Ontario Politics With Just Over 7 Months To "E" Day Liberals(38%) Lead Tories (33%), NDP (17%) And Green (9%)

Toronto, ON - According to a new Ipsos Reid survey of Ontarians conducted for CanWest/ Global News and CFRB, Dalton McGuinty's provincial Liberal Party (38%) has a 5-point lead over John Tory's Conservative Party (33%) with just over seven months to go until Election Day on October 4, 2007. Meanwhile, Howard Hampton's NDP (17%) and Frank de Jong's Green Party (9%) trail the front runners. Ten percent are "undecided".

And, with the party leaders running virtually even with their party vote, Ontarians are split as to who they think would make the best Premier: Dalton McGuinty at 35% followed by John Tory at 33% and Howard Hampton at 16%. One in seven (15%) say they "don't know".

These are the findings of an Ipsos Reid poll provided to CanWest/Global and CFRB fielded from February 6-15th, 2007. For the survey, a representative randomly selected sample of 771 adult residents of Ontario was interviewed by telephone. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within 177 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult population of Ontario been polled. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were weighted to ensure the sample's regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual population of Ontario according to Census data.

Tracking:

Thinking of how you feel right now, if a PROVINCIAL election were held tomorrow, which of the following parties' candidates would you, yourself, be most likely to support ?

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