Party preferences in late November and early December 2002

All respondents having the right to vote were traditionally asked an open question (i.e. without a list of political parties being used) investigating which party they would vote for if an election to the Chamber of Deputies took place the following week. The structure of the answers given is summarised in the table. The question ‘Imagine that an election to the Chamber of Deputies is held next week. Would you participate?’ was answered yes by 68% of those surveyed having the right to vote (‘definitely yes’ by 34% and ‘probably yes’ by 34%), while 26% said no (15% ‘probably not’ and 11% ‘definitely not’) and 6% did not know.