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Derek Achong

Poll­ster and po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Pro­fes­sor Hamid Ghany has de­fend­ed the re­sults of a Guardian Me­dia-com­mis­sioned pub­lic opin­ion poll he con­duct­ed for the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

In his poll, pub­lished in yes­ter­day’s Sun­day Guardian, Ghany ques­tioned 1,650 re­spon­dents in 11 mar­gin­al con­stituen­cies in Trinidad, and found that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) had a sta­tis­ti­cal edge over the in­cum­bent Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM). The in­de­pen­dent sur­vey, which was al­so con­duct­ed in To­ba­go, found that the PNM is ahead of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) in the two seats there.