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Even with the Trudeau government already poised for a crushing defeat at the next federal election, each passing day is continuing to yield thousands of Canadians abandoning their plans to vote Liberal.

At least, that’s the takeaway from a new Abacus Data poll showing the Liberals with their lowest-ever share of the popular vote since forming government in 2015.

According to the new survey, if an election were held tomorrow the Liberals would capture a mere 22 per cent of ballots cast.

When these kinds of numbers are projected across the 343 ridings that will be contested in the next election, the result is a House of Commons in which the Liberal caucus could very well plummet to fourth place.

A widely circulated projection of the Abacus poll by the election modeller Raymoud Liu shows the Liberals capturing just 37 seats. It would be a defeat on par with the 34 seats that Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff captured in the 2011 election; the all-time worst showing for the federal Liberals in Canadian showing.