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Verkhovna Rada. Zelensky was looked on favorably by 33% of respondents, versus 22%, 16%, and 14% respectively for the others.
In mid-October, a KIIS poll showed that Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party had higher ratings than Zelensky’s Servant of the People party for the first time since 2019. But judging by opinion polls conducted by the Rating Group and Razumkov Center in late October, the ruling party is back on top.
According to the Rating Group’s survey, Servant of the People leads the party ratings with 20.4% support, followed by European Solidarity with 15.8%, Opposition Platform – For Life (OPZZh) with 12%, and Batkivshchyna with 10.9%. By comparison, the Razumkov Center’s poll shows 15% support for Servant of the People, 12.4% support for European Solidarity, and 7.5% support or less for OPZZh and Batkivshchyna.
Though Zelensky’s 39% trust rating puts him well ahead of other Ukrainian politicians, according to the Rating Group, 59% of those surveyed do not trust the president. By comparison, both Yulia Tymoshenko and Petro Poroshenko have anti-ratings above 70%, with only about a quarter of survey respondents saying they trust them. Another quarter said they trust OPZZh’s Yuriy Boyko, while 57% do not.
The Rating Group also found that Zelensky remains the top-ranked presidential candidate. If an election were held in the near future, 25% of decided voters would cast their ballots for the current president, 14% would vote for Poroshenko, 10% for Tymoshenko, 9.5% for Boyko, and 7.3% for former Verkhovna Rada speaker Dmytro Razumkov.
Another Razumkov Center survey shows slightly different results in a hypothetical presidential vote. Though Zelensky would still win the highest vote share (18.7%), he would be followed by Poroshenko with 12.7%, Boyko with 6.2%, and Tymoshenko with 4.1%. That said, Zelensky would still win a hypothetical run-off against Poroshenko with the support of 55.6% of decided voters.
Ukraine’s population continues to shrink, hitting 41.3 million people today, according to the State Statistics Service. Collecting data from the Kyiv-controlled area, the Service reports that for every 100 deaths, only 42 babies are born. Through September, the nation’s population suffered a net loss of 268,500 people.
An estimate of 37.3 million people was the result of a computer assisted study undertaken two years ago by Dmytro Dubilet, then Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers. The last census, conducted before the war, in 2001, counted 48.5 million people. The Digital Transformation Ministry is preparing to conduct a nationwide census in 2023.
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