Current President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky would receive the greatest support in the presidential elections if they were held in the second half of April this year, according to the all-Ukrainian Omnibus poll conducted form April 16 to April 22 by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
According to the results of the poll, he would receive 31.4% of the votes of those who are going to vote and have made their choice. In second place is fifth President of Ukraine (2014-2019), leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko, who was supported by 18.1% of respondents. Leader of the Batkivschyna party Yulia Tymoshenko would be supported by 11.9%, leader of the Strength and Honor party Ihor Smeshko would receive 10.4%, and leader of the Opposition Platform – For Life party Yuriy Boiko would be supported by 9.6%% of respondents.
Some 5.3% of respondents would vote for leader of the Ukrainian Strategy party Volodymyr Groysman, 5% for former MP Yevhen Murayev, 4% for leader of the Radical party Oleh Liashko, and 1.2% of respondents would vote for leader of the Ukrainian Perspective Bloc Oleksandr Vilkul. The rest of the candidates would not have collected more than 0.1% of the vote each.
In the regional context, support for Tymoshenko and Liashko in the east of Ukraine, Boiko in the west and Groysman in the south, Vilkul in the center and west of the country is significantly less (more than half of the indicators for Ukraine as a whole). Much more support is expressed for Boiko and Murayev in the east and for Vilkul in the south of Ukraine.
At the same time, support for Zelensky in different macroregions of Ukraine is relatively uniform (from 30% in the east to 32.8% in the south of the country). Poroshenko has support of 10.8% in the south, 13.2% in the east, 19.9% in the center and 24.8% in the west of Ukraine.
Of the total number of respondents, 12.5% would not go to the polls, 1.7% intend to spoil the ballot, 10.3% found it difficult to answer, and 0.9% refused to answer.
The poll was conducted among 2,003 respondents over 18 years of age in all government-controlled regions using computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI). The statistical error does not exceed 2.4% for indicators close to 50%, and 1.1% for indicators close to 5%.
