Winnipeg – Exactly 12 months out from Manitoba’s first-ever fixed-date provincial election, the race between the province’s two major political parties continues to be tight, a new poll conducted exclusively for the Winnipeg Free Press by Probe Research Inc. reveals.

For the second straight quarter, the governing New Democratic Party and the opposition Progressive Conservatives remain statistically tied, with the PCs now sitting at 42 percent (up slightly from 40% in June) while the NDP now have the support of 40 percent of Manitoba’s decided voters (down slightly from 41% in June). As the graph on the following page illustrates, the PCs are ahead of the NDP for the first time since December 2008 – however, their lead is within the poll’s margin of error of +/- 3.1 percent.

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