Citizen political activities before the parliamentary election

Shortly after this year’s parliamentary election, the Public Opinion Research Centre examined political activities of respondents in the pre-election period. The survey investigated, inter alia, whether people had attempted to persuade someone to vote for a certain party or candidate (14% of respondents did this at least sometimes) and whether they had expressed their support for a particular party or candidate by visiting a meeting, putting up posters etc (12% of respondents did this at least sometimes). In this respect, supporters of the KSCM displayed the greatest activity, whereas sympathisers of the Coalition and the CSSD took a rather passive position. The survey also examined whether, during the election campaign, respondents had been contacted directly by a candidate or a representative of a political party, in an attempt to persuade them to vote for that particular party – 28% of those polled answered ‘yes’.