If polls are to believed the NDP will have a convincing win on Tuesday night in Nova Scotia.
My previous post predicted the NDP would be on the cusp of a majority (winning 26 seats in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly gives you a majority if there is an opposition speaker and a minority with a government one) when the votes are counted.
Since there have been two new polls.
A CRA poll showed that in the last two weeks of May, the NDP surged substantially. Numbers from their early May poll and degree of change are in brackets:
NDP 44 (+7 from 37)
Lib 28 (-3 from 31)
PC 26 (-2 from 28)
An Angus Reid poll issued a few days later shows the NDP at an incredible 47, the Liberals at 26 and the PCs at 23.
If the NDP really are at 47%, things would be huge. If we were to assume the NDP was at 70% in the HRM, they would still be running at 35% everywhere else (higher than they ever have before). A more realistic number for the NDP would be 55% in the HRM (compared to 46.5% last time), which would give them nearly 43% in the rest of Nova Scotia.
Therefore, my revised prediction would be as follows:
NDP 36
Lib 10
PC 6
UPDATE:
So the final results were NDP 31, Lib 11, PC 10. Things actually turned out pretty well as I expected, except the Liberals did better in the HRM than I thought at the expense of the NDP and the PCs did better in Cape Breton than I thought at the expense of the Liberals.
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Looking at the latest NB provincial poll showing the NDP at 21%, it looks like the Nova Scotia elections may be having a "coattail" effect.
Actually, any comments about the lastest NB poll numbers showing the Liberals cratering and what it might mean for the other two parties, nbpolitico? There's a massive void in the NB blogoverse that isn't being filled :p
Not updated in five months, looks like this blog is as good as dead; with Spinks's exit too, all I have to say is: RIP New Brunswick blogosphere. Too bad.
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