About EKOS Politics

We launched this website in order to showcase our election research, and our suite of polling technologies including Probit and IVR. We will be updating this site frequently with new polls, analysis and insight into Canadian politics. EKOS's experience, knowledge and sophisticated research designs have contributed positively to many previous elections.

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In addition to current political analysis, EKOS also makes available to the public general research of interest, including research in evaluation, general public domain research, as well as a full history of EKOS press releases.

Media Inquires

For media inquires, please contact: Frank Graves President EKOS Research Associates t: 613.235-7215 [email protected]

At the Crossroads of Hope and Fear

[Ottawa – January 23, 2018] In this unique ‘populism project’ we are conducting with Canadian Press we are trying to gain a better understanding about what many are calling the rise of populism. That term is inadequate to deal with the range of experience and attitudes which are underpinning this movement. A partial list of the closely related concepts relevant to this includes authoritarianism, an ordered versus open outlook, nativism, isolationism, and xenophobia. Questions swirl as to what these forces mean, what is driving them, and how they are distributed in Canada. [More...]

EKOS ACCURATELY PREDICTS ROB FORD’S VICTORY – October 26, 2010

[Toronto – October 26, 2010] As other polls and pundits were calling the race for Toronto’s new mayor “too close to call,” EKOS correctly predicted a strong win for Rob Ford. Over the last week of the race, EKOS’ nightly polling showed Ford with a widening lead over his nearest rival. Our final three day roll up was nearly identical to the final election result.

So why this clearly flawed sense of a tightly deadlocked race? The other polls were off for different reasons. First, Ford surged in the last few days of his campaign and this late trend… [More...]

ADDENDUM TO OCT 22ND POLL: FORD POISED TO WIN – October 24, 2010

[Ottawa – October 24, 2010] – Further to our release on October 22nd, we extended our polling for three days to see if the race had changed in the final stages. While the final three days of polling provides too small a sample (n=275) to treat this as a reliable stand alone poll, it is more than adequate to test the hypothesis that Rob Ford continues to possess a significant lead.

Recall that in our last release, Mr. Ford had an eight point lead. Some speculated that because polling was conducted over an eight-day period (we do not poll… [More...]

ADVANTAGE TO FORD IN STILL TIGHT TORONTO MAYORALTY RACE – October 22, 2010

[Ottawa – October 22, 2010] – Based on a randomly dialled sample of 500 Torontonian voters, Rob Ford enjoys a significant eight point advantage over George Smitherman (43.9 to 35.6) in the closing stretch of what has been a fascinating mayoralty campaign in Toronto. While not decisive enough to declare Mr. Ford a certain winner, he is considerably more likely to emerge successfully over Mr. Smitherman on Monday.

This claim is not only based on the quite significant (but not insurmountable) lead he now enjoys, but also from analysing the underlying anatomy of voter support. While George Smitherman enjoys… [More...]

SNAPSHOT OF METROPOLITAN CANADA – OCTOBER 13, 2008

CONSERVATIVES STILL STRUGGLE IN CITIES

[OTTAWA – October 13, 2008] – The Conservatives may well win the election tomorrow, but they are likely to win again without much support in the most economically and socially dynamic places in Canada: the big cities.

SNAPSHOT OF METROPOLITAN CANADA

Liberals/NDP remain in the hunt in big cities

[OTTAWA – September 23, 2008] – Despite the substantial, and increasingly solid, Conservative lead over the other parties nationally, it is a very different story when it comes to Canada’s biggest cities: Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. The Tories are not in the horserace in Montreal, lag badly in Toronto, and are in a dogfight with the NDP in Vancouver.

LIBERALS STOP THEIR ROT IN CANADA’S BIGGEST CITIES

EKOS ELECTION.COM – September 2008

Greens Hitting It Big with Gen-X and Gen-Y

HIGHLIGHTS

The Conservatives still have a large lead over the Liberals nationally, but there is a different story emerging in Canada’s largest centres.

The Conservatives still lead in the B.C. lower mainland, but the Liberals remain strong in Toronto and Montreal – their traditional bedrock.

The generational story is even more interesting, with Greens