{"id":1443148,"date":"2026-09-23T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/presidential-ratings-zelensky-loses-to-zaluzhny-poroshenko-in-top-three\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:02:13","slug":"presidential-ratings-zelensky-loses-to-zaluzhny-poroshenko-in-top-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/presidential-ratings-zelensky-loses-to-zaluzhny-poroshenko-in-top-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential ratings: Zelensky loses to Zaluzhny, Poroshenko in top three"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the Ukrainian presidential election were held in the second half of September 2026, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Valeriy Zaluzhnyy would receive the most votes. Petro Poroshenko is also among the top three.<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.1% of all respondents, or 23.0% of those who would vote and have made their choice, would vote for Volodymyr Zelenskyy; 19.0% and 22.9%, respectively, would vote for Valeriy Zaluzhnyy. 8.9% of all respondents, or 10.7% of those who would vote and have made their choice, respectively, are ready to vote for Petro Poroshenko.<\/p>\n

This is followed by Kirill Budanov (7.9% and 9.5%, respectively), Andrey Beletsky (7.2% and 8.7%), Mikhail Fedorov (6.3% and 7.6%) and Dmitry Razumkov (5.7% and 6.9%).<\/p>\n

Oleksandr Usyk was supported by 2.7% of all respondents and 3.2% of those who would vote and have decided, while Yulia Tymoshenko received the support of 2.5% and 3.0%, respectively. Meanwhile, 8.5% of respondents were undecided, 7.2% would not vote, and 1.2% would spoil their ballot.<\/p>\n

In a hypothetical second round of the Ukrainian presidential election between Valeriy Zaluzhny and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 46.1% of all respondents would vote for Valeriy Zaluzhnyy and 28.0% for Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Among those who voted and made their choice, the corresponding figures are 62.2% and 37.8%.<\/p>\n

In the pairing of Kirill Budanov and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 35.6% of all respondents would vote for Kirill Budanov, while 26.9% would vote for Volodymyr Zelenskyy; among those who took part in the vote and made their choice, the corresponding figures were 57.0% and 43.0%.<\/p>\n

In the Volodymyr Zelenskyy-Mykhailo Fedorov pairing, 31.7% of all respondents would vote for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, while 33.6% would vote for Mykhailo Fedorov. Among those who took part in the vote and made their choice, the respective figures were 48.5% and 51.5%.<\/p>\n

The research company ” Sociopolis<\/a> ” conducted an all-Ukrainian public opinion poll to determine the attitudes of the Ukrainian population towards current socio-political issues.<\/p>\n

The field stage of the survey will be conducted from September 16 to 21, 2026.
The survey method was a CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviews) telephone interview based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers (with random generation of phone numbers).<\/p>\n

The target audience is residents of Ukraine over 18 years of age, with the exception of residents of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, certain areas of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, and other temporarily occupied territories where there was no mobile service from Ukrainian operators at the time of the survey.<\/p>\n

Residents of Ukraine who were outside of Ukraine at the time of the survey were not included in the general population (object of the study).<\/p>\n

Sample size: 1002 respondents.<\/p>\n

The theoretical statistical error of the representativeness of the proportion of a feature with a confidence level of 0.95 and without taking into account the design effect does not exceed:
\u2022\u2060 \u20603.1% \u2013 for data close to 50%;
\u2022\u2060 \u20602.7% \u2013 for data close to 25% and 75%;
\u2022\u2060 \u20602.5% \u2013 for data close to 20% and 80%;
\u2022\u2060 \u20602.2% \u2013 for data close to 15% and 85%;
\u2022\u2060 \u20601.9% \u2013 for data close to 10% and 90%;
\u2022\u2060 \u20601.4% \u2013 for data close to 5% and 95%. <\/p>\n

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If the Ukrainian presidential election were held in the second half of September 2026, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Valeriy Zaluzhnyy would receive the most votes. Petro Poroshenko is also among the top three. 19.1% of all respondents, or 23.0% of those who would vote and have made their choice, would vote for Volodymyr Zelenskyy; 19.0% and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1337490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76894],"class_list":["post-1443148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}