Two days before the parliamentary elections in Georgia, the results of new surveys reflecting the population’s political favorites have been published by the pro-government Imedi and opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi.
In both surveys the ruling Georgian Dream party is ahead, but in the Mtavari Arkhi-commissioned poll, it scores much less of the total vote.
The question posed to respondents in the survey was: what party would you vote for if parliamentary elections were scheduled for next week?
A poll of the opposition Mtavari Arkhi channel, prepared by IPSOS.
Answers by parties were distributed as follows, using the allocation method:
Georgian Dream – 40%
UNM and United Opposition – 33%
Strategy Agmashenebeli – 7%
European Georgia – 7%
Lelo – 4%
Labor Party – 2%
Girchi – 2%
Alliance of Patriots – 2%
United Georgia – 1%
Citizens – 1%
Other – 1%
Allocation is a way of counting votes in which the respondent does not openly name a favorite candidate, but analysts guess who a respondent will vote for.
IPSOS conducted the survey between 17 to 27 October. A total of 2000 respondents were interviewed throughout Georgia. The margin of error is +/- 2.2%.
A poll of the pro-government TV channel Imedi, by Public Opinion Strategies
When asked ‘who you would vote for if the parliamentary elections were held today’, the votes were distributed as follows:
● Georgian Dream – 56%
● UNM and United Opposition – 19.9%
● Alliance of Patriots – 4.6%
● New Georgia – 4.5%
● European Georgia – 4.3%
● Lelo – 3.9%
● Girchi – 3.0%
● Labor Party – 2.2%
● Democratic movement United Georgia – 1.6%
As reported by Imedi, Public Opinion Strategies conducted the survey using the direct interview method from October 9 to 20 and interviewed 1,518 respondents.
