In the days following the Liberal majority victory in the federal election, Justin Trudeau's numbers on the measure of preferred prime minister are up, according to the latest weekly tracking from Nanos Research.
For the period ending Oct. 23, 39.2 per cent of Canadians said they preferred Justin Trudeau as prime minister. For the period ending Oct. 18, 35.5 per cent of Canadians had said they preferred Trudeau as prime minister.
Meanwhile, 26.5 per cent of Canadians said they preferred Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as prime minister for the period ending Oct. 23, followed by NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair at 17.6 per cent, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May at 4.5 per cent, and former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe/New BQ Leader Rheal Fortin at 1.6 per cent. Additionally, 10.6 per cent of Canadians were unsure.
When asked a series of independent questions regarding each of the party leaders, 65.2 per cent said Trudeau had the qualities of a good political leader, 55.8 per cent said Mulcair had them, 51.7 per cent said Harper had them, 54.7 per cent said Duceppe/Fortin had them, and 32.8 per cent said May had them.
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Methodology
The interviews are compiled into a four week rolling average of 1,000 interviews where each week, the oldest group of 250 interviews is dropped and a new group of 250 interviews is added. The current wave of tracking is based on the final weekend of the election writ period ending Oct. 18th as well as the one week period ending Oct. 23rd. As we move forward, the tracking will revert to a four-week rolling average of 1,000 Canadians (250 per week).
A random telephone survey of 1,000 Canadians is accurate 3.1 percentage points, plus or minus, 19 times out of 20.
