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New polls show voter intentions shifting in Canadian election
13:52, April 05, 2011 
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stumbleupon A week of negative radio and television ads targeting Liberal challenger Michael Ignatieff have not helped the ruling Conservative party stem its loss of support, a new poll has found.The latest Canadian Press/Harris-Decima survey released Monday found the Liberal party has made modest gains on the Conservative Party of incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The survey did contain some bad news for the Liberals. Their support has actually declined in Toronto, Canada's largest city, which is the main Liberal base. Constituencies in suburban Toronto, which used to be solid Liberal territory, have been targeted by the Conservatives.
Many of these constituencies have large numbers of immigrants from Asia. The Conservatives have worked hard in recent years to woo the votes of first and second-generation Canadians.
That work seems to have paid off, with the Conservatives running about 10 percent ahead in these key constituencies.
The poll put the Conservatives at 35 percent support, ahead of the Liberals at 28 percent. The NDP (New Democratic Party) was at 17 percent, while the Bloc Quebecois of the Quebec French-speaking separatists stood at 10 percent and the Green Party at 8 percent.
These figures are somewhat skewed because the Bloc Quebecois only runs candidates for Quebec's 75 parliamentary seats in the 308 seat House of Commons. In the rest of Canada, the Bloc Quebecois is not on the ballot.
The results are almost identical to the federal election standings that delivered a Conservative minority government in 2008.
However, the Conservatives began the campaign with 42 percent support among decided voters. The Harris Decima survey shows a shift in voter preference relatively early in the 35 day campaign. The political parties are expected to roll out new campaign promises before the May 2 election. Televised leaders' debates should also have an impact.
The Harris Decima telephone survey of 1,000 people was conducted between Thursday and Sunday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Those results offer partial support for the notion that the Liberals had a fairly good start to the campaign.
Canada's Parliament was dissolved after Prime Minister Harper's Conservative government failed to survive a non-confidence move on March 25 in the House of Commons.
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