A total of 26.4 percent of Ukrainians who will vote in the presidential election in Ukraine on March 31 are planning to support showman Volodymyr Zelensky, who is followed by incumbent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (18 percent) and Batkivschyna leader Yulia Tymoshenko (13.8 percent), according to the results of a poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on February 8-20, 2019.
Additionally, among respondents who have decided to vote in the election, 10.9 percent are prepared to support Yuriy Boiko, candidate of the Opposition Platform – For Life party, 6.4 percent Anatoliy Hrytsenko, leader of the Civil Position party, 6.3 percent Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko, and 3.1 percent Opposition Bloc – Party of Peace and Development candidate Oleksandr Vilkul. The remaining candidates would receive less than 3 percent of the vote each.
Of the total number of those polled, 8.3 percent would not vote in the election, 30.5 percent were undecided regarding their vote, and 4.4 percent would scratch out all the candidates or spoil their ballot.
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology polled 2,042 people in 110 populated localities throughout all regions of Ukraine, excluding occupied Crimea and the areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions outside Kyiv’s control, by means of face-to-face interviews.
