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Conservative Party continues lead over Liberals in poll

by albertacowpoke | October 29, 2009 at 06:21 am

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The lates EKOS/CBC polls indicates that the Conservative Party continues to maintain its lead over the Liberals in Canada.

According to the poll, which is based on 3220 samples on a phone survey, 38.4% of decided voters would cast their votes for the Conservative, while 28.6% would vote for the Liberals. The NDP came in third holding steady at 16.7%.

The Green Party has the support of 9.9% of respondents, while the BLOC Quebecois 8.2 %.

Support for the Conservative Party continued to hold last week, according to the latest poll results from EKOS.

Among decided respondents, the Conservatives drew 38.4 per cent support, followed by the Liberals at 26.8 per cent and the New Democratic Party at 16.7 per cent.

The Green Party had the support of 9.9 per cent of decided respondents, while the Bloc Québécois had 8.2 per cent support, according to the EKOS poll, which was released exclusively to CBC.

Last week, the Conservatives stood at 38.3 per cent support, followed by the Liberals at 27.1 per cent, the NDP at 14.5 per cent, the Green Party at 11 per cent, and the BQ at nine per cent.

Respondents in the automated telephone survey are asked: "If an election were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?" The poll reached 3,220 respondents between Oct. 21 and Oct. 27. The results carry a margin of error of plus or minus 1.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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Jordan Yerman

at 08:02 on October 29th, 2009

Here in BC, our Liberal Party could preserve itself by actually being liberal. It's just a suggestion.

albertacowpoke

at 08:16 on October 29th, 2009

People get the government they deserve, just look at Alberta, 72 seats out of 83 in the legislature with an impotent Premier that had the gull the other day when questioned by the NDP leader on the H1N1 vaccine for the homeless to reply:

I.ll take the word of this nurse, one of his cabinet ministers, over this bus driver anytime (referring to the leader of the NDP). How arrogant is that, especially inside the legislature.