Over the years, the Centre Party has retained the image of being Estonia's so-called "Russian party," but in the time Jüri Ratas has served as chairman of the party, he has begun swinging the party more toward ethnic Estonian voters — and pretty successfully, when you consider the numbers.

The Centre Party has been steadily growing its support among Estonian-language voters, it appears from the results of the ERR-commissioned Turu-uuringute AS survey. In August, Centre had the support of 16% of voters, which increased to 18% in September and 20% in October. By November, Centre had surpassed EKRE as the second most popular political party among ethnic Estonians, beating the latter 22% to 19%.

Reform, meanwhile, remains a clear favourite among the country's ethnic Estonian voter base with 28% of the vote.

Among voters of other ethnicities, the majority of whom are native Russian speakers, despite a 1% drop in popularity, the Centre Party has maintained a runaway lead over any other possible rivals with the support of 73% of voters.

Other parties to earn the support of voters of other ethnicities include Reform (7%), the Social Democratic Party (SDE, 6%) and to a lesser extent the Estonian Greens (3%) and Estonia 200 (3%).

The Riigikogu elections will take place on 3 March 2019. 

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