Opposition Good Party most popular second choice among voters, poll reveals

Opposition Good (İYİ) Party is the most popular second choice among voters in Turkey, a recent survey by leading pollster Metropoll showed. Some 13.7 percent of survey participants said they would vote for the Good Party, in case they couldn't vote for their own party for some reason.

Wednesday July 14 2021 04:48 pm

Good Party leader Meral Akşener is seen addressing a meeting in this file photo.

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Opposition Good (İYİ) Party was revealed to be the most popular second choice for voters in Turkey in a recent survey by leading pollster Metropoll.

Metropoll founder Özer Sencar shared the results of the survey on his Twitter account.

Seçmenlerin ikinci partisi. İYİ parti en çok tercih edilen ikinci parti. pic.twitter.com/Bcs8nd7Sxm
— Ozer Sencar (@ozersencar1) July 14, 2021

Survey participants were asked which party they would vote for in case they couldn't vote for their own party for some reason.

Good Party came top on the list, with an average of 13.7 percent of voters choosing it as their backup.

Led by Meral Akşener, a former member of the ruling alliance partner Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Good Party has been increasingly in collaboration with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) in recent years.

A majority of the CHP voter base, 49.5 percent, said that they would vote for Good Party if they couldn't vote for their first choice for some reason.

CHP voters' second most popular backup was the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), with 7.9 percent opting for the HDP as their second choice.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan's Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) was the second to choose Good Party as a backup, with 28.6 percent of their voters opting for Akşener's party as a second choice.

Voters of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) picked their alliance partner MHP as their second choice, while MHP voters opted for the AKP.