[VANCOUVER – Jan. 29, 2009] - The federal budget did little to change the perceptions of Canadians on the federal political parties, a new Toronto Star / Angus Reid poll has found.
KEY FINDINGS
Voting Intention: Con. 38%, Lib. 29%, NDP 18%, BQ 8%, Grn. 6%
41% say Harper has a clear plan to deal with the economic crisis; 26% say Ignatieff does
39% have confidence in Harper to find the right solutions for the Canadian economy; 38% trust Ignatieff
36% think Ignatieff is sensitive to the needs of their province; 32% think Harper is
In the online survey of a representative national sample, 38 per cent of respondents (-1) say they would vote for the governing Conservative Party in the next federal election, followed by the Liberal Party with 29 per cent (-1), the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 18 per cent (+1), the Bloc Québécois with eight per cent (-1), and the Green Party with six per cent (+1).
The Tories and the NDP maintain their respective share of the vote in the October 2008 federal contest, the Bloc and the Greens are slightly below their total in the last federal ballot, and the Liberals remain above the 26 per cent they received under Stéphane Dion last year. Full topline results are at the end of this release.
On January 27, 2009 Angus Reid Strategies conducted an online survey among 1,020 randomly selected Canadian adults who are Angus Reid Forum panelists. The margin of error—which measures sampling variability—is +/- 3.0%, 19 times out of 20. The results have been statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender and region Census data to ensure a sample representative of the entire adult population of Canada. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding.
The Tories are still particularly popular in Alberta (72%), Manitoba and Saskatchewan (46%) and British Columbia (44%).
The Liberals are just five points behind the Bloc in Quebec (31% to 26%) and have clearly become the second choice in BC, eight points ahead of the NDP.
In Ontario, the Conservatives hold an eight-point advantage over the Liberals (41% to 33%)
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