NDP Losing Quebec Coeur

A new poll suggests the NDP is up in Ontario, down in Quebec this month.

A national poll taken in mid-December suggests that the federal New Democratic Party is losing its ground in Quebec. In the province that prompted the Orange Wave, where the party swept 59 of Quebec's 75 ridings in the federal election, the NDP has fallen from 37.7 per cent to 33.4 per cent in popular support. Analysts point to the ongoing leadership race and the nomination of a unilingual Supreme Court judge as likely causes for the decline. The federal election’s biggest loser, the Bloc Québécois, seems to have benefited from the shift, moving up 4 per cent in the polls since November. The Nanos Research Poll also found that nationally, the Conservatives and the NDP made modest gains in popularity this month as the Liberals fell over 2 per cent.