As for why that may be the case, Bittner said there has been a lot of research done on the topic, but there’s no actual conclusive explanation for why women prefer the left. She said some people suspect it might be related to job market changes and how women were excluded for a long time, so now they’re more in favour of policies that promote their involvement.
A national random telephone survey of 1,200 Canadians is conducted by Nanos Research throughout the campaign over a three-day period. The margin of error for a survey of 1,200 respondents is ± 2.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. To update the tracking a new day of interviewing Is added and the oldest day dropped. The daily tracking figures are based on a three-day rolling sample comprising 1,200 interviews.