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He resigned as NDP leader in 1971, but retained his seat in the House of Commons.
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Harcourt resigned as premier in February 1996 as the result of " Bingogate ", a scandal in which an NDP member, David Stupich, used money raised by a charity bingo to fund the party.
Schreyer remained leader of the NDP in opposition, but resigned from that post in 1979, when he was approached with the offer of serving as the federal viceroy.
Matters were made worse for the federal NDP after Saskatchewan's NDP Premier Roy Romanow resigned in 2000 after the party lost seats in the 1999 Saskatchewan provincial election, and afterwards suggested that the federal NDP should merge with the Liberal Party.
Thousands of members resigned from the party, and several unions turned against the NDP and vowed to defeat the government in the next election.
However, on February 29, 1996 ; he resigned as NDP leader and MPP for York South and moved to positions in law, academia and the private sector.
He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party ( NDP ) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat.
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Federally, the riding was represented by New Democrats from 1965 until 1988 ; past MPs include Bob Rae ( 1978-1982 ), who resigned to become leader of the provincial NDP, and was later Premier of Ontario in the NDP majority government of 1990-1995.
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.
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Following increasingly bloody internal battles Akerman resigned and the NDP lost all four Cape Breton seats in the following election.
She resigned as Nova Scotia NDP leader in 1994 and went on to be elected leader of the federal NDP in 1995.
In 1961 Douglas resigned as Premier to assume the leadership of the newly formed federal New Democratic Party ( NDP ).
The NDP fell back to third place, behind the Liberal Party, in the 1977 provincial election, and Lewis resigned as leader the following year.
In 1994 Penikett resigned as leader of the Yukon NDP and was succeeded by Piers McDonald.
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In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips — in the Commons — to oppose the measure as well.
Within a month Granby resigned the leadership in the commons, feeling himself inadequate to the post, and the party functioned without an actual leader in the commons for the remainder of the parliamentary session.
He formally resigned as Liberal leader and was succeeded by the Marquess of Hartington, but he soon changed his mind and returned to active politics.
Several Cabinet ministers resigned, and Asquith, the master of domestic politics, proved a poor war leader.
* Corrupt architect John Poulson and links to Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, Labour council leader T. Dan Smith and others ( 1972-4 ): Maudling resigned, Smith sentenced to imprisonment.
The unofficial leader of the team, Thomas Jefferson, had been the appointed Financial Secretary until March 1992, when he resigned over public spending disputes to fight the election.
George Lansbury, a convinced pacifist, resigned as leader at the 1935 Labour Party conference after the party voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.
He again followed his leader and resigned with Peel over the issue of the Corn Laws.
She resigned as leader of the Norwegian Labour Party in 1992.
In October 1941, the UAP was ousted by a no-confidence vote, the ALP leader John Curtin was invited to form a new government, and Menzies resigned as UAP leader.
Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.
A new government was formed by the Democrats of the Left leader and former communist Massimo D ' Alema, but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in regional elections, D ' Alema resigned.
Manley resigned for health reasons in 1992 and was succeeded as leader of the PNP by Percival Patterson.
After the defeat, Major resigned as the leader of the party, and was succeeded by William Hague.
Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).
Foot resigned days after the election and was succeeded as leader on 2 October by Neil Kinnock, who had been tipped from the outset to be Labour's choice of new leader.
Stott Despoja was elected leader on 6 April 2001, replacing Meg Lees, who resigned from the party in July 2002.
Following Labour's fourth consecutive defeat in the 1992 general election, Kinnock resigned as leader and resigned from the House of Commons three years later in order to become a European Commissioner.
Shortly after Labour's hefty election defeat in June 1983, the almost 70-year-old Michael Foot resigned as leader and from the outset it was expected that Kinnock would succeed him.
However Downer's well received tenure was marred by gaffes and controversies by the end of 1994, and he resigned as leader in January 1995.
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In March 1971 Fraser resigned abruptly in protest at what he said was Gorton's interference in his ministerial responsibilities.
In March 1971 the Defence Minister, Malcolm Fraser, resigned from Cabinet and denounced Gorton, who then announced a leadership spill.
Conn Smythe served as the Hall's chairman for several years, but resigned in June 1971 when Harvey " Busher " Jackson was posthumously elected into the Hall.
In May 1973, Judy-Lynn Benjamin ( Judy-Lynn del Rey since her 1971 marriage to Lester del Rey ) resigned.
He resigned after the military memorandum of March 12, 1971.
In 1971, editor Willie Morris resigned under pressure from owner John Cowles, Jr., prompting resignations from many of the magazine ’ s star contributors and staffers, including Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Robert Kotlowitz, Marshall Frady and Larry L. King:
This backfired when the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland James Chichester-Clark resigned over a split in March 1971.
He resigned due to health reason in 1971 as Peking's campaign to oust the ROC from the United Nations was on the verge of succeeding.
He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ) from 1971 to 1983, then became Prime Minister when his father, Sir Vere Bird, the previous Prime Minister, resigned.
Cardin resigned from the Chambre Syndicale in 1966 and began showing his collections in his own venue, the " Espace Cardin " ( opened 1971 ) in Paris, formerly the " Théâtre des Ambassadeurs ", near the Embassy of the United States in Paris.
Reynolds served as president until 1971, when he resigned to spend more time with his family and due to competing business interests.
Chichester-Clark himself resigned in 1971 ; the political and security situation and the more intensive British interest proved too much for this mild-mannered man.
Facing an untenable situation, Bassett resigned as chairman and sold his shares to Ballard and Stafford Smythe in September 1971.
* Darren Scully ( born 1971 / 1972 ), Mayor of Naas until he resigned over comments about the " aggressive attitude " of " black Africans "
He served as the Hall's chairman for several years, but resigned in June 1971 when Busher Jackson was posthumously elected into the Hall.
Haitham was replaced with Ali Nasir Mohammed after he resigned from his post and left the country in August 1971.
He resigned in 1971 and returned to writing, at the Brookings Institution, and teaching at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
He resigned in 1971 before his term was complete in order to run for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party.
González's influence in a now more left-leaning Radical Party was decreasing, and in 1971 he resigned from the party, angered by its support for socialist Salvador Allende.
It was founded as the Socialist Party of Australia ( SPA ) in 1971, when a group of members of the Communist Party of Australia ( CPA ) resigned or were expelled from that party as a result of their opposition to its policies.
Hardy resigned from the legislature in February 1971, and Walding was nominated as the NDP candidate for the by-election to succeed him.
He was re-elected in the 1971 election and represented the Toronto area riding of York Centre until he resigned from the legislature in March 1974.
Viewed as a liberal he was given the job of Minister of Community Relations by Brian Faulkner in 1971 and resigned from the Orange Order.
In April, 1971, Lockton resigned as CEO from Ontario ( as well as from Sports Headliners ) to pursue non-automobile racing related interests and was replaced as CEO by Ray Smartis, the Vice President and General Manager.
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