Welcome to What Number Surprised You, a show about polling and opinion research hosted by Brenden Sommerhalder, head of MQO Research in Nova Scotia.

Coming off a heavily-polled provincial election here in Nova Scotia, we figured to not let perfect be enemy of action, so we’re pulling the trigger and putting this first "beta" episode out in the world for you today.

A little bit of context, our firm, MQO, released two polls for yesterday’s election during the writ period, and we were one of seven polling firms to release a poll within a week from election day.

This episode is a bit of an audio journal that I recorded in real-time yesterday, giving my thoughts on the polls and the election results as they came in last night. You’ll hear me give some thoughts before results began to be reported, during, and after. Stick to the end to hear how our poll fared.

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MQO's poll: https://www.mqoresearch.com/pcs-heading-for-hefty-majority-in-novascotia-2024-11-21/

Election Results (CBC): https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/nova-scotia/2024/results/

All Polls (Canadian Polling): https://canadianpolling.ca/NS-2021