CBC: Liberals pull even with Tories: EKOS poll

[tuvor]

Michael Ignatieff's Liberals have pulled into an end-of-summer dead heat with Stephen Harper's Conservatives, according to a new EKOS poll.

According to the poll results, released exclusively to CBC News, 29.4 per cent of respondents would vote for the Tories if an election were held today, compared with 29.1 per cent for the Liberals. The difference is well within the poll's margin of error.

The Conservatives held a comfortable 11-point lead over the Liberals at the beginning of the summer, but have faced mounting criticism for their moves to scrap the mandatory long-form census and the federal long-gun registry.

In the latest poll, the NDP's support dropped to 15.7 per cent, down from 17.4 per cent two weeks ago, while support for the Green Party rose almost three percentage points to 13 per cent, according to EKOS.

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http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/09/01/ekos-poll-voter-intention.html

[JBoy]

1. The Globe posted the historical trend of this poll

[leahcim]

2. If instant runoff voting were implemented...

...almost all of those NDP and Green votes would be Liberal votes. What I see in the chart is an overwhelming majority favouring parties to the left of the current government, but splitting their vote between several parties leaving the unified Tories in power.

[daleo]

3. NDP+Greens now poll same as Cons or Libs

It would be an interesting Parliament if we had proportional representation.