With election season underway the first polls are coming in by individual riding.

Company ThreeHundredEight (ThreeHundredEight.com) has listed aggregate polling data from multiple sources on their website.

The current polling for the Central Okanagan-Samilkameen-Nicola show incumbent Conservative MP Dan Albas leading polls with 37.9 per cent with New Democrat challenger Angelique Wood just behind at 34.5 per cent and Liberal party candidate Karley Scott at 18.8 per cent.

The past 2011 election saw Dan Albas win with a strong 54 per cent of the vote. These polling numbers are showing he may have some serious challenges in this election as the NDP have been riding a wave of support across the country.

In other ridings poll numbers are even more interesting. In Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, incumbent MP Cathy McLeod has 35 per cent, heavily trailing New Democrat contender and former judge Bill Sundhu, who has taken the lead with 48.3 per cent.

Taken as a whole across the country, if there were an election tomorrow, these numbers project a Conservative lead of 129 seats, 41 seats shy of a majority.

As fears of recession rise, the polls have reflected growing economic concerns of Canadians. While Canada has, since the financial crisis of 2008, been the leading G7 country economically, the recent drop in oil prices has left many Canadians questioning the stability of the economy.

Pundits speculate that these concerns that could turn the longest election in modern Canadian history into one of the tightest and most contested.

By Christopher Tomlinson, special to the Herald