Poll of Sask. voters has Conservatives maintaining strong support, but Liberals gaining ground [Video]

A new poll of Saskatchewan voters shows growing support for federal Liberals in Saskatoon and Regina — enough to make some races competitive — but Conservative support remains high across the province.

“That the Liberals are really neck and neck with the Conservatives in the two big cities is a bit of a surprise,” said Éric Grenier, who runs CBC’s election poll tracker and writes about elections at TheWrit.ca.

“If it holds until election day, if we see numbers similar to this, it’s very possible the map of southern Saskatchewan won’t be painted entirely blue.”

The poll, exclusive to CBC News, was commissioned by the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) and conducted by Rubicon Strategy via an online survey of 747 Saskatchewan residents from April 5 to April 10. The data was weighted to reflect the age and gender distribution of the province. The margin of error for a random …