Nanos Party Power Index: Liberals scores highest, Harper hits new high on preferred PM front

The federal Liberals scored four points higher than the Conservatives on the most recent wave of the Nanos Party Power Index. The Grits registered 57 points out of 100 while the Tories were at 53 points, the NDP at 49 points, the Green Party at 31 points and the BQ at 27 points (QC only) respectively. After shifts over the past two months, the week over week index has been relatively steady.

The Nanos Party Power Index methodology is comprised of 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.

Of note, Harper has hit his highest weekly score on the preferred Prime Minister measure since August 2013 when Nanos began its weekly tracking. On the preferred Prime Minister front, Harper was at 33.3 percentage points, followed by Trudeau at 30.7 per cent, Mulcair at 18.6 per cent, May at 3.3 per cent and 13.2 per cent of Canadians were unsure.

Readers should note that with more than 12 months of weekly tracking, Nanos is now calculating highs, lows and averages for the key Nanos tracking variables in the public domain. This will allow our subscribers and clients to better contextualize the data.

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