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Canadians on the federal parties

Stephen Taylor
Canadians on the federal parties

According to the latest Nanos Survey,

Party personality – Conservative Party: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of the following political parties? [Open-ended] [Randomize parties].

Canada (n=925)

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Untrustworthy: 14.4%

Conservative: 12.9%

Bad/Incompetent: 9.9%

Good/Good choice : 9.1%

Trustworthy: 6.4%

Controlling/Authoritarian: 5.8%

Arrogant: 5.5%

Strong/Powerful: 5.3%

Selfish: 4.6%

Intelligent: 4.0%

Progressive: 3.3%

Realistic/Pragmatic: 3.2%

None: 3.2%

Strong leadership: 0.8%

Other: 6.7%

Unsure: 4.9%

Party personality – NDP: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of the following political parties? [Open-ended] [Randomize parties].

Canada (n=923)

Socialist: 13.3%

Caring: 10.2%

Bad/Incompetent: 10.1%

Good : 10.0%

New: 10.0%

Innovative: 8.6%

Trustworthy: 5.8%

Idealistic: 5.6%

Aggressive: 4.2%

Untrustworthy: 3.3%

Intelligent: 2.8%

None: 2.7%

Jack Layton: 1.0%

Other: 6.5%

Unsure: 6.0%

Party personality – Liberal Party: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of the following political parties? [Open-ended] [Randomize parties].

Canada (n=931)

Bad/Incompetent: 18.4%

Untrustworthy: 16.2%

Good: 11.5%

Competent : 6.8%

Progressive: 5.8%

Strong/Powerful: 5.1%

Arrogant: 4.9%

Old-fashioned/Outdated: 4.4%

None: 4.3%

Liberal: 4.3%

Boring: 3.3%

Selfish: 1.7%

Centrist/Middle of the road: 1.0%

Other: 6.6%

Unsure: 5.8%

Party personality – Green Party: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of the following political parties? [Open-ended] [Randomize parties].

Canada (n=941)

Environment/Eco-friendly/Green: 16.7%

Unrealistic/Naive: 14.7%

Not well known: 11.1%

Idealistic : 8.6%

Useless: 7.8%

Caring: 6.0%

None: 5.0%

Good: 4.8%

Hippie/Radical: 4.5%

Innovative: 4.5%

Boring: 3.2%

Other: 6.5%

Unsure: 6.5%

Party personality – Bloc Quebecois: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of the following political parties? [Open-ended] [Randomize parties] [Quebec sample only].

Canada (n=232)

Useless: 15.4%

Narrow-minded/one-sided: 13.0%

Separatist/Independent: 11.7%

Aggressive : 10.7%

None: 6.3%

Untrustworthy: 5.2%

Selfish/Self-centred: 5.0%

Boring: 4.6%

Incompetent: 4.5%

Good: 4.0%

French: 3.4%

Arrogant/Stubborn: 2.9%

Radical: 1.7%

Not well known: 0.4%

Other: 4.0%

Unsure: 7.3%

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