Ipsos poll shows decrease in ANC and DA support ahead of 8 May

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Ipsos poll shows decrease in ANC and DA support ahead of 8 May

29 April 2019 2:51 PM

The latest Ipsos poll suggests that the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC) may be in trouble.

Ipsos conducted the poll between March and April and used a demographically representative sample of over 3,600 people.

Read: Why Ipsos polls shows increased support for ANC

According to the results, the ANC’s support has dropped from 61% in its March poll to 56.9% in April, and the DA has dropped even further from 18% in March to just 15% in April.

The Economic Freedom Fighters has remained steady at 9.5 %.

Ipsos director Mari Harris speaks to Clement Manyathela on the Xolani Gwala Show about the findings.

What we did is give everyone partaking in the poll a ballot paper which resembles the ballot paper that they will get on 8 May and they had to indicate their own choices. Based on that, we used the results and filtered them by registered voters and projected them to the IEC figures.
— Mari Harris, Director - Ipsos

Those figures show a little less support for both the ANC and the DA.
— Mari Harris, Director - Ipsos

She says that not all registered voters will vote on 8 May and thus their poll was a medium turnout scenario.

Listen below to the full interview:

Written by: Matshepo Sehloho

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