Q COSTARICA — The Institute of Social Studies in Population (Idespo) at the National University (UNA) analyzed the profile of those supporting the leading presidential candidates in the polls.
In the case of Laura Fernández, candidate for the Pueblo Soberano (PPSO), her support comes primarily from men over 50 years old. Of these, half belong to a high socioeconomic stratum, and 50.5% have completed secondary school. The Catholic religion also predominates.
Women
Support for Álvaro Ramos, of the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN), and for Claudia Dobles, of the Coalición Agenda Ciudadana, comes mainly from women.
In Ramos’s case, these are women with a primary school education or less, mostly from the middle class and Catholic.
Dobles also enjoys strong female support, but with a different profile: she is particularly supported by women with university degrees, predominantly Catholic women from middle-class backgrounds.
Youth
Support for Ariel Robles, of the Frente Amplio, is concentrated among young people: 66.7% are between 18 and 34 years old.
The electoral roll comprises 3.7 million voters, of whom 44% (1.6 million) are between 18 and 39 years old.
Robles shares with Dobles the characteristic of having middle-class women with university degrees among his main supporters.
The strongest support for Ariel Robles comes from young women. Illustrative image. (Instagram Ariel Robles).
The undecided voters?
Of the 43.9% of people who have not yet decided how to vote on February 1st, 59.2% are women. 40.4% are between 18 and 34 years old, half are Catholic, and the majority belong to the middle class. Additionally, 43.1% have a high school education.
The reasons for not having decided how to vote are primarily threefold: lack of information about the candidates, uncertainty about whom to support, and not having yet reflected on their choice.
The study also consulted the most frequently used media outlets:
- Facebook: 59.3%
- Television: 54.7%
- TikTok: 34.7%
- Instagram: 24.5%
- Newspapers: 23.1%
The survey was conducted between November 21st and 29th, with a 95% confidence level and 97.8% population coverage.