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Polls & Odds
Canada's election numbers, two ways: what the polls measure, and what prediction markets are willing to bet. When the two disagree, that's the story.
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Updated October 30 at 8:22 a.m. ET
Federal vote intention
The Liberals lead by 16.9 points on our weighted average.
Little movement in the polls this week.
Lines: weighted rolling average. Dots: individual published polls (240 national polls). Hover for the average on any date.
If the vote were held today
A Liberal majority in more than 99 of 100 simulations; their range runs 210–248 seats.
Regional swing applied to the 45th GE 2025-04-28 riding-by-riding results, 10,000 simulations. A simpler model than dedicated seat projections — read the ranges, not the point estimates.
Province by province
Who leads federal vote intention where provincial polls exist.
Shading deepens with the leader's margin. Provinces use dedicated provincial polls where fresh; otherwise we use the provincial crosstabs printed in recent national releases — pooled across two or more (marked “pooled”), or a single large stated subsample (marked as such). Atlantic Canada and Saskatchewan + Manitoba are shaded as blocks because pollsters publish them that way. The territories are almost never polled.
Leader favourability
Weighted average of the last 12 favourability releases per leader (same recency/sample-size weighting as the vote-intention average above; weight halves every 14 days). Net favourability is the share holding a positive view minus the share holding a negative one; the remainder is undecided/unsure.
6 polls, latest Liaison Strategies 2026-10-17
The polls behind the average
Weighted average of the last 12 national polls (weight halves every 14 days and grows with sample size but stops growing past 5,000 respondents; a pollster releasing several polls within 14 days has each one weighted down, and no single pollster exceeds 31% of the total weight).
| Pollster | Date | LPC | CPC | NDP | BQ | GPC | PPC | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacus Data | 2026-10-21 | 48 | 32 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1,500 |
| Liaison Strategies | 2026-10-17 | 45 | 30 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1,000 |
| Nanos Research | 2026-10-16 | 50.6 | 28.3 | 11.5 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 1,016 |
| Abacus Data | 2026-10-13 | 46 | 34 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3,197 |
| Léger | 2026-10-12 | 48 | 33 | 8 | – | – | – | 1,525 |
| Liaison Strategies | 2026-10-10 | 45 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1,263 |
| Nanos Research | 2026-10-09 | 48.8 | 29.5 | 11.1 | 6.4 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1,034 |
| Liaison Strategies | 2026-10-03 | 46 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1,526 |
| Nanos Research | 2026-10-02 | 49.1 | 28.2 | 10.9 | 6.3 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 1,020 |
| EKOS Research | 2026-10-02 | 47 | 26 | 15 | – | – | – | 2,020 |
| Liaison Strategies | 2026-09-26 | 46 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1,526 |
| Nanos Research | 2026-09-25 | 49.9 | 27.9 | 11 | 5.6 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 1,022 |
What prediction markets price
Live Polymarket prices, read as implied probabilities. Markets reflect bettors, not voters.
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Methodology. The polling average is a weighted average of the most recent national polls of the 46th federal election: each poll's weight halves every 14 days and grows with sample size, though it stops growing past 5,000 respondents. Because pollsters publish at very different rates, a firm releasing several polls within 14 days has each of those polls weighted down, and no single pollster contributes more than 35% of the total weight — so a weekly tracker cannot dominate the average. The seat projection applies each party's regional swing — our current regional standing minus its 2025 result — to all 343 ridings' official 45th general election results (Elections Canada), then runs 10,000 simulations with a ±3-point correlated regional error and ±4.5-point riding-level noise. It is deliberately simpler than dedicated seat models (no incumbency, candidate or riding effects): read the ranges, not the point estimates. The trend line applies the same average at weekly steps; each dot is one published poll. Poll figures are compiled into Open Data Canada's own poll registry directly from each polling firm's published releases — Léger, Abacus Data, Nanos Research, Liaison Strategies, EKOS, Mainstreet Research and others; where the release is public, the pollster's name in the table links to it. Provincial shading uses a dedicated provincial poll where we have a recent one; where we don't, we fall back to the provincial crosstabs printed inside national releases — pooled across at least two releases, or taken from a single release when the pollster states a regional sample of at least 400 respondents. Crosstab subsamples carry larger error than full provincial polls, and each province's source is named on the map. Prediction-market probabilities are live prices from Polymarket — the share price of a contract paying $1 if the outcome happens, read as the market's implied probability; markets under US$25,000 traded are flagged as thin, since a handful of bettors can move them. A poll measures support today; a market prices the final outcome — they answer different questions, which is exactly why comparing them is informative. Leader favourability is a separate weighted average of net positive-minus-negative ratings for each federal leader, built the same way as the vote-intention average, from releases by Abacus Data, Angus Reid Institute and Liaison Strategies; Nanos Research's "preferred prime minister" horse-race question measures something different and is excluded. This page is not affiliated with any pollster, party, or Polymarket.