Liberals, Conservatives statistically tied, NDP a distant third: Ekos-CP poll
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are statistically tied with a resurgent Conservative Opposition as they near the midway point of their four-year mandate, while the NDP’s new leader finds himself facing a familiar electoral challenge, a new poll suggests.
The poll, conducted by Ekos Research and commissioned for The Canadian Press, puts the governing Liberals at 34 per cent and the Conservatives at 33 per cent, while the New Democrats — still smarting from a disappointing 2015 campaign — remain a distant third at 15 per cent.
The Ekos-Canadian Press poll, which surveyed 4,839 people via both cellphone and land line during the last two weeks of September, carries a margin of error of plus or minus 1.4 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Its findings suggest the Liberals have finally been forced to confront the political realities of Parliament Hill after more than a year of flying high on a massive lead in public support following the 2015 election, said Ekos president Frank Graves.