No Quebec-style bump in polls for NDP in Ontario

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The surge of the New Democratic Party in Quebec appears to be holding strong but a new survey conducted by Nanos Research suggests there has been no similar bump for the NDP in Ontario, where elections are won and lost.

And the strong potential for vote splitting in Quebec between Jack Layton’s NDP and the Bloc Québécois could allow the Liberals and the Conservatives to win seats that would otherwise have been out of their reach.

“When people reflect on this campaign, it’s going to be about two things,” Nik Nanos, president of Nanos Research said Sunday. First of all, “it is about Jack Layton in Quebec, and the other thing is the question of Conservative minority or majority.”

To this point, most public opinion surveys show the Conservatives well ahead of the other parties but below the levels they need for a comfortable walk to a majority government.

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