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Ethnic Estonians favor election blocks, Russian-speakers Center in local elections
Of the Estonian voter segment, 29.2% would vote for election blocks or
independent candidates, 25.8% would vote for the Reform Party, 14.8% would
favor the Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE), 12.6% would cast their
vote for the Social Democratic Party (SDE) and 9.3% would vote for the Center
Party. The 4.6% rating of the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRL) and the
combined 3.6% rating of other parties remained below the 5% election threshold.
Among Russian-speakers, Center Party continued to be the uncontested
number one with 71.1%, followed by election blocks and independent candidates
with 10.9% and SDE with 8.8%. The ratings of the rest of the parties in the
Russian-speaking segment were lower than the 5% election threshold, with 3.8%
saying they would vote for the Reform Party, 3.7% favoring EKRE, 1% voting for
other parties and 0.7% in favor of IRL.
A total of 28.6% of respondents were unsure of their preferences.
The answers of the people who listed "no preference" as to
party identification were eliminated from the outcome to make it as
comparable as possible with the outcome of local elections held during the
survey period.
Kantar Emor interviewed 1,476 voting-age citizens of ages 16-74 over the
internet for the survey from August 11 through 17.