Majority of Hongkongers think Carrie Lam will do better job than predecessor, poll finds
University survey finds most were not happy with the election process, especially younger respondents
University of Hong Kong’s public opinion programme, which interviewed 1,002 local residents last week, found 55 per cent of respondents thought Lam would do a better job. Twenty-four per cent thought her performance would be “more or less the same”, while 11 per cent thought she would do worse than Leung.
Lam’s popularity rating stood at 55.6 points on a scale of 0-100, according to the poll – 4.1 points higher than Leung five years ago.
Among the respondents, 42.6 per cent supported Lam as chief executive, while 50.4 per cent opposed her. This gave her a net approval rate of minus 7.8 percentage points.
The majority of respondents aged between 18 and 49 opposed Lam as chief executive, with the ratio of opponents reaching 79 per cent among those aged 18 to 29. For those aged 50 or above, 54 per cent backed Lam as chief executive.
In March 2012, before he became chief executive, Leung’s net approval rate was minus 13 percentage points.