'One of the best elections for the polls in a long time': How pollsters predicted federal election outcome

'One of the best elections for the polls in a long time': How pollsters predicted federal election outcome

In the end, the result was — more or less — what the polls projected in the weeks and days leading up to the election.

Canadian elections results: Did the pollsters get it right?

B.C.'s urban-rural divide, the anti-Poilievre vote and is there a path back from obscurity for the NDP? Pollster Steve Mossop, an executive vice-president at Leger, analyzes the federal election results in B.C. with Harold Munro, editor-in-chief of The Vancouver Sun and Province. Watch:

How the polls did in the 2025 election

“You can’t trust the polls, they always get it wrong.”I’m sure you’ve heard this before. It’s something I hear in every election campaign. Forget that the polls have done a good job in the vast majority of elections in this country — it’s the few exceptions (and those south of the border) that get all the attention.But that’s what makes it all the more important that we highlight when the polls do a good job. And, in the 2025 federal election in…