NNN/Bluedot Poll: Confidence in JLP to Tackle Ja’s Problems Rise Across Age Groups

Confidence in the Jamaica Labour Party’s, JLP, ability to tackle the country’s problems has risen across all age groups over the last three months.

Voters aged 18 to 24 were most confident in the governing party, with 61 per cent saying the JLP was best placed to address the country’s problems. That’s up 16 points since February.

Mahiri Stewart has those findings.

The conventional wisdom says the JLP has strength among young people. These polls say that may well be true. The party holds a massive 37 point lead over the People’s National Party, PNP, with voters between 18-and-24-years old.

Sixty-one per cent of this cohort chose the JLP as best suited to govern, 24 per cent chose the PNP.

The governing party is also showing strength with voters 25-34 to years old, where they lead the PNP 47 per cent to 27 per cent. The JLP has climbed 12-points in the last three months with this age group.

The PNP draws even with the JLP among voters 35-to-44, where both parties are tied on 35 per cent support.

The JLP breaks out again with voters 45-to-54, moving ahead of the PNP by 24 points with this middle aged demographic, registering 57 per cent support when it comes to confidence, while the PNP nets 33 per cent.

The PNP manages to narrow the confidence gap with voters 55-to-64, but the JLP still leads by 12 points, 53 per cent to the opposition’s 41 per cent.

Most notably, voters over 65 are expressing significant levels of confidence in the JLP’s governing ability, giving the party a near 30 point lead over the PNP, 56 per cent to 27 per cent.

The pollsters say the JLP’s strength across the generational spectrum may be driven by national developments.

The pollsters were in the field amid news of the country’s 40 per cent decrease in murders, the public interest surrounding the opening of the Morant Bay Urban Centre, and the government’s repeated touting of the unemployment rate.