The telephone poll, conducted by the Kyodo news agency over the weekend, said 31.5 per cent of respondents want the elections held before the law for the increase in consumption tax goes into effect.
In contrast, only 25.4 percent supported the plan to call elections Noda's after the Act but before the tax increase, Kyodo said.
The Government plans to double the sales tax rate of five percent by the middle of the Decade, the nation looks to address the rising cost of social welfare and ballooning debt.
But critics, including the ruling and opposition lawmakers, fearing that the economy is too fragile to cope with the tax increase, despite the threat of a ratings agency lowered debt.