Voting intentions aren't strikingly different from the overall results, but there are some contrasts. The Liberals still lead but actually have a larger portion of this demographic than they do the country as a whole. The Conservatives also take a larger share of the vote, but only by 0.1 points. The New Democrats and Greens poll worse among this group than they do the country as a whole, while the Bloc Quebecois polls better.To give the distinctiveness of the Quebec political scene its due, here are the results for that province:
The Bloc polls slightly better among this demographic than they do the whole (about 1.3 points), as do the Liberals by 0.4 points and the Conservatives by 0.1 points. The NDP polls worse, about 1.1 points, as do the Greens, at about 0.7 points below the average.What can we take from this? The oldest age group tends not to support the NDP or Greens, but the youngest group supports those parties in much greater proportions than older voters. So what we have are the mainstream parties - Liberals and Conservatives in Canada and the Liberals and Bloc Quebecois in Quebec - being supported by the "mainstream" of Canadians. This leaves the idealism of the New Democrats and Greens to the young and the pragmatism of the other three parties to the older age groups.
