Liberals 56 points, Conservatives 51 points, NDP 49 points on Nanos Party Power Index

The first wave of weekly tracking in the Nanos Party Power Index pegged the federal Liberals at 56 points out of 100 followed by the Conservatives at 51 points, the NDP at 49 points, the Green Party at 31 points and the BQ at 25 points (QC only).

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.

For the second week in succession the NDP have hit a 12 month high on their level of accessible voter tracking. Asked which parties they would consider or not consider voting for through a series of independent questions, 55 per cent of Canadians would consider voting for the Liberals, 47 per cent would consider voting NDP, 42 percent would consider voting for the Conservatives and 27 per cent would consider voting for the Green Party.

Asked which federal party leader they would prefer as prime minister, Harper realised a three point lead over Trudeau. Thirty three per cent of Canadians preferred Harper as PM followed by 30 per cent who preferred Trudeau, 18 per cent Mulcair, four per cent May and 13 per cent 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.

Read the full Nanos Research report here…