ANC support increase ahead of elections – IRR Poll
IRR snap poll: ANC up to 56%, DA and EFF down.
A NEW poll by the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) released recently, shows that the governing ANC’s support has increased ahead of the 2019 general elections, while the country’s two biggest opposition parties, the DA and EFF, have lost ground.
According to the poll results, the ANC’s support in December comes in at 56%, up from 52% in September, while the DA’s support has declined to 18 % from 23% in September; and the EFF is on 11%, down from 13% in September.
Gareth van Onselen, head of politics and governance at the SAIRR, has emphasised that the poll is not a prediction, but is rather “a snapshot in time” of the electorate between 26 November and 4 December, 2018.
“The poll was conducted among 1 017 registered voters and was ‘fully demographically representative’. The IRR will undertake a full political survey every quarter. The next full quarterly survey will be conducted in February 2019, ahead of the May 2019 election.
The snap poll was in the field during the last week of November and the first week of December. It comprised three sets of questions: Voting intention, party favourability (ANC, DA, EFF) and, finally, a question on the strength of support for Patricia de Lille’s proposed new political party, when forced to choose between it and the four biggest political parties,” he said.
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