From the National Post – April 27, 2011

by Kathryn Blaze Carlson

Conservative leader Stephen Harper no longer enjoys a comfortable
lead ahead of the surging NDP, as a new poll shows the left-leaning
party swelling to within just a few points of the reigning Tories.

According to the latest Forum Research poll, Jack Layton’s party
enjoys the support of 31% of those surveyed — only three points behind
the governing Conservatives, who fell to 34% from the 36% support the
party gleaned as of April 21. The Liberals, having been reduced to third
place in a slew of recent polls, dwindled to 22% in this latest survey,
while the Bloc Quebecois remained unchanged at 6%.

If these numbers are reflected on polling day, the NDP could grow
from 37 to 108 seats in the House of Commons, forming the official
opposition in a Parliament that would host 137 Tory MPs, 60 Liberals,
and just 3 Bloc representatives. The poll, based on a telephone survey
of 3,150 randomly selected eligible voters across the country, was
conducted on Tuesday.

“With the NDP continuing to gain steam from coast to coast, and both the
Liberal and Conservative party support lagging, the key question now is
whether the NDP have the ground troops to deliver their vote on
election day,” Lorne Bozinoff, president of Forum Research, said in a
press release.

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