“Business Capital,” together with New Image Groupe, is launching a series of quick public opinion surveys on the most discussed issues in society. This survey is dedicated to Ukrainians’ readiness to participate in elections, opinions on the feasibility of online voting, and electoral preferences regarding political parties.
Source: OBOZREVATEL
According to the survey results, 47% of respondents do not support holding elections at various levels in the near future, while 36.5% approved of the idea. Another 16.5% were unable to decide.
At the same time, 47% of respondents believe that holding presidential elections should be the country’s priority, 22% think that the parliament should be re-elected first, and only 8% support prioritizing local elections. Meanwhile, almost a quarter of respondents (23%) were unable to decide on this question.
At the same time, 56% of survey participants expressed doubt that free and transparent elections can be held during the full-scale war. Only 27% of respondents are confident that elections can be conducted in the near future in compliance with all standards, while 17% were unable to decide.
Ukrainians also doubt that the electoral process can be organized safely for voters during the full-scale war — 65% of respondents are convinced that this is impossible. Only 20% believe that the election process can be conducted safely, while 15% chose “difficult to answer.”
Respondents also have a negative attitude toward the idea of online voting. Only 31% viewed this form of participation in elections positively or rather positively, while 44% viewed it rather negatively or negatively. At the same time, 18% of respondents were neutral about the idea of online elections, and another 7% could not choose any option.
Similar results were obtained when assessing attitudes toward online voting in the potential presidential elections in Ukraine: 30% of respondents chose “positive” or “rather positive,” 48% chose “rather negative” or “negative.” Another 16% selected “neutral,” and 6% chose “difficult to answer.”
More than half of respondents (50.5%) fear that online voting during the presidential elections could be used to falsify results and may also become a tool for external influence. At the same time, 36% of respondents note that online voting would allow Ukrainians living abroad, as well as military personnel on the frontlines, to participate. Meanwhile, 13.5% were undecided about the risks and benefits of online voting.
Regarding electoral preferences, respondents were asked to choose which party they would vote for in the upcoming Verkhovna Rada elections. The top three included the hypothetical parties of Valerii Zaluzhnyi (13.2%), Volodymyr Zelensky (11.1%), and Petro Poroshenko’s “European Solidarity” (8.4%). It should be noted that the party ratings differ within the margin of statistical error.
The survey was conducted online using an interactive structured questionnaire, with the link sent to potential respondents from the database (CAWI). The sample size was 800 respondents. Geography: Ukraine (excluding settlements in temporarily occupied territories of parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Kherson regions, and the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea). The statistical margin of error with a 0.95 probability does not exceed 3.54% (excluding the design effect).