Premier Kathleen Wynne’s minority Liberals appear on track to lose byelections next month to both the Progressive Conservatives and the New Democrats, new polls suggest.

Forum Research surveys show the New Democrats should romp to victory in Windsor-Tecumseh on Aug. 1 while the Tories could win London West — and possibly even former premier Dalton McGuinty’s seat of Ottawa South.

“Windsor and London are pretty much a write-off for the Liberals,” Forum president Lorne Bozinoff said Thursday.

In Windsor-Tecumseh, which had been held by former treasurer Dwight Duncan since 1995, NDP candidate Percy Hatfield, a local councillor, polled at 52 per cent. Tory engineer Robert de Verteuil was at 22 per cent and Liberal business owner Jeewen Gill was at 17 per cent.

The Greens — who have yet to nominate a candidate so Forum used 2011 nominee Justin Levesque in the poll — were at six per cent.

Forum used automated voice-response phone calls to survey 287 people in Windsor-Tecumseh on Wednesday and results are considered accurate to within six percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

“Without Dwight Duncan . . . it’s going to be really, really tough,” said Bozinoff.

Things also look bleak for the governing party in London West, represented by former energy minister Chris Bentley for the past decade.

Tory lawyer Ali Chahbar was at 36 per cent, ahead of the NDP’s Peggy Sattler, a Thames Valley District School Board trustee, at 29 per cent, Liberal Ken Coran at 24 per cent, and the Greens’ Gary Brown at eight per cent.

Coran, the former president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, appears to be backfiring as a star candidate, said Bozinoff.

“If someone comes across as being inauthentic, I think it really hurts these days in politics,” the pollster said, noting voters are repelled by “political expediency.”

“That could blow up in the Liberals’ face,” he said in reference to Coran campaigning for the NDP in the September 2012 Kitchener-Waterloo byelection when the teachers’ unions were battling McGuinty.

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In London West, Forum polled 471 people on Wednesday and results are considered accurate to within five percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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Ottawa South — held by McGuinty for 23 years and by his late father, Dalton, Sr., from 1987 to 1990 — is shaping up as a dogfight.

Liberal John Fraser, the former premier’s long-time constituency aide, was at 42 per cent just ahead of Tory businessman Matt Young at 38 per cent.

The New Democrats haven’t selected their candidate, so Forum polled using Wali Farah, the party’s 2011 nominee and one of two hopefuls vying for the nomination Saturday. Farah was at 17 per cent.

A nomination meeting for the Greens in Ottawa South isn’t set until July 13, so Forum used 2011 candidate James Mihaychuk in the survey and he was at 4 per cent.

Forum polled 404 Ottawa South residents on Wednesday and results are considered accurate to within five percentage points, 19 out of 20.

“It’s possible the Liberals are going to retain that one, but I think they have a fight on their hands,” said Bozinoff. “The other parties know that that riding is winnable.”

Wynne also called byelections in Etobicoke-Lakeshore and Scarborough-Guildwood to choose successors for retired Grits Laural Broten and Margarett Best.

A Forum poll of 442 people in Etobicoke-Lakeshore last Friday — with results accurate to within five percentage points, 19 times out of 20 — had the Liberals at 50 per cent to 25 per cent for Tories, 21 per cent for the New Democrats, and 2 per cent for the Greens.

But that was before Councillor Peter Milczyn was named the Liberal candidate and Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday the PC standard-bearer. The NDP has yet to nominate a candidate while the Greens are fielding Angela Salewsky.

In Scarborough-Guildwood, Mitzie Hunter, the CivicAction chief executive office, is the Liberal candidate while realtor Ken Kirupa, a past president of the Canadian Tamils’ Chamber of Commerce, is running for the Tories. The NDP and Greens have yet to select candidates.

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