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The Guardian Me­dia elec­tion poll pub­lished in to­day’s Sun­day Guardian was con­duct­ed be­tween April 10 and 13. Apart from the re­sults pub­lished to­day, the num­bers be­hind the num­bers make some in­ter­est­ing read­ing.

With the UNC coali­tion scor­ing 45 per cent in Trinidad and the PNM scor­ing 30 per cent, the third par­ties, such as the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) (7%) and the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) (6%) are chalk­ing up a rea­son­ably sized in­put in­to the num­bers for the two main par­ties (PNM and UNC), which is split­ting the votes.

Men and women are even­ly split in their sup­port for the UNC Coali­tion (44.7 % and 44.8 % re­spec­tive­ly), while more women (33.1 %) than men (26.6%) are sup­port­ing the PNM. Mar­gin­al­ly more women (6.7%) than men (6.3%) are sup­port­ing the PF, while the NTA has 7.3% men as against 5.7% women sup­port­ing it.