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Fine Gael, Varadkar see drop in support in new opinion poll

There has been a drop in support for Fine Gael in the latest opinion poll. The Sunday Times/Behav...
Jack Quann
Jack Quann

09.16 16 Jun 2019


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Fine Gael, Varadkar see drop i...

Fine Gael, Varadkar see drop in support in new opinion poll

Jack Quann
Jack Quann

09.16 16 Jun 2019


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There has been a drop in support for Fine Gael in the latest opinion poll.

The Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes poll shows the popularity of the party has fallen by five points to 23%.

While Fianna Fáil has seen no change and remains on 28%.

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Sinn Féin is on 12%, down seven, while The Green Party has gained support by six to 11%.

The Labour Party is up one point to 5%, and Independents and Others are also up four to 13%.

Satisfaction with the Government has dropped four points to 34%.

opinion poll Source: Behaviour & Attitudes

While satisfaction with the main party leaders has seen a drop for all - except one.

Leo Varadkar's satisfaction rating is at 39% (down three), Micheál Martin's at 46% (down two) and Mary Lou McDonald fell seven places to a rating of 32%.

The only main party leader to increase his satisfaction rating was Labour's Brendan Howlin - up one on 39%.

The results are based upon a representative sample of 900 Irish voters with a margin of error of 3.3%.

The poll was conducted on an in-home, face-to-face basis between May 31st to June 11th.

Sunday Times political editor Stephen O'Brien said this comes on the back of the recent elections.

"Sinn Féin had a bad day out in Europe, they had a particularly bad day out in the local elections - with less than 10% of the vote.

"So they are in the middle of a soul-searching process".

"Perhaps the most interesting number in this poll is that The Green Party is up six points to 11% from the finding in The Sunday Times poll of last month.

"In the local elections, The Greens got 5.5% - and this is certainly a huge advance on that.

"They've enjoyed a lot of media coverage on the back of winning two European seats".


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