Poll indicates steep drop in Sask. Party support after unpopular budget
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he knew budget decisions were likely to hurt his party’s popularity with voters and a new poll suggests just that.
Numbers from Mainstreet Research indicate that Wall’s Saskatchewan Party dropped steeply in voter support while the New Democratic Party took a nine-point lead.
Wall, who has often ranked at or near the top in national surveys of the country’s leaders, wrote on Facebook on Thursday that the poll “though not entirely consistent with our own research, certainly points to such a decline for our party.”
The poll, done for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post, found that 49 per cent of decided and leaning voters preferred the New Democratic Party compared with 40 per cent for Wall’s governing Saskatchewan Party.