Liberals trail NDP by just four points in Forum Research poll
Posted May 2, 2013 7:48 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – With less than two weeks to go until election day, a new poll is suggesting the gap between the NDP and the Liberals is beginning to narrow.
The Forum Research survey was done following Monday’s televised leaders debate.
The NDP still has a 39 per cent lead, but this time the Liberals are very close behind with the 35 per cent. Compare this to the last Forum Research poll released at the end of August 2012, which put the NDP at 45 per cent and the Liberals at 23 per cent with the BC Conservatives at 20.
Since then, the Conservatives have collapsed to a fourth-place nine per cent and the Greens have moved up to 12 per cent support.
This latest poll also gets into seat projections; Forum says these numbers would translate into just a one-seat New Democrat majority, given our first-past-the-post system.
It should be noted that Forum was the same company that predicted the Wildrose party would win a bare majority in last year’s Alberta provincial election, which was won quite handily by Premier Alison Redford and the Conservatives.
