The Liberals are continuing to shed support in the face of leader Justin Trudeau’s brownface and blackface scandal, falling behind the Conservatives for the first time since the campaign started, according to new numbers from Mainstreet Research’s daily tracking poll released Sunday.

Compared to Saturday’s results, Liberal support dropped 1.9 percentage points to fall to 33.9 per cent among decided and leaning voters, while the Conservatives rose by 0.7 points to 34.8 per cent. The NDP also jumped by 0.7 points to rise to 11.4 per cent, while support for the Greens moved 0.4 points to 10.7 per cent, the Bloc nudged up by 0.1 to 4.9 per cent and People’s Party grew by 0.3 points to 3.6 per cent.

These survey numbers capture three days of polling since the emergence of photos and videos of Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface. They also represent some of the biggest single-day movement recorded by the tracking poll this campaign.

The small Conservative lead falls within the survey’s margin of error, which is plus or minus 2.13 percentage points at the 95 per cent confidence level, according to Mainstreet.

The numbers come from a telephone survey of 2,124 Canadian voters conducted between Sept. 19 and 21. As a daily tracking poll, it’s consistently updated to provide a snapshot of voter preferences over the past three days.

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