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Propelled in part by the success of provincial New Democrats in Alberta, the federal NDP has surged into a statistical three-way tie with the Conservatives and Liberals, new poll numbers suggest.

The EKOS poll for iPolitics shows the Conservatives with 30 per cent of decided voters, the NDP with 29.1 and the Liberals with 27.

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The poll was conducted from May 6 to 12, and included the date of the Alberta election. The sample size for the automated interactive phone survey was 2,177.

With a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, the poll suggests the upcoming election could be a three-way race between Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, Tom Mulcair’s NDP and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

The sudden upsurge in NDP support contradicts some previous surveys that have predicted a two-way battle between the Tories and Grits in the Oct. 19 election.

Earlier this month, the NDP scored a historic win in Alberta as leader Rachel Notley ousted Jim Prentice’s Progressive Conservatives after more than 40 years in power.