Zelensky still tops presidential rating – poll

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is still in the lead in the presidential rating.

"Among the candidates, Volodymyr Zelensky would get relatively more votes, since 16.2% of all respondents and 22.7% of those who have made up their mind would have supported him," according to findings of a poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

Another 13.1% and 18.3%, respectively, would vote for former President, leader of the European Solidarity Party Petro Poroshenko, while 10.3% and 14.5% would back leader of the Batkivshchyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko.

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Other candidates would get lower support.

Poll: Details

• The survey was conducted on February 5-7 through computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) using a random selection of cell numbers.
• The sample is representative of the adult population (aged 18 and older). The survey was conducted in settlements across Ukraine with the exception of Russia-occupied Crimea and certain districts in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The study involved 2,005 respondents.
• The margin of error (with a probability of 0.95 and with a design effect of 1.1) does not exceed 2.4% for indicators close to 50%, 2.1% for indicators close to 25%, 1.5% for indicators close to 10%, and 1.1% for indicators close to 5%.