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OTTAWA — The New Democratic Party has become the leading choice among Canadian voters — especially those in Ontario and Quebec — as the most favoured party to govern the country, a major new poll has found.

The survey commissioned by Postmedia News also reveals Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Tories are slipping in popularity and the Liberals are continuing to wane. Ultimately, the poll conducted this week by Ipsos-Reid reveals a historic shift in political allegiances, as a growing consensus forms around the NDP among those who would like to see the Tories removed from office.

According to the poll, which asked Canadians who they would vote for if an election occurred today, the NDP under Thomas Mulcair would receive 38 per cent of the popular vote, up three points since last month. (That’s also well up from the 2011 election, when the NDP finished second with 31 per cent of the vote.) The Tories would receive 35 per cent of the vote, down two points since last month (and down from the 40 per cent they attained to win a majority government last year.) Support for the Liberal party, now heading into an unpredictable leadership race that won’t include its current leader Bob Rae, is also shaky. The party would get 18 per cent of the vote, down one point from the 2011 election.

The Green party would receive about four per cent of the vote. And the Bloc Québécois, once powerful in its province, is now running second to the NDP there.