Latest Tracking Poll Results Press Release March 31, 2020 Contact Information
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Naming stage Rating stage
Date of survey 17-18/3/2020 19-20/3/2020
Survey method Random telephone survey conducted by real interviewers
Target population Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents aged 18 or above 502 (including 250 landline 502 (including 246 landline Sample size and 252 mobile samples) and 256 mobile samples) Effective response 60.1% 66.2% rate Sampling error of percentages not more than +/-4% and that of ratings not more Sampling error than +/-3.5 at 95% conf. level Rim-weighted according to figures provided by the Census and Statistics Department. The gender-age distribution of the Hong Kong population came from Weighting method “Mid-year population for 2018”, while the educational attainment (highest level attended) distribution and economic activity status distribution came from “Women and Men in Hong Kong - Key Statistics (2018 Edition)”. Survey Topic
3 Popularity of Executive Councillors Survey result - Popularity of Executive Councillors
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Top 5 non-official Executive Councillors – Naming
Executive Change in Rank 3-4/9/2019 19-20/3/2020 Change Councillors ranking 1 Regina Ip 31% 32% ▲1% -- 2 Bernard Chan 16% 16% ▲1% ▲1 3 Ronny Tong 19% 12% ▼7% * ▼1
4 Lam Ching-choi 1% 11% ▲10% * ▲6
5 Tommy Cheung 3% 4% -- ▲1
6 Ip Kwok-him 3% 3% -- ▲1
The naming survey showed that Regina Ip, Bernard Chan, Ronny Tong and Lam Ching-choi were named most frequently. However, 14% made a wrong attempt at citing non-official Executive Councillors while 59% had no clue.
*Significant change Survey result - Popularity of Executive Councillors
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各行政會議成員提名 - 綜合圖表 (按次計算) Naming rates of Executive Councillors - Combined (per poll)
Regina Ip Bernard Chan Ronny Tong Lam Ching-choi Tommy Cheung Ip Kwok-him 40%
35% 32% 30%
25%
20% Percentage
16%
15% 百分比 12% 10% 11%
5% 4% 3% 0% 9/2017 3/2018 9/2018 3/2019 9/2019 3/2020 調查日期 Date of Survey Survey result - Popularity of Executive Councillors
6 Top 5 non-official Executive Councillors - Rating
3-4/9/2019 19-20/3/2020 Change Record
Bernard Chan 35.1 31.1 ▼3.9 * All-time record low since Jan. 2005
Regina Ip 30.0 29.5 ▼0.5 All-time record low since Jan. 2013
Tommy Cheung 27.4 24.7 ▼2.7 All-time record low since Mar. 2017
Ip Kwok-him -- 24.6 -- All-time record low since Apr. 2019
Ronny Tong 24.9 24.2 ▼0.8 All-time record low since Sept. 2017
Lam Ching-choi -- 28.8 -- New record
The mean score obtained by these top 5 non-official Executive Councillors was 26.8 marks. In this latest survey, Lam Ching-choi obtained a support rating of 28.8 marks, but he was dropped due to his relatively low recognition rate. All of these Executive Councillors’ ratings are at their record lows respectively.
*Significant change Survey result - Popularity of Executive Councillors
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各行政會議成員評分 - 綜合圖表 (按次計算) Ratings of Executive Councillors – Combined (per poll)
Bernard Chan Regina Ip Tommy Cheung Ip Kwok-him Ronny Tong 70
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Rating 40
評分 31.1 30 29.5 24.7 24.6 20 24.2
10 9/2012 9/2013 9/2014 9/2015 9/2016 9/2017 9/2018 9/2019 調查日期 Date of Survey