NACTA Findings: Ramotar Preferred for Presidency

Aug 30, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
A tracking opinion survey on Guyana’s general elections conducted by NACTA in mid-August showed the PPP Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar is more preferred over David Granger of APNU, Khemraj Ramjattan of AFC, C.N Sharma of JFAP, and other candidates for the Presidency.
The survey also shows the incumbent PPP way ahead of its challengers in popular support and is likely to win the upcoming general elections constitutionally due by year end.
NACTA, founded in New York by Caribbean educators, has no affiliation with any political party.
It has been conducting polls regularly in Guyana, the Caribbean and other regions over the last 20 years. The latest Guyana poll was conducted to determine peoples’ preference for the Presidency, approval ratings for the President, and popular support for the political parties.
The poll randomly interviewed 420 voters to yield a demographically representative sample (45 percent Indians, 30 percent Africans, 16 percent Mixed, 8 percent Amerindians, and 1percent other races) of the population.
The survey was conducted by interviewers with many years of experience in survey interviewing and was coordinated by Vishnu Bisram, a pollster, newspaper columnist, and an educator in NY. The results of the poll were analyzed at a 95 percent significance level and a statistical sampling error of plus or minus five percentage points was found. Sampling results based on subgroups (such as Indians or Africans) have a larger sampling error of about 6 percent.
Asked who they prefer as President of Guyana among the available choices representing the varied parties, 46 percent opted for Ramotar, 23 percent chose Granger, 8 percent Ramjattan, 1 percent Sharma and less than one percent all other candidates, with 21 percent not making a choice. Mr. Sharma is the most popular and likeable among the candidates but he is not getting traction in voter support. Many voters said they would have preferred other prominent personalities as President including Robert Corbin, Moses Nagamootoo, Robert Persaud, Ralph Ramkarran, Basil Williams, Irfan Ali, Faith Harding, etc.
In terms of popular support, the PPP is polling 47 percent, followed by APNU 24 percent, AFC seven percent, JFAP one percent, other parties less than one percent, and 20 percent undecided or no response. The election is still months away and opinions could change by then.
Vishnu Bisram

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