Guelph could be keeping its federal Liberal-voting trend alive on Oct. 21.

According to a poll conducted by iPolitics and Mainstreet Research, the Liberals are on top for local support, coming in at 44.1 per cent.

The poll results, released as part of the two firms’ daily election tracker, stem from a survey of 630 people conducted Sept. 30. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 per cent.

Lloyd Longfield is running for a second term in Guelph. Should he win on election day, it would continue the trend started by Brenda Chamberlain in 1993, when she won the former Guelph-Wellington riding for the Liberals.

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The battle for second place is a much tighter race, with the Green party polling at 23.3 per cent and the Conservatives at 21. 9 per cent.

The Greens, with candidate Steve Dyck, are hoping to replicate the success Mike Schreiner had at the provincial level when he won the riding last year. The Conservatives, with candidate Ashish Sachan, are looking to do something Guelph has not done since 1988, when Bill Winegard, under the former federal Progressive Conservative party, was voted in for a second term.

The rest of the poll is rounded out with the NDP, at 6.2 per cent, the People’s Party of Canada at 3.8 per cent, and other candidates at 0.7 per cent.

Although the Liberals have a healthy double-digit lead in Guelph, the same cannot be said nationally.

In another poll, also conducted by iPolitics and Mainstreet Research, between Oct. 6 and 8, the Conservatives and Liberals are in a virtual tie, picking up 29.8 per cent and 29.3 per cent, respectively.

The poll included 2,445 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus two per cent.