Federal Poll: Grits (37%, +1 Point) Hold 10-Point Lead Over Tories (27%, -1 Point)

Toronto, ON - With talk of a very possible late-fall federal election swirling around the nation's capital a new Ipsos Reid survey conducted for CanWest/Global reveals a substantial 10-point gap in decided voter support between Paul Martin and the Liberals (37%, +1 point from an August 16-18th survey) and Stephen Harper and the Conservatives (27%, -1 point). The NDP (17%, -1 point) and the Green Party (4%, -2 points) trail the two leading parties distantly.

In Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois (58%, +11 points) has gained substantial ground since the last survey and now hold a 32-point lead over the Liberals (26%, unchanged).

These are the findings of an Ipsos Reid poll conducted for CanWest/Global and fielded from September 27th to September 29th 2005. For the survey, a representative randomly selected sample of 1000 adult Canadians were interviewed by telephone. With a sample of this size, the aggregate results are considered accurate to within 1773.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult Canadian population been polled. The margin of error will be larger within each sub-grouping of the survey population. These data were weighted to ensure the sample's regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual Canadian population according to the 2001 Census data. Please open the attached PDF to view the factum and detailed tables.

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Darrell Bricker
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Ipsos-Reid Public Affairs
(416) 324-2900