Election 2006 Bahrain Tribune poll survey
The Bahrain Tribune poll survey revealed several interesting factors in the preference pattern between men and women in the selection of candidates. While 69 per cent of the women respondents said the educational background of a candidate mattered most in selecting their representtive, 50 per cent of the male respondents pitched in for a candidate’s affiliation to political society as the most important factor, which found favour only with 19 per cent of the women.
When it came to popularity of the candidate among the masses, both men and women seemed to agree that it wasn’t that important an issue, with 14 per cent of men rating it high and 12 per cent of the women respondents stating they would give priority to popularity.
Election 2006 Bahrain Tribune poll survey
The Bahrain Tribune poll survey revealed several interesting factors in the preference pattern between men and women in the selection of candidates. While 69 per cent of the women respondents said the educational background of a candidate mattered most in selecting their representtive, 50 per cent of the male respondents pitched in for a candidate’s affiliation to political society as the most important factor, which found favour only with 19 per cent of the women.
When it came to popularity of the candidate among the masses, both men and women seemed to agree that it wasn’t that important an issue, with 14 per cent of men rating it high and 12 per cent of the women respondents stating they would give priority to popularity.
The pace of Bahrainisation appears to be a sore point with the people, with 62 per cent of the total respondents saying they were not happy with the way things were moving against 31 per cent who said they were satisfied with the Bahrainisation process.
Opinion on this issue was identical in the case of both men and women with 62 per cent saying they were not happy and 31 per cent expressing satisfaction.
An anti-incumbency wave seems to be building up with 59 per cent of the total respondents stating that they were not happy with the sitting representatives’ performance in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Municipal Council, against a mere 16 per cent who said they were satisfied with the performance. A fourth of the total respondents did not have any opinion on the issue.
In the case of men, 57 per cent believed the performance was below par against 23 per cent who said the elected representatives had done their job, with another 20 per cent undecided.
Only 8 per cent of the female respondents believed that their representatives had done a good job against 61 who felt they hadn’t delivered the goods to the people, and another 31 per cent were undecided.
The overall performance of the first Parliament found favour with some women respondents, with a third of them agreeing that the House had delivered the goods to the people against 25 per cent of the men who said they were satisfied. However, 32 per cent of the women respondents said the House had failed to deliver the goods, with another 34 per cent unsure of their opinion.
56 per cent of the male respondents felt that the Chamber of Deputies had failed to deliver the goods.
When it comes to issues that matter most to Bahrainis, not surprisingly, unemployment, housing and the issue of naturalisation are uppermost in their minds. Discrimination on the basis of sect ranks very low in their list of priorities on a scale of 1 to five ranks. The issue of corruption too does not seem to bother the people as it finds little mention in the list of priorities.
