Liberals suffer BIG DECLINE in 2025 - Carney fears a 2026 election!
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Summary
In this video, I take you through where Mark Carney's Liberals were on election night in April, and where they are now based on polling averages across all of the different regions. I'm even using a polling average that includes pro-liberal pollsters like ECOS.
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Ahoy everyone, Wyatt Claypool here, back for the final time in the year 2025 to break down some Canadian national polling numbers.
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In this video, I want to take you guys through where Mark Carney's Liberals were on election night in April,
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and where they are now based on polling averages across all of the different regions.
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I'm even going to be using a polling average that includes pollsters like ECOS.
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It's not just that I don't like ECOS, they're not accurate.
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They're obviously a very pro-liberal pollster that uses very heavily liberal samples, but it only makes my point better.
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I can use polling averages that are going to be leaning more liberal than reality is,
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and it will still show Carney's Liberals have had a significant decline since the April federal election.
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And if I take Prime Minister Mark Carney at his word that this is a new liberal government,
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then it is possibly one of the fastest declining new governments in Canadian history in terms of their support.
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Because usually a new government, a truly new government, you know,
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it was previously one party that was in power and now it's a new party,
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that party typically gets the benefit of the doubt from Canadians for at least a few years.
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They usually have one or two years where even if they're not doing a great job,
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Let's wait and see what they actually do over a few years.
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but as people started noticing he's not that much different than Justin Trudeau
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he fell far below where he was at his peak and now he's actually below election day.
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It's not a very good position for Carney to be in going into 2026,
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considering we are likely to have another federal election
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and he is at his weakest point since becoming Prime Minister.
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Anyways, now I want to take you guys through the different regions
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I'm just showing you where the liberals are at on the left side here.
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And then on the right side, this is going to be sort of like the now side.
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What is currently taking place in terms of the polling averages?
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And I will write down all the parties on the right.
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And I will tell you if the conservatives are up or the NDP is up
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or even if the conservatives are down on the side.
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I'm not trying to hide the ball by not showing you where the conservatives
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or the other parties were on the left-hand side here.
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It's just things would not fit if I wrote it all down.
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But there were a lot of areas of Canada where if you saw how good the liberals did,
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Ontario was going to be a pretty difficult province to do that well.
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And again, same as Atlantic Canada, 56% in Atlantic, 49% in Ontario,
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and even 42% is very, is screamingly high for the liberals out in Quebec.
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Because remember, the Bloc Québécois are also in Quebec.
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So it's a five-party or six-party race in many of those ridings.
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Yeah, the conservatives don't do well at all in Montreal,
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but still 42%, getting close to a majority of the vote is quite a bit in Quebec.
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And I think that it was never going to be sustainable for the liberals in the long run,
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unless they just started knocking out of the park when it comes to their policy.
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There are too many lefty ideologues who work in this liberal government still.
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That makes it impossible for them to actually pivot in a more positive direction.
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But let's take this thing from the top to the bottom.
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We will start off with British Columbia polling averages.
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And remember, this is the stuff I'm taking from Polling Canada.
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And they, in fact, do use the ECOS polling, Spark Insight polling,
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all these pollsters that have a very liberal urban sampling bias.
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And what they currently have the averages at for British Columbia,
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and they did not actually win British Columbia in the last election.
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They got about 40% of the vote, or 41, and the liberals got 42.
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The conservatives, who have declined a little bit since election day,
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We'll even, I'll just throw 37.8 if I'm not saying 37.5 for them.
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And the NDP has had the biggest resurgence there,
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which is great considering, I believe, on election night,
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so they've gained a few more points in British Columbia.
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And the Green Party of Canada has even gone up in BC,
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having now gotten to 6% when they were at around 3% in the last election.
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This, these are great gains for the conservatives relative to the liberals.
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there tends to be a little bit more friction in the polling between elections,
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because my mother was nice enough to get me a pointy stick for Christmas
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now down to 37.8 for the liberals in British Columbia.
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And that was even a 42% that I had even rounded up from.
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And again, they're in the driver's seat of policy right now.
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Alberta's not going to be much of a shock to you guys.
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In fact, I think technically the conservatives are down a little bit in Alberta
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And it's not even a bad thing that the liberal or the conservatives are down a little bit.
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The liberals are at 26.4%, which is actually them going down by a little bit.
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The NDP is around 10% right now, despite on election day,
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I think they got like eight or something like that.
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The only seat that they end up retaining was Heather McPherson's.
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And I think that most of that PPC would just go towards the conservatives
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because I don't see the PPC actually surviving that long.
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It's just Saskatchewan and Manitoba combined effectively.
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Conservatives in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are at 52.
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Liberals are at 31.7%, which is actually a bit of a decline.
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But let's just say that it's effectively an even province for them.
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And then no one else has any significant amount of vote after that.
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But let's now move on to Ontario, which is obviously a big one here.
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This is where the Liberals are getting the lion's share of their vote.
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Liberals in Ontario are down five points on average.
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Again, this is with pollsters like ECOS added in,
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Conservatives are at 40%, which effectively represents them
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I think they were at like 41% on election night, 42% on a couple points.
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New Democrats, who were actually only at 5% in Ontario last election,
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And we have the Green Party at about 3.5% as well,
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It may even set them up to win back one of the seats
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so that might not be as great for the Conservatives.
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in terms of seat counts when we get to a new election.
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This is obviously where it gets more interesting
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because this is not a normal province to be around for elections.
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We have the Liberals now here at 37.5% in Quebec.
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even though I believe they're only at 27 or 28 election day.
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And then we have the Conservative Party at 19%,
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They pretty much always win the same seven seats
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where all of that 6% is pretty much concentrated.
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There can sometimes be some pro-Conservative areas
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for, like, what is that, $32,000 of your taxes?