Yuliya Tymoshenko, leader of the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivschyna (Fatherland) party, has been on the top in presidential ratings in Ukraine, being followed by such candidates as showman Volodymyr Zelensky, the leader of the Civil Position party Anatoliy Hrytsenko, the leader of the Opposition Platform — For Life bloc Yuriy Boiko, and the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko.
This has been established as a result of an all-Ukrainian opinion poll jointly conducted by the Ukrainian Oleksandr Yaremenko Institute for Social Research and the Social Monitoring Center from December 1 to 10, 2018.
Some 14.8 percent of those polled said they would vote for Tymoshenko in the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine, which are due on March 31, 2019.
The other candidates have the following ratings: 8.8 percent for Zelensky, 8.6 percent for Hrytsenko, 8.3 percent for Boyko, and 8.1 percent for Poroshenko.
At the same time, 14.1 percent of those polled could not provide an answer and another 11.8 percent said they would not go to vote at all.
Among the respondents who have made up their mind and are going to cast their votes in the elections in March, 20 percent would vote for Tymoshenko, 11.9 percent would vote for Zelensky, 11.6 percent would vote for Hrytsenko, 11.1 percent would vote for Boiko, and 10.9 percent would vote for Poroshenko. Some 3.2 percent of those polled said they would vote for some other candidates.
A total of 2,198 people were polled in face-to-face interviews across Ukraine for the exception of the temporarily occupied territories. The sample standard deviation is not more than 2.1 percent.
