Saturday, October 22, 2011

New poll reveals ODM still favourite



By Athman Amran
About half of all Kenyans belong to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party, a poll by the Centre for Multi-Party Democracy (CMD) and Infotrak Harris indicates.
The poll shows ODM has 45 per cent popularity among those interviewed, followed by Party of National Unity (PNU) with 27 per cent. ODM-Kenya and Ford-Kenya ties at position three with eight per cent each.
Narc-Kenya has four per cent, United Democratic Movement (UDM), three per cent, Kanu and New Ford-K, two per cent each and Narc, one per cent.
However, the poll indicates that only 23 per cent of those surveyed mentioned that they were registered members of a political party with ODM commanding the majority.
"Eighty-two per cent of those who mentioned they belong to ODM indicated they are registered members," Infotrak CEO Angela Ambitho said at the CMD offices in Nairobi yesterday. She was accompanied by CMD Chairman Justin Muturi.
The poll also indicates that most registered members of an individual party come from Nyanza, with North Eastern region recording the lowest with four percent.
Nyanza has 46 per cent registration, followed by Eastern (25 per cent), Nairobi (24 per cent), Western (22 per cent), Central (18 per cent), Rift Valley and Coast (10 per cent) and North Eastern (four per cent).
Asked which party they trust, Majority of those polled said ODM (44.2 per cent) followed by PNU (32.3 percent), Narc-Kenya (7.1 per cent) ODM-Kenya (3.5 per cent), UDM (3.2 per cent), Kanu and FordeKenya (2.6 per cent each) and Ford-People (2.4 per cent).
"More than half of the membership of any political party in Kenya today do not trust the party they belong to," Ms Ambitho said.
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