27 August 2021. VCIOM presents the data of a survey devoted to the attitudes of Russians towards leaders of party lists in the State Duma elections.
United Russia heads the popularity rating of the party lists (mean value across all the leaders of the top five - 64%); it is followed with a huge gap by KPRF (31%), LDPR (30%), A Just Russia – Patriots – For Truth (28%), and Yabloko (24%).
Of those who are going to cast their vote in the State Duma election, 46% (mean value across all representatives of the top five parties) trust the leaders of the United Russia party list; 17% trust the KPRF candidates; 16%, A Just Russia; 14%, LDPR; 12%, Rodina. Most of those who are going to take part in the State Duma elections have unfavorable views regarding the leaders of the Yabloko party list (12%).
The top five most popular leaders in the party lists are as follows: S. Shoygu (95%, United Russia), S. Lavrov (91%, United Russia), V. Zhirinovsky (96%, LDPR), T.Bulanova (80%, Rodina), G.Zyuganov (90%, KPRF).
In terms of positive perceptions of those who are going to cast their vote in the elections, the top five politicians include: S.Lavrov (73% of positive perceptions), S.Shoygu (69%), V.Zhirinovsky (44%), T.Bulanova (42%), and G.Zyuganov (41%).
Russian nationwide VCIOM-Sputnik survey was conducted on August 26, 2021. A total of 1,200 of Russians aged 18 and older took part in the survey. Results are based on telephone interviews. Stratified dual-frame random sample based on a complete list of Russian landline and mobile phone numbers was used. The data were weighted according to selection probability and social and demographic characteristics. The margin of error at a 95% confidence level does not exceed 2.8%. In addition to sampling error, minor changes to the wording of questions and different circumstances arising during the fieldwork can introduce bias into the survey.
Popularity rating (Popularity ratings of the leaders in the party lists are calculated as a mean value between leaders in the federal party lists. In case a party has more than five leaders in the federal list, only the first five persons were tested, %) | |
| Popularity |
United Russia (S. Shoygu, S.Lavrov, D.Protsenko, A.Kuznetsova, E.Shmeleva) | 64 |
KPRF (G.Zyuganov, S.Savitskaya, Yu.Afonin, A.Klychkov, I.Melnikov) | 31 |
LDPR (V.Zhirinovsky, L.Slutsky, S.Karginov, Ya.Nilov, V.Sipyagin) | 30 |
A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth (S.Mironov, Z.Prilepin, G.Semigin, A.Babakov) | 28 |
Yabloko (N.Rybakov) | 24 |
Rodina (A. Zhuravlev, A. Bogatov, T. Bulanova, O.Pakholkov, D.Bulykin) | 22 |
New People (A. Nechaev, S. Avksentyeva) | 17 |
Green alternative (V. Dayneko, S. Kalyagina, K.Kachaeva, V. Betekhtin, A.Dolgushin) | 15 |
Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice (V.Burakov, V.Vorozhtsov, A.Shirokov) | 12 |
Communists of Russia (M.Suraykin, R.Khugaev, I.Ulyanov, S. Malinkovich, Ya.Sidorov) | 11 |
Russian Patry of Freedom and Justice (M.Shevchenko, D.Potapenko, M.Kukushkin, R.Kurbanov, G.Klimenko)
| 7 |
Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" (A.Nagibin, S.Revin, S.Shakhmatov, R.Shagapova, A.Kudzagova)
| 6 |
Civic Platform (R. Shaikhutdinov, S.Milisky, V.Vakaryuk) | 3 |
Party of Growth (I.Mironova, E. Ulianova, K.Bezuglova) | 3 |
Rating of attitudes among those who report to be willing to take part in elections | ||
(Ratings of attitudes towards party list leaders are calculated as a mean value in terms of attitudes towards the leaders in the federal party lists. In case a party has more than five leaders in the federal list, only the first five persons were tested. Data presented reflect responses of those who say they are willing to take part in elections, %) | ||
| % of those who say they are going to take part in the elections | |
| I know and I have positive attitudes, trust | I know and I have negative attitudes, distrust |
United Russia (S. Shoygu, S.Lavrov, D.Protsenko, A.Kuznetsova, E.Shmeleva) | 46 | 8 |
KPRF (G.Zyuganov, S.Savitskaya, Yu.Afonin, A.Klychkov, I.Melnikov) | 17 | 6 |
A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth (S.Mironov, Z.Prilepin, G.Semigin, A.Babakov) | 16 | 6 |
LDPR (V.Zhirinovsky, L.Slutsky, S.Karginov, Ya.Nilov, V.Sipyagin) | 14 | 9 |
Rodina (A. Zhuravlev, A. Bogatov, T. Bulanova, O.Pakholkov, D.Bulykin) | 12 | 3 |
New People (A. Nechaev, S. Avksentyeva) | 11 | 2 |
Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice (V.Burakov, V.Vorozhtsov, A.Shirokov) | 8 | 2 |
Yabloko (N.Rybakov) | 7 | 12 |
Communists of Russia (M.Suraykin, R.Khugaev, I.Ulyanov, S. Malinkovich, Ya.Sidorov) | 5 | 2 |
Green alternative (V. Dayneko, S. Kalyagina, K.Kachaeva, V. Betekhtin, A.Dolgushin) | 4 | 3 |
Russian Patry of Freedom and Justice (M.Shevchenko, D.Potapenko, M.Kukushkin, R.Kurbanov, G.Klimenko) | 4 | 1 |
Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" (A.Nagibin, S.Revin, S.Shakhmatov, R.Shagapova, A.Kudzagova) | 3 | 1 |
Party of Growth (I.Mironova, E. Ulianova, K.Bezuglova) | 2 | 0 |
Civic Platform (R. Shaikhutdinov, S.Milisky, V.Vakaryuk) | 1 | 1 |
Now I’m going to list politicians and public figures, please tell me whether you know them or not? If you do, what is your attitude towards them: positively, with trust; negatively, with distrust; or indifferently, failure to assess? (closed-ended question, one answer in each line, % of total respondents) Top five | |
| Approval rating |
S.Lavrov, United Russia | 91 |
S.Shoygu, United Russia | 95 |
V.Zhirinovsky, LDPR | 96 |
T.Bulanova, Rodina | 80 |
G.Zyuganov, KPRF | 90 |
Now I’m going to list politicians and public figures, please tell me whether you know them or not? If you do, what is your attitude towards them: positively, with trust; negatively, with distrust; or indifferently, failure to assess? (closed-ended question, one answer in each line, % of those who say they are going to take part in elections) Top five | ||
| Respondents who say they are going to take part in the elections (49%) | |
| Favorable views | Negative views |
S.Lavrov, United Russia | 73 | 10 |
S.Shoygu, United Russia | 69 | 13 |
V.Zhirinovsky, LDPR | 44 | 28 |
T.Bulanova, Rodina | 42 | 13 |
G.Zyuganov, KPRF | 41 | 23 |