MONTREAL - A new poll suggests the major parties fighting for voter support in the Quebec election were in a tight three-way race this week.
With the March 26 voting day less than two weeks away, the Leger Marketing survey said Liberal support in its March 13-15 poll was at 30 per cent, while the Parti Quebecois and the Action democratique du Quebec were each at 27 per cent.
Once the undecided vote was distributed, the poll put the Liberals at 33 per cent, with the PQ and the ADQ each at 30 per cent.
The poll of 1,000 Quebecers, which was conducted for the French-language TVA television network, has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
The margin of error means that PQ and ADQ support could be as high as 33.1 per cent and that the Liberals could be as low as 29.9 per cent.
The polling period includes the two days that immediately followed this week's televised leaders' debate in which there was no consensus as to who emerged the winner among the Liberals' Jean Charest, the PQ's Andre Boisclair and the ADQ's Mario Dumont.
A March 1-8 CROP poll pegged Liberal support at 33 per cent, PQ backing at 29 per cent and had the ADQ at 26 per cent.
