Vote Compass: Brad Wall most trustworthy, except among undecided

Although people appear to find Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall the most-trustworthy leader, a Vote Compass report holds outa thin reed of hope for the NDP.

And that's undecided voters, accordingto the latest report from Vote Compass, which is CBC News' civic engagement tool.

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The report says thatSaskatchewan people rated the Sask. Party leader 6.1 out of 10 on trustworthiness, compared to4.1 for theNDP'sCamBroten, 3.2 for the Green Party's Victor Lauand 2.8 for Liberal Party leaderDarrinLamoureaux.

"Brad Wall leads the pack in evaluations of both competence and trustworthiness and also commands more support from Saskatchewan Party voters than do any of the other leaders from their respective bases," said GregKerr, research manager for Vox Pop Labs, which created Vote Compass for CBC News.

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"This is noteworthy, as incumbents typically lead in evaluations of competence, but fall behind in perceptions of trustworthiness."

Sask. Party supporters give Wall sky-high marks

The findings are based on 8,880respondents who participated in VoteCompass from March 7 to March 21. The data doesn't include peoplewho contributed afterWednesday night's debate between Wall and Broten.

Saskatchewan Party supporters are far more skeptical of the other party leaders than are Liberal, Green and NDP voters.Greg Kerr,. Vox Pop Labs

People who consider themselves Sask. Party supporters rated Wall 8.8, considerably higher the numbers given by supporters of other parties to their leaders.

Hope for the NDP?

If there's a silver lining for the NDP, it might be that undecided voters rateBrotenslightly higher on trustworthinessthan Wall: 5.3 versus 5.

Meanwhile, on another measure of leaders competence the news is mostly bad forBroten. Even undecided voters believe Wall is more competent.

The overall result mirrors the result for trustworthiness. People believe Wall is most competent (6.6), followed byBroten(4.2), Lau (3.0) and Lamoureaux (2.8).

Again, the rock-solid support of Sask. Party supporters for Walland their apparent distaste for his rivalsbuoys Wall's results.

"Saskatchewan Party supporters are far more skeptical of the other party leaders than are Liberal, Green and NDP voters, who are, on average, more generous in their evaluationsacrossthe board,"Kerrsaid.

About Vote Compass

Developed by a team of social and statistical scientists from Vox Pop Labs, VoteCompass is a civic engagement application offered in Canada exclusively by CBCNews. The findings are based on 8,880respondents who participated in VoteCompass from March 7 to March 21, 2016. Unlike online opinion polls, respondentsto Vote Compass are not pre-selected.

Similar to opinion polls, however,the data are a non-random sample from the population and have been weightedin order to approximate a representative sample. Vote Compass data havebeen weighted by geography, gender, age, educational attainment, occupation,and religion to ensure the sample's composition reflects that of the actualpopulation of Saskatchewan according to census data and other populationestimates.