Robinson was the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) for ridings in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia, the third-largest city in British Columbia.

In the House of Commons of Canada, The Pas is part of the Churchill riding, held by NDP MP Niki Ashton.

Early in the campaign, NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis had asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) to launch a criminal investigation into the leaking of the income trust announcement.

* John Gilbert ( Canadian politician ) ( 1921 – 2006 ), NDP MP from Ontario

The October 1970 Quebec FLQ Crisis put Douglas and David Lewis – now a Member of Parliament – on the " hotseat ", with Lewis being the only NDP MP with any roots in Quebec.

Welland is represented in the House of Commons of Canada by the NDP MP Malcolm Allen, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by the NDP MPP Cindy Forster, representing the federal and the provincial ridings of Welland.

Rae won the NDP nomination over former MP John Paul Harney and activist Kay Macpherson.

During her time as leader of the federal NDP, McDonough was romantically involved with David MacDonald, a former Progressive Conservative ( PC ) MP for Toronto Centre — Rosedale and a cabinet minister.

Other prominent guests were NDP leader Jack Layton ; Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper ( now Prime Minister ); Green Party leader Elizabeth May ; then-Conservative MP Belinda Stronach ; Conservative MP Peter MacKay ; Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams ; Olympic gold medallist Kyle Shewfelt ; author Pierre Berton ; recording artists Jann Arden, Bif Naked, Rush bassist Geddy Lee and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, and Sarah McLachlan ; publishing mogul Conrad Black ; and former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Federally, the riding elected the NDP again in 2011 after a few years of voting Liberal and is represented by MP Matthew Kellway.

Leslieville is in the federal political riding of Toronto-Danforth, represented by NDP MP Craig Scott.

Scott replaced former MP and NDP leader Jack Layton in a by-election following Layton's death from cancer.

He initially wanted to run for the federal New Democratic Party in the 1993 federal election, in the northern riding of Churchill, but was rebuffed by the party leadership ( the riding was already represented by NDP MP Rod Murphy, who did not want to resign ).

Axworthy ran for the party in Winnipeg North Centre in the 1968 election, and finished a surprisingly strong second against veteran NDP Member of Parliament ( MP ) Stanley Knowles.

At the time of the election, Bill Blaikie was the MP for Winnipeg-Transcona, the NDP House leader and the critic on intergovernmental affairs, justice, the Solicitor General, and parliamentary reform.

Lorne Nystrom was the MP for Regina — Qu ' Appelle at the time of the election, and the NDP critic of economic policy, finance, banks, national revenue, public accounts, Crown corporations and electoral reform.

He was briefly a member of the CCF's follow-on organization, the New Democratic Party ( NDP ), before crossing the floor in the House of Commons to become a Liberal MP in 1962 until his defeat in 1963.

In the 1999 provincial election, Romanow's NDP received slightly less popular support as a share of the vote than the conservative opposition Saskatchewan Party led by Elwin Hermanson, a former Reform MP.

During the 2003 NDP leadership convention, Stoffer was the campaign co-chair to Lorne Nystrom, a former long serving NDP MP from Saskatchewan.

Shortly before the 2004 election, Gallant made headlines for her criticism of Bill C-250, an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada introduced by NDP MP Svend Robinson which would protect sexual orientation from hate propaganda.

However, Mazigh's candidacy was unusual in that Mazigh personally does not support same-sex marriage ; had she been elected she would have been the only NDP MP, alongside Desmond McGrath, NDP candidate in the riding of Random-Burin-St. George's in Newfoundland and Labrador, to oppose same-sex marriage by abstaining from a vote.

The NDP was defeated in the provincial election of 1995, and Hampton was re-elected over Progressive Conservative Lynn Beyak by only 205 votes.

The Yukon NDP first formed the government of the territory under the leadership of Tony Penikett from 1985 to 1992, and under the leadership of Piers McDonald from 1996 to 2000.

In 1994 Penikett resigned as leader of the Yukon NDP and was succeeded by Piers McDonald.

McDonald succeeded Penikett as NDP leader and leader of the opposition in 1995 and led the NDP back to power in the 1996 election winning 11 of the territory's 17 seats but in 2000 his government was defeated and McDonald narrowly lost his seat in the legislature.

The NDP were victorious in the 1999 provincial election, and Cerilli personally defeated Progressive Conservative Henry McDonald by 5198 votes to 3114.

This allowed the NDP, under the leadership of former Vancouver mayor Michael Harcourt, who had succeeded former leader Bob Skelly in 1987, to win with 41 % of the popular vote ( one percentage point lower than the share the party had lost with in 1986 ).

In the end, the NDP succeeded in increasing their parliamentary representation to 29 MPs, though they had significantly fewer seats than the Bloc Québécois ( 51 ) or the Opposition Liberals ( 103 ).

He stepped down after 15 years as federal leader of the NDP in 1989 at the Winnipeg Convention, where he was succeeded by Audrey McLaughlin.

Though still reviled by the left, Bennett remains generally highly respected among conservatives in BC, who view his rule as a " golden era " before the corruption of the Vander Zalm government and the NDP that succeeded him.

In 1970, Blakeney succeeded Lloyd as leader of the Saskatchewan NDP, which was then in opposition.

Widely expected to lead the party to victory in 2003, he stepped down days after the party lost the provincial election that November to the NDP and was subsequently succeeded by Brad Wall.

Martel stood down as a Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in 1987, and was succeeded in Sudbury East by his daughter Shelley Martel after a bitter battle for the riding's NDP nomination between her and Rev.

Schellenberg was succeeded by current NDP MLA Erna Braun, who won the seat in 2007 provincial election with 60 % of the vote.

The Beaches — Woodbine riding, now renamed as Beaches — East York, has remained in NDP hands since that time with Bryden being succeeded by Frances Lankin and Michael Prue.

On 27 October 2000, Eustace succeeded James Fitz-Allen Mitchell as the leader of the NDP.

The proposed structure would be a coalition between the Liberals and the NDP, with the New Democrats getting six Cabinet positions.

He played a key role in getting the NDP Caucus to support the Clarity Act in 2000, after securing amendments that were important to First Nations groups in Quebec.

In the following year's snap election, he led the party to eight seats, twice as many as it had held at dissolution of the legislature, while also getting the second-highest popular vote, though the NDP retained official opposition status with sixteen seats.

Despite being rated highly for her debate performance by media commentators, Carr's performance was poorly rated by the public and her own vote share declined to 25 % in her home constituency of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, 17 % behind the victorious NDP candidate.

Layton initially said that he was following the rules of the broadcast consortium, while NDP spokesman Brad Lavigne confirmed that Layton had refused to attend if May was present, noting that May had endorsed Liberal leader Stéphane Dion for prime minister, and arguing that her inclusion would in effect give the Liberals two representatives at the debate.

NDP leader Alexa McDonough performed badly in the French-language debate due to her not being fluent in French.

Like her father, Martel represented the left-wing of the NDP and often had a fractious relationship with Rae.

NDP leader Ed Broadbent had a firm position that abortion is a medical matter, not a criminal one, and should be left to a woman and her doctor.

MPP Marilyn Churley threatened to legally change her surname to " Churley-NDP " so that the Speaker would be forced to say NDP when recognizing her in the House, as a non-official party loses the right to have its members addressed in the Legislature as members of the party.

After Churley resigned to run in the 2006 federal election, bringing the party to only seven members again, the government decided to allow the NDP to retain official status pending the results of the by-election to replace her, which the NDP won.

However, she fell to Quebec's " orange wave " in the Canadian federal election, 2011, losing her seat to Isabelle Morin of the NDP.

The Liberals were upset by the New Democratic Party in the provincial election of 1990, although McLeod was able to retain her riding against a strong challenge from NDP candidate Dan Hutsul, winning by 1, 345 votes.

In the process, one female worker fell to her death and 52 people including 10 workers, 30 NDP members, and 12 journalists were injured, some requiring hospitalization.

Mazigh had reportedly grown personally close with NDP foreign affairs critic, and former federal leader, Alexa McDonough, and she perceived the NDP as having been more emphatic than the other parties in calling for her husband's release.

During a leaders ' debate, NDP leader Jack Layton said that the party was proud to have her as a candidate.

Despite finishing third, her 8, 080 votes were the highest the NDP has ever won in Ottawa South federally or provincially until Henri Sader won 8, 138 votes in 2006.

She lost her seat to NDP challenger Jim Fulton in the 1979 election.

At the time of her election the party was suffering low morale in the wake of the 2001 provincial election, which had reduced the NDP to only two seats in the Legislative Assembly.

Each was inclined to criticize the other publicly, McDonough depicting MacEwan as an unrepentant enemy of all the NDP stood for, while MacEwan described McDonough and her father, industrialist Lloyd Shaw, as seeking to use their wealth to try to prevent democracy in Nova Scotia politics.

Fortier was subject to questioning in the Senate, but the Bloc Québécois and New Democratic Party were not represented in that body ( One senator, Lillian Dyck, was appointed as an NDP Senator, but the NDP opposes the existence of the Senate and does not recognize her as part of its caucus .).