ELECTION POLLS

LATEST POLLS

Cyprus Television station ANT1,  broadcasted (20 May) a new (last before 
the 26th May election) Cyprus Parliamentary election poll. Its results are:

PARTY			Percentage
=====			==========

DHSY 		 	31,0%
AKEL 			29,0 %
DEKO 			15,2%
EDEK 			 7,4%
KED 			 3,8%
NEO 			 2,8%
ADESOK 			 1,4%
OIKO 			 1,4%
Undecided/No answer etc  8,0%


Then so that we can have a clear comparison with 1991 elections and prior 
ANT1 polls, I have alocated the 8.1 % of undecided votes accordingly (i.e. 
proportional to each partie's power).

The results and relevant comparisons are shown in the table below:

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	     #1		 #2	           #3	 	Comparisons
PARTY	ANT1 (20 May)  ANT1 (6 May)    1991 Elect  #1 Vs #2    #1 Vs #3
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DHSY      33.70 %  	33.30 %		35.8 %	    + 0.4  %   - 2.10 %
AKEL      31.53 % 	30.60 %		30.6 %	    + 0.93 %   + 0.93 % 
DHKO      16.52 % 	14.40 %		19.5 %	    + 2.12 %   - 2.98 %
EDEK       8.04 %        9.35 %		10.9 %	    - 1.31 %   - 2.86 % 
KED        4.13 %        5.20 %		 ----	    - 1.07 %     -----
NEO        3.04 %        3.11 %      	 ----	    - 0.07 %	 -----
ADESOK     1.52 %        1.61 %      	 2.4 %	    - 0.09 %   - 0.88 %  
OIKO       1.52 %        2.37 %			    - 0.85 %     -----
	 ---------	--------
	    100 %	99.94 %
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NOTE:

1. A party needs 1.8 % to get a seat in the parliament

2. Note that the results of the elections on Sunday 26th May 1996 will be 
   broadcast live on the NET at
	
	http://www.isr.umd.edu/~pzaphiri/elections


VERITA (21 May)
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ADISOK                 1.1%  +- 0.9 =  0.2%  -  2.2%
AKEL                  26.7%  +- 4.0 = 22.4%  - 30.7%
DIKO                  18.8%  +- 3.6 = 15.25% - 22.4%
DISY                  33.8%  +- 4.3 = 29.5%  - 38.1%
EDEK                  10.4%  +- 2.8 =  7.6%  - 13.2%
KED                    6.1%  +- 2.2 =  3.9%  -  8.3%
N.HORIZONS             2.3%  +- 1.4 =  0.9%  -  3.7%
ENVIROMENTALISTS       0.7%  +- 0.8 =  0.0%  -  1.5%
INDEPENDENTS           0.1%  +- 0.3 =  0.0%  -  0.4%


EUROSEARCH (23 May)

DHSY     34%
AKEL     30%
DHKO     17%
EDEK    9,4%
KED     3,7%
NEO     2,8%
ADHSOK  1,8%
Env.      1%
Ind.    0,2%


LOGOS (24 May)
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DHSY 	34,3%
AKEL 	32,06%
DHKO 	17,5%
EDEK 	8,04%
KED 	3,35%
ADHSOK 	2,01%
NEO 	1,67%
Env 	1,00%



1991 Results
DHSY:35.8%
AKEL:30.6%
DHKO:19.5%
EDEK:10.9%
ADHSOK:2.4%
PAKOP:0.6%
Independent:0.2%

OTHER POLLS FOR 1996 ELECTIONS
RIK (3 May) ANT1 (2 Apr) RAI for DHSY (30 Apr)ANT1 (6 May)
DHSY 34.9%29.9%34.0%33.3%
AKEL32.6%27.2%29.3%30.6%
DHKO16.0%14.2%15.5%14.4%
EDEK7.8%8.3%9.4%9.35%
KED3.4%4.7% 3.3%5.2%
ADHSOK1.8%1.4% 1.7%1.61%
NEO1.6%2.9%1.8%3.11%
Greens0.4%1.4%0.6%2.37%
98.5%90.0%95.6%100.0%

Prepared by: The Cyprus Elections Page