10.04.2017

Socio-political attitudes in Ternopil

  • The leader of the trust rating among national politicians in Ternopil is Anatolii Hrytsenko. He is trusted by 40% of respondents and not trusted by 52%. He is the only politician on the list whose level of trust has increased compared to last year; for all others it has declined.
    Andriy Sadovyi is trusted by 28% and not trusted by 66%; Oleh Tiahnybok — 28% trust, 68% distrust; Yuliia Tymoshenko — 25% and 72% respectively; Andrii Parubii — 21% and 80%; Oleh Liashko — 21% and 77%; Petro Poroshenko — 20% and 77%; Mikheil Saakashvili — 18% and 74%; Volodymyr Groysman — 16% and 78%; Yurii Boyko is trusted by only 2% and distrusted by 78%.
    Arsenii Yatseniuk is the leader of the distrust rating among Ternopil residents (87% do not trust him, 9% do).
  • The leader of the party rating is Svoboda. 13.3% of those who intend to vote are ready to support it. 11.7% support Batkivshchyna, 10.8% support BPP Solidarity, 9.6% support Civic Position, 8.9% support Samopomich, and 8.2% support the Radical Party. Ratings of other parties are below 3%. 19% are undecided. 73% of respondents say they are ready to participate in parliamentary elections.
  • The leader of the presidential race in Ternopil is Yuliia Tymoshenko. 14.5% of those who intend to vote are ready to support her. Petro Poroshenko and Anatolii Hrytsenko each have 12%, Oleh Liashko and Oleh Tiahnybok — 8.8% each, Andrii Sadovyi — 8.4%, Dmytro Yarosh — 4.4%, Arsenii Yatseniuk — 3.1%, Yurii Boyko — slightly less than 1%, and Serhii Tihipko — about 0.5%. 7% are ready to vote for another candidate. Nearly 20% are undecided.
  • Svoboda is the clear leader in elections to the Ternopil City Council. 21.8% of those who would participate in voting are ready to support it. 9.8% would vote for Batkivshchyna, 8.6% for Civic Position, 7.9% for Samopomich, 6.6% for BPP Solidarity, and 6.0% for the Radical Party. Other parties score below 3%. 27.6% of voters are undecided.

Methodology

  • Audience: residents of Ternopil aged 18 and older
  • Sample: representative by age, gender, and type of settlement
  • Sample size: 600 respondents
  • Method: face-to-face interviews
  • Margin of error: no more than 4%
  • Fieldwork period: March 17–29, 2017