Opinion polling on the Narendra Modi premiership

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A number of opinion polls have been conducted regarding the premiership of Narendra Modi.

Overall approval

Area polled Segment polled Polling group Date Approve Disapprove Average Unsure Sample size Polling method Source(s)
Global All adults Morning Consult November 2024 75% 19% 6% Online interviews [1]
Global All adults Morning Consult October 2024 73% 21% 6% Online interviews [2]
 India All adults

[1]

August 2024 49% 22% 29% Online interviews
Global All adults Morning Consult February 2024 78% 17% 6% Online interviews
Global All adults Morning Consult May 2023 76% 20% Online interviews
Global All adults Morning Consult July 2022 75% 19% 5% 4,000 Online interviews
 India All adults [2] 30 May 2022 67% 30% 3% 64,000 [3]
Global All adults Morning Consult March 2022 77% 18% 5% 4,000 Online interviews
Global All adults Morning Consult January 2022 71% 3,000 - 5,000 Interviews [4]
Global All adults Morning Consult September 2021 70% 25% 2,126 Online interviews [5]
 India All adults India Today 3–13 January 2021 74%
(30% outstanding) 		8% 17% 1% 12,232[6] Telephone [7]
 India All adults India Today 15–27 July 2020 78%
(30% outstanding) 		5% 17% 12,071 Telephone [8][9]
 India All adults IANS-CVoter COVID-19 16 March–21 April 2020 93.5%
 [10][11][12]
 India All adults IANS-CVoter COVID-19 25 March 2020 76.8%
 [10]
 India All adults IANS-CVoter November 2019–January 2020 83.1%
(62.3% very much satisfied) 		16.8% 30,240 [13]
Global Online mood ET Magazine September 2019 64%
 36% Online [14]
Global India Today online readers India Today August 2017 63%
(20% very good) 		12% 23% 1% Online [15]
Global Times of India online readers The Times of India May 2017 76%
(48% very good) 		11% 13% 2% >1,000,000 Online [16]
 India All adults Pew Research Center 21 February – 10 March 2017 88%
(69% very favorable) 		10%
(6% very unfavorable) 		– 2% 2,464 [17]
 India All adults Pew Research Center 7 April – 24 March 2016 81%
(57% very favorable) 		16%
(6% very unfavorable) 		– 3% 2,464 [18]
 India All adults Pew Research Center 6 April – 19 May 2015 87%
(68% very favorable) 		11%
(5% very unfavorable) 		– 2% 2,452 [19][20]
 India All adults Pew Research Center 7 December 2013 – 12 January 2014 78%
(60% very favorable) 		16%
(7% very unfavorable) 		– 7% 2,464 [21]

Graph

This shows only polls with known sample sizes meant to be representative of Indians. Global polls are not included.

Polling aggregates
Government evaluation
  Good/Excellent
  Regular
  Bad/Terrible
  Unsure/No Opinion

Issue-specific

COVID-19

The government under Narendra Modi faced the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Area polled Segment polled Polling group Date Approve Disapprove Average Unsure Sample size Polling method Source(s)
 India (rural areas) All adults Gaon Connection and Lokniti-CSDS 30 May – 16 July 2020 74.7%
(37.3% very satisfied) 		14.7%
(6.1% very dissatisfied) 		– – 25,371 Face-to-face [22][23][24]

Historical rankings

The Mood of the Nation survey conducted annually between 2016 and 2021 consistently listed Modi as the most popular prime minister among members of the Indian public.[25][26] A YouGov-Mint-CPR survey in 2022 also ranked Modi first, ahead of Jawaharlal Nehru.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Global Leader Approval Rating Tracker | Morning Consult". Morning Consult Pro. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Global Leader Approval Rating Tracker | Morning Consult". Morning Consult Pro. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  3. ^ Desk, India com News (31 May 2022). "PM Modi's Approval Rating Jumps To 67% in 2022". www.india.com. Retrieved 4 June 2022. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ "PM Narendra Modi gets highest approval rating among global leaders, finds US survey". India Today. 21 January 2022.
  5. ^ "PM Modi's approval rating is 70%, highest among 13 global leaders". Hindustan Times. 4 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Mood of the Nation: Pandemic, recession, protests couldn't lock down PM Modi". India Today. 21 January 2021.
  7. ^ "India Today Mood of the Nation: January 2021". India Today. 21 January 2021.
  8. ^ "India Today Mood of the Nation: August 2020". India Today. 8 August 2020.
  9. ^ Khan, Fatima (8 August 2020). "Narendra Modi is India's best PM, Yogi Adityanath the best CM, finds India Today survey". ThePrint. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  10. ^ a b Bloomberg (30 April 2020). "PM Modi's Popularity soars amid India's Covid fight". Times of India. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Modi's Popularity Soars as India Weathers the Pandemic". New York Times. 16 May 2020.
  12. ^ "93.5% देशवासियों को भरोसा, कोरोना संकट से अच्छे से निपट रही है मोदी सरकार: सर्वे". Navbharat Times (in Hindi). Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  13. ^ "PM Modi Still Popular, Kejriwal Leads Among CMs: CVoter Survey". The Quint. 26 January 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  14. ^ Layak, Suman (1 September 2019). "Modi 2.0, 100 days: What India is saying online". The Economic Times. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  15. ^ "India Today Mood of the Nation poll: PM Modi's political invincibility continues, 10 big takeaways". India Today. 17 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Modi govt gets high approval rating at three-year mark in TOI online poll". Times of India. 25 May 2017.
  17. ^ Bruce Stokes, Dorothy Manevich, and Hanyu Chwe (15 November 2017). "Three Years In, Modi Remains Very Popular". Pew Research Center.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Bruce Stokes (19 September 2016). "India and Modi: The Honeymoon Continues". Pew Research Center.
  19. ^ Bruce Stokes (17 September 2015). "The Modi Bounce". Pew Research Center.
  20. ^ Hani Zainulbhai (17 September 2015). "Indians adore Modi". Fact Tank.
  21. ^ "Indians Want Political Change". Pew Research Center. 26 February 2014.
  22. ^ "Gaon Connection and Lokniti-CSDS Covid Rural Survey 2020-Findings" (PDF). Lokniti.org. Lokniti. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  23. ^ "During lockdown, rural India faced insurmountable sufferings; 74% satisfied with government". Gaon Connection. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  24. ^ "Overwhelming majority of rural Indians satisfied with Modi govt's steps to fight COVID-19: Survey". Outlook. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  25. ^ "Guess who India thinks is the best prime minister of all time". The Indian Express. 23 August 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  26. ^ "Narendra Modi voted India's best PM again, Atal Bihari Vajpayee comes second". India Today. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  27. ^ "India 75 survey: Modi the most popular PM ever, Nehru second". Mint. 14 August 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.

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