All-Ukrainian civic organization «Committee of Voters of Ukraine» presents the results of all-Ukrainian sociological survey conducted by four sociological agencies:

• Kyiv International Institute of Sociology;
• Centre for social and marketing surveys «SOCIS»;
• Sociological group «RATING»;
• Razumkov Centre.

Electoral orientations of ukrainians

Ukrainians demonstrate very high level of electoral activity, around 84% of voters are ready or rather ready to participate in voting. At the same time there are 11% of those who have the opposite opinion.

Readiness to participate in the Elections of the President of Ukraine, %

24.9% of respondents are ready to support Petro Poroshenko on the Presidential elections taking place on May 25 this year. The second place goes to V.Klytschko with 8.9%,  the third place is for Yu.Tymoshenko with 8.2%. Serhii Tihipko is supported by 7.3% of voters, and the ex-governor of Kharkivska oblast Mykhailo Dobkin got 4.2%. Around 20% of voters indicate that at the moment they do not know whom to vote for or will not go to the elections. 9.7% are ready to vote «against all» candidates.

Among those who is going to come to the voting point and made a decision about whom to vote for, TOP-5 of the presidential competition would look as follows: P.Poroshenko – 36.2%, V.Klytschko is on the second place with possible 12.9% votes, the third place is taken by Yu.Tymoshenko with 12.0%. S.Tihipko and М.Dobkin who would get 10.0% and 5.3% respectively.

 
Ranking of potential candidates at the Presidential elections, %

During the survey respondents were suggested to make their own forecast on who will be the next President of Ukraine. The respondents were suggested to answer the following question: «Please, tell me, despite which candidate you personally support, who will win the elections and will become the next President of Ukraine?»

The most likely winner of the presidential elections is P.Poroshenko gaining 23.6% of votes. The win of Yu.Tymoshenko is foreseen by 8.8% of voters, and V.Klytschko got 6.6%. The win of S.Tihipko is expected by only 3.6% of surveyed Ukrainians. Around a half– 50.6% of all respondents refused to give a forecast regarding the expected President of Ukraine.

Tell me, please, despite the candidate that you support, who will win and elections will become the next President of Ukraine? %

Therefore, we can be confidents about the participation of P.Poroshenko in the second tour. Three candidates have rather equal chances to appear in the second elections round - V.Klytschko, Yu.Tymoshenko and S.Tihipko.

That is why the voting options in the second round are displayed as the following pairs:

Poroshenko – Klytschko,

Poroshenko – Tymoshenko

Poroshenko – Tihipko.

Whom would you vote for in the second round in case the following two candidates will remain……? %

Whom would you vote for in the second round in case the following two candidates will remain…? %

Whom would you vote for in the second round in case the following two candidates will remain…? %

As for the political preferences towards the political parties, the electoral orientations of Ukrainians are distributed as follows: the first place is taken by All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna («Fatherland») headed by Yu.Tymoshenko receives 15% of people’s support. The «Solidarity» Party headed by P.Poroshenko would get 14.8% of voters support. The Party «UDAR В.Klytschnko» is on the third position with 11.3%. The Party of Regions is currently supported by 10.5% of Ukrainians, while the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Radical Party of O.Liashko got 4.9% and 3.9% respectively. All-Ukrainian Union «Svoboda» («Freedom») can currently receive 3.5% of votes of Ukrainian citizens. It should be taken into account that around 30% of voters indicate that they do not know which party they will support and whether they will come to the elections on the day of the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine if they would occur in the nearest future.

Rankings of political parties, %