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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Political Science Association of Zambia (PSAZ) 2021 VOTER behaviour and candidate choice survey has revealed that if elections were held today, President Edgar Chagwa Lungu would win by 56.8% votes.<\/p>\n

Presenting the findings today, PSAZ says the closest contender who is UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema would come in second with 40% of the votes followed by Socialist Party leader Fred M\u2019membe with 1.34% votes, DP\u2019s Harry Kalaba with 0.5%, PAC\u2019s Andyfold Banda with 0.21% and 1.06 showed that they were undecided.<\/p>\n

He said the survey was conducted in 5 provinces, namely Lusaka, Muchinga, Central, Northern, and North Western provinces. Speaking during the survey dissemination program, PSAZ Principle investigator and political scientist, Joe Dambwa said the association used multi stage sampling where the association picked 5 Constituencies to sample from during the survey.<\/p>\n

He said that the association ensured that all the people that were sampled during the survey were registered voters that are to participate in next week\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

\u201c96% respondents were not newly registered voters and had previously voted while only 2%were newly registered voters and 2 percent declined to respond.\u201d He said.<\/p>\n

Also speaking during the dissemination, Ferraline UK founder, Richard Elsen lauded the PSAZ for the survey saying it was a brilliant and professionally conducted.<\/p>\n

oped it would be fairly reported in the media He also hoped that the turnout in next week\u2019s elections would be good. The media at the unveiling of the polls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. The Political Science Association of Zambia (PSAZ) 2021 VOTER behaviour and candidate choice survey has revealed that if elections were held today, President Edgar Chagwa Lungu would win by 56.8% votes. Presenting the findings today, PSAZ says the closest contender who is UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema would come in second with 40% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,1544,319,233],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-poll-predicts","tag-president-lungu","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Poll predicts President Lungu would win by 56.8% vote - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Political Science Association of Zambia (PSAZ) 2021 VOTER behaviour and candidate choice survey has revealed that if ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Poll predicts President Lungu would win by 56.8% vote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Political Science Association of Zambia (PSAZ) 2021 VOTER behaviour and candidate choice survey has revealed that if ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-06T22:22:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/08\/img-610db55e7b8b6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"New Poll predicts President Lungu would win by 56.8% vote\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-06T22:22:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote\"},\"wordCount\":245,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/08\/img-610db55e7b8b6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Poll predicts\",\"President Lungu\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-poll-predicts-president-lungu-would-win-by-56-8-vote\",\"name\":\"New Poll predicts President Lungu would win by 56.8% vote - 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