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A new province-wide poll authorized by Vote to Stay showed a strong majority of Albertans in every area of the province support staying in Canada.
The Edmonton Journal reports that the online survey of 2,000 eligible Alberta voters is tied for the largest publicly released poll on Alberta’s constitutional future, and is the only publicly released poll to provide detailed regional results for Edmonton, Calgary, as well as northern, southern and central Alberta.
“The results are encouraging. The fact that it has regional breakdowns that clearly identify that Albertans want to stay in Canada – winning convincingly, including the rural areas, that’s heartening and really happy about the way those numbers are shaping up,” said Vote to Stay founder Monte Solberg, in an interview with Postmedia on Monday.
Results of the online poll, broken down by region, show that in Edmonton, 80 per cent want to stay, while 17 per cent are for leaving. In Calgary, 78 per cent want to stay, while 18 per cent would leave. In the central Alberta region, 66 per cent want to stay, while 29 per cent want to leave. In the northern region of the province, 66 per cent want to stay, while 26 per cent want to leave.
The poll was conducted from June 4-12 using Leger, Lucid and Innovative’s Canada 20/20 research panels. Results were weighted to reflect Alberta’s population by age, education, gender, race, region and past voting history.
