Tories maintain slight lead over Liberals in new poll

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OTTAWA — A brand new ballot suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have regained some fashionable assist after the Conservatives loved a surge when Pierre Poilievre turned chief final month.

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The info launched Wednesday by Leger relies on a web-based survey it did between Oct. 7 and 10 with 1,534 Canadians. It can’t be assigned a margin of error as a result of on-line polls usually are not thought of really random samples.

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The survey requested individuals which federal political occasion they might almost certainly vote for if an election had been held as we speak, and 33 per cent of determined voters selected the Conservatives.

That’s in comparison with 31 per cent who picked the Liberals and 21 per cent who opted for the New Democrats.

Whereas the Tories are within the lead, the information exhibits they misplaced one proportion level of assist amongst determined voters because the identical query was requested final month, whereas the Liberals gained three factors.

A extra detailed breakdown exhibits that 36 per cent of respondents in Ontario would again Trudeau, in comparison with 32 per cent who say they might select Poilievre.

The hole is wider in Quebec, the place 29 per cent of respondents picked the Liberals, over the 22 per cent who selected the Tories.