The NDP are now out in front on the Nanos Party Power Index, having surpassed both the Liberals and the Conservatives this week.

Tom Mulcair’s party jumped up two points compared to last week, and sit at 55 points out of a possible 100:

NDP: 55 (up two points)

Liberals: 54 (up one point)

Conservatives: 52 (down one point)

Green: 31 (down one point)

Bloc: 26 (down one point)

For the first time the NDP tops the Nanos Party Power Index, and the party also tops another aspect of the latest political survey. Posted by CTV News on Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Mulcair on the move

While the New Democrats have been trending upwards for a few months, for the first time now we’re seeing positive movement in terms of Mulcair’s personal brand.

The NDP leader was the preferred prime minister of 25 per cent of respondents, and though he still trails Prime Minister Stephen Harper (29 per cent) and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau (27 per cent), he’s jumped up five points over the past two weeks, and nearly 10 points since March.

New leader on the Bloc

Bloc Quebecois leader Mario Beaulieu is set to hand the reins back to former party leader Gilles Duceppe, according to sources.

And though the Bloc performed poorly in the 2011 election under Duceppe, he still had a relatively large following and popular personal brand when he stepped down.

It’s difficult to say how much his return will bolster the Bloc, but with Beaulieu currently polling around one per cent in terms of preferred prime minister, the numbers have the potential to shift in the coming weeks.

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 June 5th, 2015. It is considered accurate plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.