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Of 685 people surveyed some 22 supported a store three times the size of the 557sqm Tesco in Knowle.
A further seven wanted it bigger than this size.
The results were released by the Dorridge Residents Opposed to Village Superstore group, which is fighting the plan.
It said "friends and neighbours" carried out the survey.
Sainsbury’s has put forward a 1,812sqm sales area plan for Forest Court, including six shops and a revamped doctors’ surgery.
While just 87 opposed a store outright for Forest Court, when asked on size some 393 backed a store the same or smaller than Knowle Tesco.
Some 110 wanted it to be 1.5 times the size of Tesco and 153 twice the size.
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council members are expected to be asked to make a decision on the plan on October 19.
A DROVS spokesman said: “The results of this survey confirm what we’ve found from talking to friends and neighbours – that there is virtually no support in Dorridge for a store the size Sainsbury’s are proposing.”
In a press release, they said: “This poll dispels Sainsbury’s claims that those opposing their plans are a minority.
“It also sends a clear message to our elected representatives that the people of Dorridge are strongly opposed to this oversized development.”
Nick Cromie, a DROVS supporter who helped organise the survey, said in the statement: “With all the arguments about Sainsbury’s, I felt it was important to ask Dorridge residents what they actually wanted.
“We were careful to make sure that the survey would give a fair and accurate representation of views so we surveyed addresses across the village.
“The full results will be submitted to the council’s planning department.”
A Sainsbury’s spokesman said: “The proposed store size has been selected as a result of extensive public consultation, including our own survey of 1,500 households immediately surrounding the application site.”
It said the DROVS survey is “not consistent” with the result of the Sainsbury’s survey which shows 75 per cent shop at stores bigger than the one proposed and 68 per cent wanted to do their main shop in Dorridge.
That survey showed of the 1,180 who responded, 42 per cent backed a store the size of Knowle Tesco.
It found 27 per cent wanted a store the size of the 1,992sqm Sainsbury’s in Poplar Road.
Some 46 per cent backed a store larger than 1,393sqm.
The spokesman said: “The DROVS results are not reflective of the feedback we received at the public exhibition or the support we have received from residents in response to our planning application.”
Note: this article was amended slightly at 9am 29/9 to reflect the first post below.
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