Slight dip in May 2024, yet Mr. Modi gets a high approval rating of 70%, showing citizens rate him high on performance as PM: Ipsos IndiaBus PM’s Approval Rating
Mr. Narendra Modi has been voted back to power in the General Elections as the PM of the country and on June 9th, 2024, took oath as the PM of the country. Interestingly, Mr. Modi being high on the popularity sweepstakes is ratified by the Ipsos Approval Rating of the PM, carried out in May 2024, where he scored 70% for his performance as the PM of the country. Though there has been a 5% dip over the last round of the Ipsos survey conducted in February 2024, yet majority of citizens polled believe Mr. Modi is doing a good job as the PM, as opposed to the naysayers, who were far and few.
Interestingly, Mr. Modi’s approval rating was seen to be high across different cohorts and cities: Citizens of north zone (86%), tier1 (85%) and east zone (83%) gave Mr. Modi a distinction in performance as PM. He was further rated high on performance by full time parents/ homemakers (79%), tier3 cities (76%), 45+ age group (75%), west zone (75%), low education citizens (73%), females (72%), 18-30 year olds (71%), SEC B (71%), employed part time/ full time (71%), SEC A (69%), SEC C (69%), males (68%), 31-45 years (66%), high education (65%), students/ pupils (62%) and tier2 (60%).
His approval rating was relatively lower for metros (53%), self-employed (43%) and south zone (31%). 52% disapproved in south zone.
Performance of Modi government on key issues
What were the hits and misses of the Modi government? The survey also gauged the performance of the government on some of the key portfolios. Education system, sanitation and cleanliness and healthcare emerged the top performance areas. Pollution and environment, poverty, inflation and corruption were the middle of the road performance areas. While unemployment was rated lowest in performance.
| Areas | Performance April ‘24 | Performance May ‘24 |
1 | Education System | 76% | 73% |
2 | Sanitation & Cleanliness | 67% | 59% |
3 | Healthcare System | 64% | 57% |
4 | Pollution and Environment | 56% | 46% |
5 | Poverty | 45% | 46% |
6 | Inflation | 44% | 45% |
7 | Unemployment | 43% | 39% |
8 | Corruption | 42% | 45% |
Parijat Chakraborty, Group Service Line Leader, Public Affairs, Corporate Reputation, ESG & CSR, Ipsos India said, "PM Modi has been elected for the third term as the PM of the country and that gets validated in our approval rating for the PM carried out in May 2024, which gives him a high rating of 70% on his performance. Though there has been a 5% dip from last round, Mr. Modi continues to be popular among the masses as their leader to steer the country The poll lauds his work particularly in the areas of education, sanitation and cleanliness and healthcare. In some areas the views were polarized on his performance. Particularly, for pollution, poverty, inflation, corruption and unemployment."
Methodology:
Ipsos IndiaBus is a monthly pan India omnibus (which also runs multiple client surveys), that uses a structured questionnaire and is conducted by Ipsos India on diverse topics among 2200+ respondents from SEC A, B and C households, covering adults of both genders from all four zones in the country. The survey is conducted in metros, tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 towns, providing a more robust and representative view of urban Indians. The respondents were polled face to face and online. We have city-level quota for each demographic segments that ensure the waves are identical and no additional sampling error. The data is weighted by demographics and city-class population to arrive at national average.