Brazil elections 2022: Bolsonaro divides evangelicals, but has improved (April 24-26)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – PoderData research conducted from April 24 to 26, 2022 shows that Jair Bolsonaro (PL) continues to be divided in the evaluation of evangelicals: in the segment, 42% consider the work of the president of the Republic “great” or “good.”

Another 35% rate him as “bad” or “terrible” – a percentage that has dropped by 5 percentage points since the last poll, conducted 15 days earlier.

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The president’s rating is significantly more positive among the evangelical stratum than among the general population, where the proportion who rate him “excellent” or “good” is 28% and “bad” or “terrible” is 50%.

Looking only at Catholic respondents, Bolsonaro is rated even less favorably: 23% “good” or “great” and 49% “bad” or “terrible.”

EVANGELICAL GROUP

The share of those who think Bolsonaro is “bad” or “terrible” has dropped 5 percentage points in 15 days among evangelical voters. The group that considers the president “regular” followed the opposite movement, rising 5 percentage points over the period.

The poll was conducted by PoderData, a company of the Poder360 Jornalismo group, with its own resources. The data was collected between April 24 and 26, 2022, through calls to cell phones and landlines. 3,000 interviews were conducted in 283 cities in the 27 states of the Federation. The margin of error is 2 percentage points. The confidence interval is 95%.

IMPROVEMENT AMONG CATHOLICS

The range of Bolsonaro’s assessment as “bad” or “terrible” among Catholic voters dropped 8 percentage points in 2 weeks, to 49%. It had been above 50% since August 2021, when PowerData started doing the crossover.

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