Essential Report

World Leaders

Jul 18, 2017

Q. Do you hold favourable or unfavourable views of the following world leaders?

	Favourable	Unfavourable	Don’t know	Favour-able Vote Labor	Favour-able Vote Lib/Nat	Favour-able Vote Greens	Favour-able Vote other
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau	51%	11%	38%	55%	56%	61%	40%
German Chancellor Angela Merkel	43%	17%	40%	43%	55%	51%	33%
French President Emmanuel Macron	41%	14%	44%	44%	48%	49%	36%
UK Prime Minister Theresa May	33%	27%	40%	29%	46%	21%	38%
Russian President Vladimir Putin	16%	61%	23%	15%	17%	15%	27%
US President Donald Trump	16%	70%	14%	9%	23%	7%	29%
North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-Un	6%	80%	13%	7%	9%	4%	4%

Respondents were most likely to have a favourable view of Justin Trudeau (51%), Angela Merkel (43%) and Emmanuel Macron (41%).

Liberal/National voters were more likely than average to have a favourable view of Theresa May (46%) and Donald Trump (23%).

Labor voters did not differ much from the average – except for their low rating of Donald Trump (9% favourable).

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