For the last 10 days of 2015, the Angus Reid Institute is counting down our top 10 stories of the year, based on the total number of page views they received at angusreid.org.
This is the number 1 story of the year.
It was the longest election campaign in modern Canadian history. Each of the three major political parties held the polling lead at one point or another in the campaign. And in the end, the Liberal Party of Canada resurrected itself – gaining 48 seats to go from third-party status to majority government, at the expense of both Stephen Harper’s governing Conservatives and Thomas Mulcair’s Official Opposition NDP.
The 2015 federal election was easily the most significant news story of the year, and the Angus Reid Institute’s coverage of it was the most-viewed content on angusreid.org.
ARI conducted issue-based polls on refugees, the Mike Duffy trial, the economy, health care, and foreign policy, as well as polls on the party standings as the race evolved.
The Institute also produced analysis on our blog and reviewed the work of other pollsters, tracking federal election polling in our “Poll Watch” section.
To see all of our coverage of the 2015 federal election, visit our election landing page: