This survey was carried out December 12–18, 2019 with a representative sample of all Russian urban and rural residents. The sample comprised 1608 people age 18 or older from 137 localities in 50 regions of the Russian Federation. The survey was conducted as a personal interview in respondents’ homes. The answer distribution is presented as percentages of the number of participants along with data from previous surveys.
The statistical error of these studies for a selection of 1600 people (with a probability of 0.95) does not exceed:
3.4% for indicators around 50%
2.9% for indicators around 25%/75%
2.0% for indicators around 10%/90%
1.5% for indicators around 5%/95%
IF THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WERE TO BE HELD NEXT SUNDAY, WOULD YOU PARTICIPATE? IF YES, WHICH OF THE CURRENT POLITICIANS WOULD YOU VOTE FOR? (respondents named the politician for whom they would vote themselves and could only name one person; as a percentage of those surveyed; ranked in descending order according to December 2019)
| Apr. 14 | Jan. 16 | Apr. 17 | Jan. 18 | Mar. 19 | Jul. 19 | Dec. 19 | |
| Vladimir Putin | 49 | 53 | 48 | 57 | 41 | 40 | 38 |
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Pavel Grudinin | – | – | – | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Gennady Zyuganov | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Alexei Navalny | <1 | 1 | 1 | <1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Dmitry Medvedev | <1 | <1 | 1 | <1 | <1 | <1 | 1 |
| Sergey Shoygu | 1 | 2 | 1 | <1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Other | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| I don’t know whom I would vote for | 21 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 19 | 23 | 20 |
| I wouldn’t vote | 10 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 19 | 22 |
| I don’t know whether or not I would vote | 8 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 |
IF THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WERE TO BE HELD NEXT SUNDAY, WOULD YOU PARTICIPATE? IF YES, WHICH OF THE CURRENT POLITICIANS WOULD YOU VOTE FOR? (respondents named the politician for whom they would vote themselves and could only name one person; as a percentage of those surveyed who were ready to vote at the time of the survey; ranked in descending order according to December 2019)
| Apr. 14 | Jan. 16 | Apr. 17 | Jan. 18 | Mar. 19 | Jul. 19 | Dec. 19 | |
| Vladimir Putin | 60 | 66 | 62 | 70 | 55 | 54 | 53 |
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| Pavel Grudinin | – | – | – | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Gennady Zyuganov | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Alexei Navalny | <1 | 1 | 1 | <1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Dmitry Medvedev | <1 | <1 | 1 | <1 | 1 | <1 | 1 |
| Sergey Shoygu | 1 | 2 | 1 | <1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Other | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| I don’t know whom I would vote for | 26 | 21 | 25 | 15 | 25 | 31 | 27 |
The sum of the figures in the columns may deviate from 100% by ±2 due to rounding. This is an acceptable degree of deviation.
Translated by Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (formerly Monterey Institute of International Studies).
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