Venezuela presidential election polls
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María Corina Machado (VV – PUD) leads the polling average with 65.6%, 55.0 points ahead of Lorenzo Mendoza.
Average
Updated 34 minutes ago
MachadoMaría Corina Machado (VV – PUD)
65.6
+1.9
MendozaLorenzo Mendoza
10.6
RodríguezDelcy Rodríguez (PSUV)
10.5
+2.9
GonzálezEdmundo González (PUD)
5.2
−4.3
MárquezEnrique Márquez (Centrados)
0.7
−0.7
CaprilesHenrique Capriles (UNICA)
0.7
±0.0
CabelloDiosdado Cabello (PSUV)
0.6
−0.4
LópezLeopoldo López (VP)
0.5
±0.0
Trend
MachadoMendozaRodríguezGonzálezMárquezCapriles
Stances
MachadoMendozaRodríguezGonzálezMárquezCapriles
Immigration6 unplaced
ExpandRestrictRemigration
Economy1 unplaced
Free marketState-directed
Christian identity4 unplaced
Abortion4 unplaced
Broad accessProtect unborn life
Marriage & family4 unplaced
Individual choiceTraditional
National culture5 unplaced
CosmopolitanPreserve heritage
Technology5 unplaced
Light-touchRein in Big Tech
Scores and reasons written by AI. Methodology
Why these scores
Economy
- María Corina Machado (VV – PUD): 1.5 of 10 Pledges full privatisation of PDVSA and over 500 state companies, property rights as fundamental
- Lorenzo Mendoza: 2.5 of 10 Empresas Polar CEO who publicly fought Chavista price controls and expropriation; no formal programme
- Delcy Rodríguez (PSUV): 7 of 10 PSUV acting president; 2026 hydrocarbons reform ended PDVSA monopoly, but state keeps strategic control
- Edmundo González (PUD): 3 of 10 Ran on PUD 2024 programme of market recovery, private oil investment and ending controls
- Henrique Capriles (UNICA): 4.5 of 10 Last full programme (2012-13) kept social missions inside a market economy, modelled on Lula's Brazil
Christian identity
- María Corina Machado (VV – PUD): 3.5 of 10 Says her Catholic faith should not be imposed through legislation; no church-state proposals
- Delcy Rodríguez (PSUV): 4.5 of 10 Maduro-era PSUV government she served funded churches via 'Mi Iglesia Bien Equipada'; secular constitution
Abortion
- María Corina Machado (VV – PUD): 6.5 of 10 Personally opposed; accepts abortion only for rape, foetal malformation or danger to the mother
- Delcy Rodríguez (PSUV): 7 of 10 Government keeps the penal-code ban allowing abortion only to save the woman's life
Marriage & family
- María Corina Machado (VV – PUD): 3 of 10 Backs legal recognition of same-sex marriage (2023 primary campaign); no gender-identity policy stated
- Delcy Rodríguez (PSUV): 5 of 10 Chavista leaders promised a same-sex marriage debate in 2017; never legislated, marriage stays man-woman
National culture
- Delcy Rodríguez (PSUV): 5 of 10 Keeps Chavista heritage politics: Bolívar cult, Indigenous Resistance Day replacing Columbus Day
Subsidiarity
- María Corina Machado (VV – PUD): 6.5 of 10 2025 Freedom Manifesto pledges to decentralise power from the state back to citizens
- Delcy Rodríguez (PSUV): 2 of 10 Governs through central ministries and PSUV-run communal structures; no devolution to states proposed
- Henrique Capriles (UNICA): 6 of 10 Long-time Miranda governor who attacked the 1999 constitution's centralised presidential power; no current plan
Technology
- Delcy Rodríguez (PSUV): 7 of 10 Drafted the 2017 Law against Hatred penalising online messages; government blocked X in 2024
Recent polls
| Date | Pollster | Machado | Mendoza | Rodríguez | González |
|---|
| 30 Aug | Meganalisis | 61.2 | 5.9 | 3.1 | 1.4 |
| 28 Aug | Hercon Consultores | 73.3 | 13.3 | 10.1 | |
| 3 Aug | AtlasIntel | 57.4 | 9 | 17.7 | |
| 27 May | Meganalisis+1 scenario | 74.5 | | 3.9 | |
| 20 Apr | Meganalisis+1 scenario | 76.2 | | 3.8 | |
| 31 Mar | Meganalisis | 68.9 | | 3.1 | 0.9 |
| 31 Mar | Poder y Estrategia | 63 | | 10 | 16 |
| 25 Feb | Meganalisis | 70.6 | | 2.7 | 0.3 |
| 30 Jan | Gold Glove/Financial Times | 67 | | 25 | |
| 13 Jan | Premise/The Economist | 48 | | 11 | 9 |
| 11 Jan | Meganalisis | 78.3 | | | 1.2 |
| 11 Jan | AtlasIntel/Bloomberg | 38.2 | | 8.7 | 5.3 |
| 8 Jan | Afiches | 28 | | 7 | 17 |