Liberal and NDP voters prefer Charest over Poilievre for CPC leader

A new Leger poll finds that Liberal and New Democrat voters prefer Jean Charest or Patrick Brown over frontrunner Pierre Poilievre for leader of the Conservative Party.

The findings are based on data made up from 1,528 Canadians in an online survey, using "computer-assisted web interviewing technology," reports CTV. The study cannot be assigned a margin of error because it is an internet-based poll.

The Leger survey asked respondents to rank the six candidates in the running based on how they believe they would do as leader.

Leger executive Vice President Christian Bourque said that one-third of those asked seemed indifferent to the contest.

With Conservative voters, nearly a quarter of respondents said they did not know and eight percent said none of the above.

Conservative voters who responded to the survey found that 44 percent wanted Poilievre for leader. Charest, the former premier of Quebec, came in a distant second at 14 percent among CPC voters.

Leger data found that 25 percent of both federal Liberal and NDP voters said that Charest would make the best leader for the Conservatives.

Just six per cent of Liberal and NDP supporters feel Poilievre would be the best pick, according to the data.

On the findings, Bourque said that the only way for the Tories to win is to attract voters from other parties.

"The only way they can win back Ontario and do better in Quebec is to actually move voters away from the Liberal party and away from the NDP," Bourque said.