'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.

No, the pollsters were not wrong. On the contrary, they saw everything coming from the election results last Monday. Our collaborator dissects their performances.

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…