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Liberal lead by 16.2 points; at this stage, the poll leader was overtaken in each of the last three elections

Where the polls stood 2 years and 11 months before each of the last three general elections, and what happened next. 2021 came early, so it is taken at the same distance from the election before. The biggest move from this point: Liberal in 2019, −14.6 points between the polls and the result.

Then and on polling day

The average of the polls around the same point in each cycle (each pollster counted once), the line to polling day, and the result. The dashed line is this point.

2025 16 May 2022
2 years and 11 months before polling day · 5 polls

Conservative led by 0.6. Liberal won the vote instead, by 2.5.

0 20 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Liberal 32.0 43.8 +11.8
Conservative 32.6 41.3 +8.7
NDP 19.6 6.3 −13.3
Bloc 6.2 6.3 +0.1
Green 4.3 1.2 −3.1
PPC 4.3 0.7 −3.6
2021 26 April 2021
18 months after the 2019 election · 18 polls

Liberal led by 7.0. Conservative won the vote instead, by 1.1.

0 10 20 30 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Liberal 36.0 32.6 −3.4
Conservative 29.0 33.7 +4.7
NDP 17.7 17.8 +0.1
Bloc 6.1 7.6 +1.5
Green 6.8 2.3 −4.5
PPC 3.1 4.9 +1.8
2019 7 November 2016
2 years and 11 months before polling day · 7 polls

Liberal led by 20.1. Conservative won the vote instead, by 1.2.

0 20 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Liberal 47.7 33.1 −14.6
Conservative 27.6 34.3 +6.7
NDP 13.9 16.0 +2.1
Bloc 4.5 7.6 +3.1
Green 5.7 6.6 +0.9

If the polls move as they did

Today's average, then each party moved by as much as it did between this point and polling day in each past cycle. Where a party did not stand, or polled under another name we cannot match, the cell is blank.

PartyToday As in 2025 As in 2021 As in 2019
Liberal 46.7 58.5 43.3 32.1
Conservative 30.5 39.2 35.2 37.2
NDP 10.9 0.0 11.0 13.0
Bloc 6.3 6.4 7.8 9.4
Green 2.5 0.0 0.0 3.4

Conservative would overtake in one of the three. A party's move in one cycle belongs to that campaign; this shows the size of change that has happened from here, not a forecast. Our forecast →

How this is worked out

For each past election we take every national voting-intention poll published in the fortnight either side of the same point (three weeks, or five where polls were sparse), average each pollster's polls, then average the pollsters.

Polls: Opinion polling for the 2019 Canadian federal election, Opinion polling for the 2021 Canadian federal election, Opinion polling for the 2025 Canadian federal election, Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Results: the national electoral authorities. Today: our poll average, updated with every poll.

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