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The Official Opposition has benefited the most from the anger over electricity rates.

Support for the provincial Progressive Conservative grew seven points over the summer, the poll shows.

The Tories lead the Liberals at 30 per cent to 26 per cent — but within the margin of error. Twenty per cent support the NDP, six per cent the Green Party and 11 per cent don’t know, six per cent don’t support anyone and one per cent would vote for someone else.

Two thirds of voters (66 per cent) feel it’s “time for change” and most of them (50 per cent of the entire sample) say they feel “strongly” about it. Of that 66 per cent, 17 per cent would still support the Liberals but want change within the party’s leadership.

All three party leaders are essentially tied for the role of “best premier”: 22 per cent support PC leader Patrick Brown, 19 per cent NDP leader Andrea Horwath and 18 per cent Wynne. That’s within the poll’s four per cent margin of error.

But Wynne’s overall performance is in the dumps. Her “net favourability” (the number of people who have a positive view of her work less those who have a negative opinion of her) is -34 per cent versus a 20 per cent positive for Horwath and a 9 per cent positive for Brown. The PC leader, who took the party reins in May 2015, still suffers from poor name recognition, however, with 56 per cent saying they still don’t recognize him.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus four per cent, 19 times out of 20.

Innovative Research group poll for Ontario Energy Association on politics and power