Forum Research is a Canadian market research and polling firm founded in 1993 by Dr. Lorne Bozinoff. Forum Research Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and has offices throughout Canada (Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver) and around the world (Houston, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Mumbai and Shanghai).
Political polling
Forum conducts regular polls on municipal, provincial and federal politics for major Canadian news outlets, including the
Toronto Star,
National Post and Sun newspaper chain. The firm conducted extensive polls during the
2010 Toronto mayoral election
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and the
2011 Canadian federal election
The 2011 Canadian federal election was held on May 2, 2011, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 41st Canadian Parliament.
The writs of election for the 2011 election were issued by Governor General David Johnston on March ...
, in which it was the first to predict through polling the defeat of the
Liberal Party
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in Toronto and Montreal to the
New Democratic Party. Forum accurately stated the
NDP surge in the 2011 Canadian federal elections, which was later validated by the official election results.
Forum also conducts surveys on other social issues, including recent surveys on
gun control, 'gay-centric' schools
and abortion.
Business specialization
Forum Research specializes in political polling and customer satisfaction research. Some of the firm's research tools include small and large-scale telephone, interactive telephone, and online polling, focus groups, one-on-one interviews, mail, door-to-door, intercept and personal surveys.
Affiliates
*Access Research
*Service Metrics
*RDDNet
References
External links
Forum Research
Market research companies of Canada
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