Palestinian Elections
	Total %	West Bank %	Gaza Strip %
Information and practices
1.               Have you heard about the election registration process?
1) Yes	89.2	88.6	90.1
2) No	10.8	11.4	9.9
2.              Do you have sufficient information about the voter registration process?
1) Yes	36.7	38.6	33.7
2)  No	63.3	61.4	66.3
3.              Do you know where to go to for registration?
1) Yes	66.9	68.8	63.8
2) No	33.1	31.2	36.1
4.              Have you registered?
1) Yes	13.1	13.0	13.3
2) No	86.9	87.0	86.7
5.              If not, do you plan to register within the period specified by the Election Commission (i.e., by October 7, 2004)?
1) Yes	57.8	56.7	59.6
2) No	42.2	43.3	40.4
6.              How have you received information on election registration?
Banners
1) Yes	53.8	52.2	56.3
2) No	46.2	47.8	43.7
T.V. and Radio
1) Yes	44.3	42.2	47.6
2) No	55.7	57.8	52.4
Material distributed in the streets
1) Yes	38.3	38.6	37.9
2) No	61.7	61.4	62.1
Local newspapers
1) Yes	31.2	28.4	35.8
2) No	68.8	71.6	64.2
Phone calls from the commission staff
1) Yes	12.4	9.1	17.7
2) No	87.6	90.9	82.3
Others (word of mouth, friends, relatives, …. etc.)
1) Yes	30.5	28.0	34.5
2) No	69.5	72.0	65.5

	Total %	West Bank %	Gaza Strip %
Attitudes towards elections
7.              Do you support holding a presidential election?
1) Yes	72.6	72.4	72.7
2) No	25.6	25.0	26.4
3)  No opinion	1.9	2.6	0.8
8.              Do you support holding a parliamentary election?
1) Yes	82.2	81.1	84.0
2) No	14.5	14.9	13.7
3)  No opinion	3.3	3.9	2.3
9.              Do you support holding local council elections?
1) Yes	85.2	85.8	84.1
2) No	11.4	10.5	13.0
3)  No opinion	2.8	2.7	2.9
10.            If a presidential election were to take place, would you vote?
1) Yes	68.4	65.3	73.3
2) No	29.1	32.2	24.4
3)  Don’t know	2.4	2.5	2.3
11.          If a legislative election were to take place, would you vote?
1) Yes	65.2	63.0	68.7
2) No	32.6	34.8	29.1
3)  Don’t know	2.2	2.2	2.3
12.          If local council elections were to take place, would you vote?
1) Yes	68.5	67.8	69.4
2) No	29.4	30.0	28.6
3)  Don’t know	2.1	2.2	2.0
13.          If the opposition called for a boycott, would you boycott?
1) Yes	19.8	19.3	20.5
2) No	71.0	69.4	73.5
3)  Don’t know	9.2	11.4	5.9

	Total %	West Bank %	Gaza Strip %
Politicalsupport
14.            Which of the following political groups do you support?
1)  Fateh	29.1	28.8	29.6
2) Hamas	23.9	21.4	27.8
3) Islamic Jihad	3.4	3.8	2.9
4) PFLP	2.1	2.5	1.5
5) PPP	1.3	1.9	0.3
6) Al Tahreer Islamic Party	0.3	0.4	0.1
7) DFLP	0.3	0.3	0.3
8) Nidal Popular Front	0.2	0.4	0.0
9) Arab Liberation Front	0.1	0.1	0.0
10) Arab-Palestine Front	0.1	0.2	0.0
11) Palestinian Liberation Front	0.1	0.2	0.0
12) Feda	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Others	2.6	3.6	1.1
14) No one	36.4	36.3	36.5
15.            If the following blocks ran for elections and you had to choose one of them, which one would you choose?
1) A block led by Fateh	33.8	33.0	35.1
2) An Islamic block (Hamas and Islamic Jihad)	31.5	29.4	34.9
3)  A leftist block (DFLP, PFLP, Feda, Nidal, Initiative … etc)	4.3	5.1	3.1
4) Others	1.6	1.4	1.9
5) None of the existing blocks or parties	28.8	31.2	25.0
Presidentialcandidates
16.            If the following candidates ran for president, who would you vote for?
1) Yaser Arafat	46.2	46.7	45.4
2)  Marwan Barghouti	11.9	13.0	10.2
3) Mahmoud Azzahar	8.6	9.2	7.5
4) Ismaiel Haneyah	8.0	5.0	12.7
5) Haidar Abdel shafi	6.1	5.1	7.8
6) Mustafa Barghouti	1.7	1.8	1.4
7) Mohammed Dahlan	1.6	0.8	2.9
8) Hanan Ashrawi	1.4	1.7	1.0
9) Sae’b Eireqat	1.2	1.5	0.7
10) Ahmad Queri’	1.0	1.3	0.5
11) Mahmoud Abbas	0.5	0.1	1.1
12) Others	0.5	0.5	0.5
13) No one	11.3	13.2	8.3

	Total %	West Bank %	Gaza Strip %
17.            If the following three candidates ran for president, who would you vote for?
1) Yaser Arafat	57.9	60.2	54.4
2) Mahmoud Azzahar	24.6	24.3	25.2
3)  Haidar Abdel shafi	13.0	11.2	15.9
4) None of the above	4.4	4.3	4.5
18.            If the following three candidates ran for president, who would you vote for?
1)  Marwan Barghouti	51.4	51.1	51.9
2) Ismaie'l Haneyah	28.2	26.9	30.4
3)  Mustafa Barghouti	11.2	11.5	10.6
4) None of the above	9.2	10.6	7.1
19.            If the following three candidates ran for president, who would you vote for?
1) Ismae’l  Haneyah	39.8	38.5	42.0
2)  Mustafa Barghouti	32.2	36.4	25.7
3) Mohammed Dahlan	14.3	9.4	22.1
4) None of the above	13.6	15.7	10.3
20.            If the following three candidates ran for president, who would you vote for?
1)  Mahmoud Azzahar	44.3	42.4	47.4
2) Sae’b Eireqat	23.5	21.6	26.5
3) Hanan Ashrawi	18.9	21.9	14.1
4) None of the above	13.2	14.1	11.9