NNN/Bluedot Poll: Holness & Golding Improve Favourability Ahead of General Elections

The leaders of the country’s two major political parties have improved their favourability rankings headed into this year’s general elections.

That’s according to the latest Nationwide/Bluedot polls, powered by Total Tools.

While Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, holds a commanding lead in net favourability of 11 per cent, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has seen his net favourability move into positive territory over the last three months.

Ricardo Brooks has the details.

The Bluedot pollsters asked 1,618 registered voters whether they had a positive or negative opinion of the country’s two main political leaders.

Forty-two per cent of them had a positive view of Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness. 31 per cent said they had a negative view of him. That’s a net positive rating of 11 per cent.

Holness has also seen his favourability increase by five points since February. It’s up from 37 per cent.

Golding has also managed to lift his head above water. In February, the Opposition Leader was down 3 per cent in terms of his favourability.

He’s reversed that trend and is now in positive territory by 3 per cent. Thirty per cent of voters have a positive view of Markie G. Twenty-seven per cent see him in a negative light.

All those movements are outside the poll’s margin of error of +/- 2.3 per cent.

Forty-three per cent of registered voters have no opinion of Golding. That’s significantly more than the 28 per cent who have no opinion of Holness.

It’s a similar story of improvement for the political parties the two men lead. The Jamaica Labour Party’s, JLP, net positive rating is 8 per cent, while the People’s National Party’s, PNP, net positive rating is within the margin of error at per cent.

Thirty-nine per cent of voters say they have a positive view of the JLP, while 31 per cent of voters have a negative view of the governing party. Thirty per cent are unsure.

Thirty per cent have a positive view of the PNP, and 29 per cent have a negative view of the opposition party.

The PNP has moved up four points in positive rating since February, and the JLP has improved by the exact margin over the same period.

But more voters, 41 per cent, say they have no opinion of the PNP, that’s against the 30 per cent who say the same of the JLP.

That no opinion number is down by four and five points respectively, for both parties over the last three months.

The data suggests Jamaicans are slowly coming off the fence and making up their minds.

But will they….

Or will they come out in their numbers and show…