PCs dominate, NDP makes further gains: poll
The New Democrats gaining strength in Newfoundland and Labrador's election campaign at the expense of the Liberals, a public opinion poll released Tuesday suggests.
MQO Research, an affiliate of St. John's marketing company M5, found that 53 per cent of decided voters support the governing Progressive Conservatives, while 29 per cent support the NDP. The Liberals trail at 18 per cent, said the poll.
The poll, conducted between last Friday and Sunday in the lead-up to Monday's official campaign launched, involved 413 adults, who were contacted over the phone or online. A survey with a probability sample of this size has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 per cent.
The MQO poll, which found that 20 per cent of the public is undecided, comes two weeks after the release of a Corporate Research Associates poll, which had the same margin of error and which was conducted over the last 16 days in August.
The CRA poll pegged support for the PCs at 54 per cent, with the NDP at 24 per cent and the Liberals at 22 per cent.
"The numbers are pretty stable, as far as the Tories are concerned," PC Leader Kathy Dunderdale told reporters in Labrador West.
"It's pretty early days still. So it's a good way to start."
