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Update on Guelph

It's late Wednesday May 6th and a fuller survey regarding Guelph showed up in my twitter. There is no indication what the source is, but it looks like it might be from the survey released earlier in the election reported in the Tribune Mercury on May25th.

It has the Greens in the lead with 31%, but the NDP is close behind with 29%. PC's sit at 25% and Liberals at 14%. The more recent poll, reported on Monday has the Green up at 32.7% so it would be really great to know where that gain has come from. However, the upshot is that this is a close race between the Greens and the NDP. It really is going to come down to where Liberal voters go or if they decide to sit it out at home.

A bit of a nail-biter here.

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