Labor Party voters have shown a marked preference for President Yitzhak Navon over former Premier Yitzhak Rabin as their candidate for Prime Minister in the next Knesset elections, according to the results of a poll published yesterday. Shimon Peres, chairman of the Labor Party, ran a poor third.
But Rabin topped Navon in a poll of the general public. Both polls, conducted by the Pori organization were based on a cross-section of 1,200 voters. Among Laborites, 35 percent favored Navon against 22 percent for Rabin. But among voters for all parties, Rabin was the choice of 34 percent to 31 percent for Navon.
The pollsters broke down the results among general voters according to social and ethnic groupings. They found that better educated voters in the higher social strata tended to favor Navon more than the less well educated and the less well-to-do.
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