Canada's Conservative Party is set to win Tuesday's election, but without getting enough seats to form their long-sought majority government, according to a poll released Monday.
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Conservative leader and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a campaign rally at the airport in Fredericton, New Brunswick October 13, 2008. [Xinhua/Reuters Photo] |
The Canadian Press/Harris-Decima rolling survey, conducted throughout the five weeks of the election campaign, put support for the Conservatives at 34 percent, followed by Stephane Dion's Liberals at 25 percent.
The NDP stood at 19 percent, the Bloc Quebecois at 11, and the Greens at nine, according to the survey.
The release of the results comes as the party leaders scrambled to make their final appeals to voters across the vast country. Election law prohibits campaigning and the release of polling information on election day.
The Conservatives garnered 36 percent of the votes during the last election, winning 126 seats in the parliament and formed their first minority government after 13 years of Liberal rule.
(Xinhua News Agency October 14, 2008)
