Upon being sworn in as an MPP, NDP Leader Howard Hampton reorganized his shadow cabinet and gave the rookie member a long list of portfolios, including Transportation, Environment, Public Infrastructure Renewal, Greater Toronto Area, Culture, Tourism and Recreation, Citizenship and Immigration, and Multicultural Affairs.

In the NDP Shadow Cabinet, Siksay was critic for Ethics, Access to Information and Privacy, and for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues ; the NDP's was the only shadow cabinet with this latter position.

During his terms in office, Deveaux was the NDP critic ( shadow minister ) for Justice, Acadian Affairs, Education, Finance and the Treasury and Policy Board.

However, less than 72 hours before a planned election call, with the NDP riding high in the polls for its hard line against welfare recipients and aboriginal and environmental radicals, the party's provincial office was raided by Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) officers as part of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of charity bingo money, coined " Bingogate " by the media, by former provincial cabinet minister and member of parliament Dave Stupich.

Kormos, who had already been dropped from cabinet, became Rae's most vocal critic in the NDP caucus.

This was not a coalition government, as the NDP remained an opposition party and was not given seats in the cabinet.

Among these defeated were two cabinet ministers ; David Dingwall, Minister of Public Works from Nova Scotia, and Doug Young, Minister of National Defence from New Brunswick, both lost to NDP candidates in a major blow to the Liberals, as Atlantic voters were upset over cuts to employment insurance and other programs.

This accord was not a formal coalition, as the NDP did not receive any cabinet seats, something that Peterson was not willing to consider during discussions with Rae.

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.

In 2004, the Saskatchewan Party's aggressive questioning of the provincial NDP government over a bad investment of public funds – SPUDCO – forced cabinet minister Eldon Lautermilch to apologize for misleading the legislature, a fact that only became apparent once sworn evidence was acquired from a civil lawsuit against the province.

* Ruth Grier, previous guest, former Ontario NDP cabinet minister

Doern, who had served as a cabinet minister in Schreyer's government, left the NDP in 1984 on the language issue.

In March 1981, former Manitoba NDP cabinet minister Sidney Green started a new provincial organization, also called the Progressive Party.

He voted against the Meech Lake accord and as a result was expelled from the NDP shadown cabinet.

As one of the few NDP MPPs to represent a rural constituency in southern Ontario, North was appointed to Bob Rae's cabinet as Minister of Tourism and Recreation on October 1, 1990.

Christopherson was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating Liberal cabinet minister Lily Oddie Munro in Hamilton Centre as the NDP won a majority government across the province.

The NDP won government under Bob Rae in the general election of 1990, and Kormos was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations and Minister of Financial Institutions on October 1, 1990.

In 1993, this group and former cabinet minister Karen Haslam were the only NDP MPPs to vote against the Rae government's Social Contract legislation.

He defeated former provincial NDP cabinet minister David Christopherson in that year ’ s mayoral election ( 52 % to 39 %)).

However, following the 2011 federal election, during which the NDP achieved a historic breakthrough in Quebec, federal NDP leader and former Quebec cabinet minister Thomas Mulcair announced the party intended to run candidates in time for the 41st Quebec general election, scheduled no later than 2017.

In the 1981 provincial election, Froese ran for provincial parliament as a member of the Progressive Party of Manitoba, founded by former NDP cabinet minister Sidney Green.

She is the daughter of Bill Blaikie, a former NDP Member of Parliament from Winnipeg, Deputy Leader of the party, and provincial cabinet minister.

The NDP were returned to government in the provincial election of 1981, though Doern was not re-appointed to cabinet.

She ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba in 1979, and subsequently served in the cabinet of NDP Premier Howard Pawley.

The Star endorsed the social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) leader Ed Broadbent in 1979 and Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield in 1972.

His campaign was focused on the need to reinvigorate the party, and was prominently endorsed by former NDP leader Ed Broadbent.

Broadbent was the only leader ever to take the NDP to first place in public opinion polling, and some pundits felt that the NDP could supplant Turner's Liberals as the primary opposition to Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives.

In 1988, she was appointed caucus chair, and in 1989, she won the NDP 1989 leadership convention, replacing the retiring Ed Broadbent.

There was considerable speculation that Rae would seek the federal NDP leadership in 1989, after the resignation of Ed Broadbent.

The New Democratic Party ( NDP ) had won a record 43 seats in 1988 under Ed Broadbent, who retired the next year.

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.

* July 7-David Lewis is replaced by Ed Broadbent as leader of the NDP

* December 2: Audrey McLaughlin is elected head of the NDP replacing Ed Broadbent becoming the first female major party leader in Canadian history

* Supporters: Ed Broadbent, Svend Robinson, Libby Davies, former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis

About 600 people attended his memorial, including federal NDP leaders Jack Layton and Ed Broadbent, former provincial premiers Roy Romanow, Lorne Calvert, Peter Lougheed, Ed Schreyer, Bill Davis, and Bob Rae, as well the current Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall.

First elected to the House of Commons in 1952 as a Progressive Conservative, Starr was re-elected six times until he was narrowly defeated in the 1968 election by future New Democratic Party ( NDP ) leader Ed Broadbent.

The riding was left vacant by Prime Minister Paul Martin until the 2004 election when Ed Broadbent, a former leader of the NDP, defeated Liberal Richard Mahoney, a high-profile lawyer and Liberal strategist and long-time ally of former Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Some suggested that the Liberals would follow their British namesake into oblivion, as NDP leader Ed Broadbent consistently out-polled Turner in personal approval ratings.

Martin advisor Richard Mahoney won the nomination and went on to lose to former NDP leader Ed Broadbent.

She moderated a televised leaders debate in 1988 between Brian Mulroney ( PC ), John Turner ( Liberal ) and Ed Broadbent ( NDP ).

He appears to have campaigned for the federal NDP leadership again the following year ( after the resignation of Ed Broadbent ), but dropped from the race before the convention took place.

She considered a leadership run in 1989 when it appeared that Rae would run to succeed Ed Broadbent as federal NDP leader, but abandoned this when Rae announced that he would remain at the provincial level.

The federal New Democratic Party ( NDP ) approached him to run in Ottawa Centre in the 2006 federal election to succeed Ed Broadbent but Munter declined.