HALIFAX – It looks like Nova Scotian’s are divided on which party they would vote for.
According to quarterly poll results released today the NDP government, led by Premier Darrell Dexter, has the support of 35 per cent of the province’s voters, while Opposition Liberals, are narrowly behind with 33 per cent support.
Nova Scotia’s PC Party came in third with 28 per cent of voter support.
The poll conducted by Halifax-based Corporate Research Associates, surveyed 808 Nova Scotians between May 7 and June 4, 2012.
The number of decided voters who said they would vote for Dexter is down 9 per cent from CRA’s last poll in February, when the NDP had 44 per cent of voter support.
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It appears those who changed their minds were split on which party they would turn to in an election: The Liberals rose 6 per cent from 27 per cent, while the PC Party jumped 3 per cent from 25 per cent.
The news was also bad for the NDP’s overall performance in government and for Dexter himself.
McNeil is now the preferred choice for premier, with 27 per cent support to Dexter’s 23 per cent. It was an equal trade with Dexter dropping six per cent and McNeil rising by the same percentage.
Support for PC leader Jaimie Baillie was virtually unchanged at 21 per cent – a 1 per cent drop from February.
It was also the second quarter in a row Nova Scotians’ grew more dissatisfied with the Dexter government’s overall performance. According to CRA chair and CEO, more than half (52 per cent) of the province are unhappy with how the government is being run. Since November 2011, the NDP has plummeted by 14 per cent in its approval rating, when 55 per cent of the province supported the government’s work.
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