Opinion Poll on Kaohsiung Mayoral Election

Opinion Poll on Kaohsiung Mayoral Election

Source: TVBS

October 5, 2010

1.     Will you vote in the Kaohsiung mayoral election?

	2010/5/27	2010/7/29	2010/8/10	2010/9/2	2010/9/28
Definitely	64%	54%	60%	61%	60%
Probably	23%	25%	21%	23%	22%
Not sure	6%	8%	8%	6%	7%
Definitely not	7%	12%	11%	10%	11%

2.     If you were to vote tomorrow, which of the following candidates would you vote for?

	2010/5/27	2010/7/29	2010/8/10	2010/9/2	2010/9/28
DPP Chen Chu	62%	43%	46%	46%	42%
Independent Yang Chiu-hsing	--	26%	28%	22%	21%
KMT Huang Chao-shun	26%	16%	14%	16%	18%
Undecided	12%	15%	12%	16%	19%

3.     Are you satisfied with the performance of the following candidates in responding to the recent flashflooding in Kaohsiung City and County?

	Kaohsiung County Executive Yang Chiu-hsing	Kaohsiung City Mayor Chen Chu
Very satisfied	4%	10%
Somewhat satisfied	31%	23%
Somewhat dissatisfied	13%	20%
Very dissatisfied	6%	13%
No opinion	46%	34%

4.     Do you think that the recent flashflooding should be considered a natural disaster or do you think the government should share the blame for failing to implement the necessary flood prevention measures?

Natural disaster	52%
Failure of flood prevention	30%
No opinion	18%

5.     Which of the following candidates do you think is mot capable of implementing the necessary flood prevention measures?

DPP Chen Chu	29%
Independent Yang Chiu-hsing	24%
KMT Huang Chao-shun	10%
Don’t know	37%

This survey was conducted from 18:30 to 22:00 between September 27 and 28, with 1,110 people successfully interviewed.  The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 2.9 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

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