Premier Blaine Higgs in Saint John, NB on April 5th 2019. (Photo credit: Tamara Steele)
A new poll from Narrative Research indicates the honeymoon may be over for the Higgs Conservative government in New Brunswick.
Three in ten voters in the province are now undecided.
The PC party leads other parties with 36 per cent support which is down from 42 per cent in May.
Kevin Vickers and the Liberals have 29 per cent of voter support, compared to 25 per cent support in May.
Green party support is unchanged at 18 per cent, the People’s Alliance has 8 per cent support, up from 6 per cent in May.
The NDP party of New Brunswick has 6 per cent support, down from 8 per cent.
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Respondents were asked how satisfied they are with the overall performance of the Higgs conservatives.
46 percent of those surveyed said they are mostly satisfied with the performance of the government, 23 percent are mostly dissatisfied while, 13 percent are completely dissatisfied.
4 percent are completely satisfied and 14 percent either don’t know, have no answer or are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.
It finds Blaine Higgs is the most popular choice for New Brunswick Premier with 29 percent support.
The second choice is David Coon of the Green party at 21 percent.
16 percent want Kevin Vickers to be Premier, that support is down from 19 percent when he became Liberal party leader.
Kris Austin is the choice for 9 percent while interim NDP leader Mackenzie Thomason has 2 percent support.
18 percent of those surveyed don’t know which party leader they prefer and 4 percent wouldn’t choose any of them.
The poll results come from a telephone survey of 800 adults conducted between August 2nd to August 23rd, 2019.
Overall results are accurate to within plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, 95 times out of 100.
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