Home / International / News Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
Canada's Conservatives poised to win another minority gov't
Adjust font size:

Canada's Conservative Party is set to win Tuesday's election, but without getting enough seats to form their long-sought majority government, according to a poll released Monday.

Conservative leader and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a campaign rally at the airport in Fredericton, New Brunswick October 13, 2008. [Xinhua/Reuters Photo]

The Canadian Press/Harris-Decima rolling survey, conducted throughout the five weeks of the election campaign, put support for the Conservatives at 34 percent, followed by Stephane Dion's Liberals at 25 percent.

The NDP stood at 19 percent, the Bloc Quebecois at 11, and the Greens at nine, according to the survey.

The release of the results comes as the party leaders scrambled to make their final appeals to voters across the vast country. Election law prohibits campaigning and the release of polling information on election day.

The Conservatives garnered 36 percent of the votes during the last election, winning 126 seats in the parliament and formed their first minority government after 13 years of Liberal rule.

(Xinhua News Agency October 14, 2008)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
Most Viewed >>
- Russia launches spacecraft with sixth space tourist
- Russia test-fires missiles in large-scale drill
- Paul Krugman wins 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics
- DPRK to resume dismantling nuclear facilities
- Bush: G7 to work together to cope with financial crisis
> Korean Nuclear Talks
> Reconstruction of Iraq
> Middle East Peace Process
> Iran Nuclear Issue
> 6th SCO Summit Meeting
Links
- China Development Gateway
- Foreign Ministry
- Network of East Asian Think-Tanks
- China-EU Association
- China-Africa Business Council
- China Foreign Affairs University
- University of International Relations
- Institute of World Economics & Politics
- Institute of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies
- Institute of West Asian & African Studies
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Institute of Japanese Studies