(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Almost half of Russians would vote for current prime minister Vladimir Putin or current head of state Dmitry Medvedev in the next presidential election, according to a poll by the Yury Levada Analytical Center. 27 per cent of respondents would support Putin in the next election, while 20 per cent would re-elect Medvedev.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Almost half of Russians would vote for current prime minister Vladimir Putin or current head of state Dmitry Medvedev in the next presidential election, according to a poll by the Yury Levada Analytical Center. 27 per cent of respondents would support Putin in the next election, while 20 per cent would re-elect Medvedev.
Communist Party (KPRF) leader Gennady Zyuganov is far behind with five per cent, followed by Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky with four per cent, and Russian Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov of A Just Russia with one per cent. 43 per cent of respondents are undecided.
Russian voters renewed the State Duma in December 2007. United Russia (YR)—whose candidate list was headed by then president Putin—secured 64.1 per cent of the vote and 315 of the legislature’s 450 seats. On that same month, Putin endorsed Medvedev as a presidential candidate, and Medvedev said it would be of the "utmost importance" to have Putin as prime minister.
In March 2008, Medvedev easily won Russia’s presidential election with 70.28 per cent of the vote. In May, Medvedev was sworn in as president. His nomination of Putin as prime minister was confirmed by the State Duma in a 392-56 vote.
The next presidential election is scheduled for March 2012. Both Putin and Medvedev are eligible to run as candidates.
In March, YR chairman Andrei Vorobyov refused to assure that Putin would be the party’s presidential candidate in 2012, saying, "Putin is our leader, and this fact speaks for itself. As far as his nomination is concerned, this process is always complicated and requires more discussions and preparations."
Polling Data
If the presidential election took place this Sunday, who would you vote for? (Open-ended)
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Apr. 2010
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Nov. 2009
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Aug. 2008
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Vladimir Putin
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27%
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27%
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33%
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Dmitry Medvedev
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20%
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18%
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14%
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Gennady Zyuganov
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5%
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4%
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4%
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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4%
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3%
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3%
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Sergei Mironov
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1%
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–
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–
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Aman Tuleyev
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–
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1%
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n.a.
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Other mentions
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1%
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2%
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n.a.
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Other / Not sure / Would not vote
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43%
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45%
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46%
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Source: Yury Levada Analytical Center
Methodology: Interviews with 1,600 Russian adults, conducted from Apr. 16 to Apr. 19, 2010. No margin of error was provided.
