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Should we use "likely voters" for EKOS polls?

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The latest EKOS poll contains two sets of numbers—one representing "all voters" and another representing "likely voters"—a practice commonly seen among U.S. pollsters but almost never among Canadian pollsters, who are notoriously non-transparent about how they weight their results. From what I've read, most (if not all) Canadian pollsters are probably de facto reporting results based on "likely voters", but simply don't say so explicitly. As evidence of this, consider that EKOS' "likely voters" results (NDP 45 Lib 28 Grn 11 Con 13) are much more in line with the results of the other pollsters than their "all voters" numbers. Thoughts? -Undermedia (talk) 15:45, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth party in infobox

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Is it really fair to put the Conservatives in as the fourth party in the infobox considering they didn't get a single seat? Perhaps they got far more votes than the fifth party, but I don't think some sort of standard should be used--either only the parties that got seats stay in the infobox, or they all do. 50.101.166.138 (talk) 17:33, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Current consensus is to also include parties with 5% of the vote. Leading up to the election the Conservatives were consistently getting over 5% in the opinion polls, but got less than 5% of the popular vote on election day. They have been removed. 117Avenue (talk) 04:35, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I actually think that consensus only applies really to articles on American elections. I always thought the consensus regarding legislative elections was only to include parties that actually won seats - the only exception to that being if they had held seats going into the election but lost all of them as the only time putting in a party with zero seats was applicable. But, regardless, obviously the Conservatives here fall under that standard as well. So no inclusion for them in the infobox. Redverton (talk) 18:09, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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