The Tories’ lead over the Liberals in Whitby-Oshawa has narrowed slightly, with the NDP registering well below their level of support and a large number of voters are still undecided, a new poll suggests.

The Mainstreet Research poll found that if the vote were held today, 33 per cent of respondents said they would vote for the Progressive Conservatives, 27 per cent would vote for the Liberals and 28 per cent are still undecided.

Nine per cent said they would vote NDP and two per cent indicated they would vote for the Greens.

In Mainstreet's last poll, the Tories led the Liberals by eight per cent.

Among the undecided respondents, 75 per cent said they are leaning in no particular direction, while 13 per cent said they are leaning towards the Liberals, six per cent said they are leaning towards the PCs, and three per cent apiece said they are leaning towards the NDP or the Greens.

Mainstreet Research President Quito Maggi said that the number of undecided voters has actually risen slightly over the course of the campaign.

“Typically at this point we would see the undecided number trend downwards, instead it’s increased slightly within the margin of error,” Maggi said. “This will make Whitby-Oshawa hard to predict. 75% of undecided voters are not leaning one way or another, if they show up to the polls right now we have no indication of how they will break.”

Including undecided voters who are leaning in a particular direction, the poll says the Tories still maintain a six per cent lead over the Liberals, 44 per cent to 38 per cent.

The Progressive Conservatives nominated regional councilor Lorne Coe, the Liberals have nominated another regional councillor, Elizabeth Roy, while the NDP have nominated labour and human rights lawyer Niki Lundquist and the Greens have nominated college instructor and women’s advocate Stacey Leadbetter.

The riding was held for eight years by Christine Elliott, who served as deputy leader of the Progressive Conservatives for much of her tenure and challenged for the leadership of the party twice.

Voters head to the polls on Feb. 11.

The poll reached 576 Whitby-Oshawa adults on Feb. 1, using interactive voice response automated calling.

It has a margin of error of +/- four per cent, 19 times out of 20.