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Holness’ JLP surges ahead in the polls
The undecided population has made the expected decline as the country gets closer to election day, dropping from 13 percent in November to 9 percent this time around, with all of those persons moving to the JLP.
The persons who say they will not vote also declined by two percentage points in the past month with the JLP again the beneficiary of that switch.
For the persons who say they will vote JLP, 34 percent say that’s because of tradition, 19 percent say Holness deserves a chance, while 18 percent say the party is better than the PNP.
An almost equal number of persons – 36 percent say they will vote PNP because of tradition, 16 percent say it would do a better job of managing the affairs of the country and 10 percent say the PNP is better than the JLP.
Of the persons who are undecided or will not vote, 24 percent are not interested in politics, 15 percent say neither of the two major political parties has helped them as individuals, and a combined 26 percent say neither the PNP nor the JLP has helped the country and it will make no difference which is running the affairs of the State.
The latest poll has a sample size of 1,008 and was conducted in all 63 constituencies across Jamaica.
