Breakdown: First riding-level polls show Conservative support slipping across the country
Advocacy organization Leadnow targets 13 swing ridings in strategic voting campaign
Riding-level polls for a baker’s dozen of Canada’s most hotly contested electoral districts were released Thursday by online advocacy organization Leadnow. They paint a picture of a Conservative government whose support is swiftly evaporating in the face of growing “anyone but Harper” sentiment among Canadians.
Leadnow, which describes itself as non-partisan but anti-Harper, released the polls in conjunction with the launch of a new campaign called Vote Together, which aims to defeat the Conservatives through strategic voting.
“We’ve identified 72 Conservative swing ridings across the country,” said Amara Possian, Leadnow’s election campaign manager, “places where the Conservatives could win with less than 50 per cent of the vote, and we are helping our half-a-million-person community channel resources into places that matter the most. These 72 ridings will decide whether Harper wins again.”
Targetting 13 ridings for the first phase of the campaign, Leadnow hired Environics Research to conduct telephone surveys of approximately 500 people in each riding. In total, 7,573 Canadians were surveyed between August 15 and 18.
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