For the fourth week in a row, the Bloc Quebecois and leader Gilles Duceppe have made strides on the Nanos Party Power Index.
Though the NDP are still sitting on top, the Bloc is up to 32 points out of a possible 100, a six-point improvement from where they stood a month ago.
- NDP: 55 (no change)
- Liberals: 51 (down one point)
- Conservatives: 50 (down one point)
- Green: 32 (up one point)
- Bloc: 32 (up two points)
In line with the Green Party
Since swapping out leaders four weeks ago, the Bloc has climbed in line with Elizabeth May’s Green Party, and are now tied on the Nanos Index as Canada’s fourth-most prominent political party.
Duceppe’s party is also the highest it’s been on the index since August of 2013.
12-month low for Liberals
In terms of accessible voters – voters who say they would consider voting for a certain party – Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are now sitting at a 12-month low. Just 43 per cent of those polled said they would consider voting for the Liberals, down more than 10 per cent from where they were at the beginning of the year.
The NDP still have the highest percentage of accessible voters with 52 per cent, compared to the Conservatives’ 41 per cent, the Bloc’s 40 per cent (in Quebec) and the Green Party’s 28 per cent.
The Nanos Party Power Index comprises a basket of political goods that includes ballot preferences, accessible voters, preferred PM views and evaluations of the leaders. It is modeled similar to a standard confidence index. The results are based on a four-week rolling average of opinion solicited through a random telephone survey of 1,000 Canadians in the period ending July 3rd, 2015. It is considered accurate plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
