Things are looking up for the Liberals in Mississauga—Streetsville, a new Mainstreet Research poll shows.

Jill Promoli, the Liberal candidate, holds the lead with 38.8 per cent, ahead of incumbent Tory Nina Tangri, who sits outside of the margin of error at 30.2 per cent. NDP’s candidate Nicholas Rabba polled at 12 per cent.

Tangri won the historically Liberal riding handily in 2018 with 43.53 per cent of the vote. She was the first PC candidate to ever win the riding, defeating incumbent Liberal Bob Delaney who had held the seat from 2007 to 2018. Delaney was tied with the NDP candidate in the last election, paving the way for Tangri’s win.

Promoted to associate minister of red tape reduction in June of 2021, Tangri tabled the Ford government’s pre-election red tape omnibus bill which pushed through the elimination of licence plate sticker fees and helped push back the budget deadline. Since 2003, Tangri had been on the Conservative ticket both provincially and federally, and 2018 was her first successful election.

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Promoli is a local photographer and an advocate for flu prevention after her two-year-old son passed away in 2016. Rabba is a small business owner and former volunteer on the American Democrat Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign. For both candidates, this election is their first time seeking elected office.

CORRECTION: The first version of this poll had the support for the NDP and New Blue Party candidates switched due to a labelling error and the first version of this story reflected that mistake. The poll document and the story have been corrected.

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This Mainstreet Research poll was conducted on May 29. A sample of 360 people was interviewed by automated telephone interviews. The poll is accurate to within ±5.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The poll is weighted for age, sex, and region to be representative of the entire adult population of Canada.

Beyond the margin of error, all polls are subject to other sources of potential error, including coverage error. Riding surveys are particularly susceptible to coverage error; the smaller the population being surveyed, the greater the likelihood of coverage error.

The poll is not intended to predict what will happen in the future; it's a snapshot in time of what voter intentions were at the time of the fielding.

Mainstreet Research is part owner of iPolitics and QP Briefing.

Riding poll: Liberals hoping for a comeback in Mississauga—Streetsville

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