Battle for second place tightens as CAQ headed towards majority: ballot

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Regardless of a seamless erosion of its lead in recognition, François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec stays headed for a majority authorities within the Oct. 3 Quebec election whereas the battle for second place — and the position of official opposition — turns into much more intense, a brand new ballot suggests.

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The Léger Advertising and marketing survey, performed for the Québecor media conglomerate within the wake of final Thursday’s leaders debate televised on Radio-Canada, exhibits the CAQ polling 37 per cent — a drop of 5 proportion factors for the reason that marketing campaign was launched on the finish of final month however however sufficient to position the occasion in majority territory. Within the 2018 election, the CAQ, garnering 37.4 per cent of the vote, received 74 of the 125 seats within the Nationwide Meeting.

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Québec solidaire holds a distant second place at 17 per cent, adopted by the Quebec Liberals with 16 per cent and the Quebec Conservative Social gathering and the Parti Québécois tied for the third spot with 15 per cent.

Whereas the survey discovered that 27 per cent of respondents felt that Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois of Québec solidaire can be your best option to be chief of the official opposition, 25 per cent felt that job ought to go to PQ Chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, 15 per cent supported Liberal Chief Dominque Anglade and 13 per cent favoured Conservative Chief Éric Duhaime.

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The actual fact St-Pierre Plamondon positioned second on the opposition chief query though his occasion has languished in final place for the reason that begin of the election marketing campaign is an indicator of how nicely the PQ marketing campaign has been managed. It’s additionally a mirrored image of an more and more constructive notion of St-Pierre Plamondon by the citizens.

The PQ’s recognition has elevated by six proportion factors for the reason that begin of the marketing campaign. Twenty-one per cent of respondents felt St-Pierre Plamondon had received the Radio-Canada debate in contrast with 12 per cent for Nadeau-Dubois, 10 per cent for Duhaime, 9 per cent for Legault and 6 per cent for Anglade.

The net survey of 1,023 Quebec adults was performed Sept. 23-25. Whereas no margin of error may be assigned to such a ballot, a sampling of this dimension in has a most margin of error of three.1 per cent 19 instances out of 20.