Were Ukrainian parliamentary elections held at the end of June, most Ukrainians would vote for Oleh Liashko's Radical Party.
Some 12.5 percent of all the respondents aged above 18 said they would vote for the Radical Party; Batkivschyna can count on the backing of 9.3 percent of Ukrainians; Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR, 7.2 percent; and Anatoliy Hrytsenko’s Civil Position, 6.1 percent, according to the findings of a nationwide poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology (KIIS) on June 20-July 2.
At the same time, a number of parties would fail to reach the 5 percent election threshold, according to the poll findings. For example, Petro Poroshenko’s Solidarity Party can secure the support of 3.4 percent Ukrainians; Svoboda and Strong Ukraine, 3.1 percent each. Some 2.7 percent are ready to cast their votes for the Communist Party; 1.6 percent for the Regions Party; 1.2 percent for Andriy Sadovy’s Samopomich, and 1 percent for the Right Sector.
The other parties were supported in total by 3 percent respondents.
Furthermore, 3 percent would cross out all the parties and ruin their ballot. Some 17.8 percent have decided not to go to the polls, and 25.2 percent were undecided.
The poll also suggested possible electoral preferences for the undecided and those who would not go to the polls. In that case, about 54 percent of all the respondents would take part in the voting process. Votes would be distributed as follows: Liashko’s Radical Party – 23.1 percent, Batkivschyna – 17.2 percent, UDAR – 13.3 percent, Civil Position – 11.2 percent, Solidarity – 6.2 percent, and Svoboda and Strong Ukraine – 5.7 percent each. Those falling short of the 5 percent threshold would be the Communist Party (4.9 percent), the Party of Regions (2.9 percent), Samopomich (2.3 percent) and the Right Sector (1.9 percent).
The KMIS poll was conducted for a client on June 20 – July 2 by personally interviewing 2,040 respondents residing in 110 cities across Ukraine (except Crimea), using a stochastic-sampling technique with a quota-based selection at the last stage, representative of the Ukrainian population aged above 18.
