| Whether you are a Canadian or not you might be | | | | This university in British Columbia has a great |
| interested in Canadian politics and want to know | | | | website that takes scientific averages of five polls |
| where to find a good resource for Canadian | | | | at a time and plots them on a grid while including |
| political polls. Please note that I am referring to | | | | what they call "meaningless variations" which add |
| scientific polls only -- ones done by polling | | | | to the overall value of the data. This is a great |
| agencies, credible organizations and media outlets. | | | | place to visit if you are looking to find out the |
| In this article I will tell you how to find such | | | | polling trends of voter support for the various |
| websites. | | | | Canadian political parties. One of the benefits of |
| First off, you want to determine whether you | | | | visiting this site is that it provides links to the polls |
| want to look at provincial Canadian political polls or | | | | it is aggregating and providing its findings on. It is |
| federal ones. Since this article seeks to serve the | | | | always good to know where a polling agency gets |
| international community, I will focus here strictly | | | | its numbers from. This site is updated quite |
| on federal political polls. If you want to look at the | | | | frequently since it is always reacting to the work |
| provinces individually, most of the sites I will list | | | | that other polling organizations do. This website |
| either have information and polls on the provinces | | | | serves as a good "hub" for polling data. |
| or they at least provide links to sites that have | | | | Angus Reid |
| such data. | | | | Angus Reid Global Monitor is one of the |
| I will now list what I consider to be the best | | | | grand-daddies of political polling companies. This |
| resources for information on Canadian political | | | | behemoth of a polling agency has polls from |
| polls. Here we go: | | | | around the world -- over 21,00 polls to be |
| Nanos Research | | | | (relatively) precise! If you are interested in |
| This is such a great site. It conducts polls on not | | | | researching some Canadian political polls and then |
| just which Canadian political party people are | | | | want to follow that up with some polls from |
| supporting, but it also questions Canadians on | | | | around the world, this is the place to do it. With |
| important political issues as well. If you are looking | | | | so many polls done by such a widely respected |
| to get a general idea of what issues Canadians | | | | organization, it is hard not to include Angus Reid in |
| most care about and who they are supporting, I | | | | your collection of political poll websites. |
| suggest that you visit this website before any | | | | There you have it! Now that you have a good |
| others. If anything, you will get a good, broad idea | | | | information and resource base you can grow and |
| of what makes Canadians tick. | | | | expand your polling research website collection. |
| Simon Fraser University: Elections | | | | Thanks for reading! |