{"id":869,"date":"2012-05-16T05:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-07-05T05:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T12:55:37","slug":"recent-election-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2012\/recent-election-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on 2012 Election: Results of Recent Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are results of recent publicly available polls in Mongolia that contain questions concerning the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>The first table summarizes the results of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santmaral.mn\/en\/publications\">Sant Maral Foundation&#8217;s Politbarometer <\/a>surveys that were conducted in April every year since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The question was &#8220;If Parliamentary Elections were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-894\" title=\"Parties in the 2012 Ikh Khural Election\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election-1024x970.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election-1024x970.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next graph shows the answers to the question &#8220;If Parliamentary Elections were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?&#8221; asked in the most recent Politbarometer survey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Mongolia-Election-Update-Absolute-percent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-896\" title=\"Mongolia Election Update Absolute percent\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Mongolia-Election-Update-Absolute-percent-1024x860.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Mongolia-Election-Update-Absolute-percent-1024x860.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Mongolia-Election-Update-Absolute-percent-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next table was drawn based on the results of a survey conducted by the Social Democracy Institute (SDI), the MPRP&#8217;s research institute, in September, 2011. This survey covered only Ulaanbaatar. Total 1800 people participated in the survey. The were rumours that the survey was leaked and posted on Internet. It is still available on some news sites (<a href=\"http:\/\/ulstur.zaluu.com\/index_med.php?id=358\">In Mongolian<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election-SDI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-895\" title=\"Parties in the 2012 Ikh Khural Election SDI\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election-SDI-926x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election-SDI-926x1024.jpg 926w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Parties-in-the-2012-Ikh-Khural-Election-SDI-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;leaked&#8217; survey contained some interesting questions. For example, it asked the respondents about what factors (characteristics of parties, individual candidates or both) would be important for them when they vote in the next elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Book1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-897\" title=\"Book1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Book1-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Book1-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/Book1-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;leaked&#8217; survey also asked the respondents about what factors are important when they vote for individual candidates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/candidselect1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-898\" title=\"candidselect\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/candidselect1-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/candidselect1-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/05\/candidselect1-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compilation of survey results regarding the upcoming parliamentary election in Mongolia. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2012\/recent-election-polls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4291,307907,642],"tags":[307959],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-ikh-khural-2012","category-politics","tag-byambajav-dalaibuyan-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}