Opinion polls showed that Yanukovych's popularity sank after his election as president in 2010, with polls giving him from 13% to 20% of the votes if a presidential election were to be held in 2012 (in 2010 he received 35.8% of the vote in the first round of that election.)Poll: Yanukovych's electoral rating is four percentage points higher than Tymoshenko's, "Kyiv Post" (14 March 2012)</ref>Electoral moods of the Ukrainian population: February 2012 , Sociological group "RATING" (5 March 2012)</ref> A public opinion poll taken by Sociological group "RATING" gave him 25.1% of the votes in an imaginary February 2013 presidential election.