Bonnie Crombie's Liberals are potential Ontario voters' second preference, according to a new poll
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
Pallas Data's automated telephone survey on June 4 was of 1,136 eligible voters. The result was a sample with a 2.9 percent margin of error at a 95 percent confidence level. Ford's PCs' first two majority mandates came from elections they won with 40.5 and 40.8 percent of votes, respectively. "There's also a strong personal brand to Doug Ford and he appeals to that base ... and as long as can keep those voters happy, they're going to win and there's not much that the NDP or the Liberals can do about it," Angolano said.
Pallas Data's survey also attempted to gauge whether parties' voters were most likely to cast a ballot strategically. NDP-inclined voters were most likely to say they'd vote for another party to stop the PCs from winning, followed by those favouring the Liberals , then respondents favouring the Greens . Most PC-inclined respondents selected an option suggesting their vote was firmly planted, while 31.
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