During the 2003 provincial election, Hampton argued that Rae was wrong to reverse the NDP's commitment to public auto insurance.

In response to the results of the 2003 election, the entire Saskatchewan Party caucus voted in favour of the NDP's Crown Corporations Public Ownership Act, which provided legislative entrenchment for the ownership of the major crown utilities and services.

When the federal Liberal government changed the election finances law, soon after Jack Layton won the NDP's leadership in the modified OMOV election on January 23, 2003, the party implemented full OMOV for its next leadership convention.

At the NDP's 22nd Convention, held on September 10, 2006, in Quebec City, Layton received a 92 % approval rating in a leadership vote, tying former Reform Party leader Preston Manning's record for this kind of voting.

In a leadership review vote held at the NDP's August 2009 federal policy convention, 89. 25 % of delegates voted against holding a leadership convention to replace Layton.

In it, he expressed his wishes regarding the NDP's leadership in the event of his death, and addressed various segments of the Canadian population, concluding, " My friends, love is better than anger.

Stephen Lewis took over the party's leadership in 1970, and the NDP's popularity continued to grow.

The question of leadership was important to the NDP's victory.

He campaigned to become national leader at the NDP's 1971 leadership convention, coming in third behind winner David Lewis and runner-up James Laxer.

During her campaign to win the party leadership, James pledged to modernize the NDP's ideology and internal structures and build a broader base of support for the party, a move which alienated some traditional supporters.

Many members of the NDP's youth wing endorsed Green's campaign for the leadership.

Like Cliff Matthews, Fries was an " outsider candidate " in the provincial NDP's 1961 leadership contest.

Smith was a representative of the NDP's left wing in the 1979 leadership race.

Wildman had been approached by the NDP's northern Ontario MPPs about running for the leadership of the party but declined.

He ran for the NDP's party leadership at a convention in February 2000, but pulled out of the race shortly before the voting began.

The next year, Renwick became the NDP's candidate for a by-election in the downtown Toronto riding of Riverdale, against Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Charles Templeton.

The Left Caucus was nonetheless opposed by the party leadership which argued that it would hurt the NDP's chances of winning an election.

During the 2011-12 NDP leadership race, Julian took over from candidate Peggy Nash to serve as the NDP's Finance Critic until the race was over, at which point Nash retook her spot and Julian was shifted to the lower-profile position of Energy Critic.

While the NDP failed to gain any seats under his leadership, neither did they lose any ( Social Credit won 47 seats to the NDP's 22 in the newly enlarged BC Legislative Assembly ).

Robinson was involved in the New Politics Initiative, an effort to build a new progressive political party in Canada closely linked with social movements and labour, and the NDP's renewal process, although he remained committed to the party after the NPI's defeat at the 2001 general convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

He opposed the New Politics Initiative at the NDP's 2001 convention, calling instead for a renewal of the existing party organization.

In 2009 the Manitoba NDP's Riel riding association proposed a resolution on replacing the flag as " outdated and a relic from the days of our former British colonial heritage " but this was not heard by the party convention.

Historically, his election as leader has been interpreted as a victory of the provincial NDP's " establishment " over its extreme left-wing Waffle faction, because Lloyd was trying to move the party more to the political left, which meant he supported the Waffle Manifesto at the October 1969 Federal NDP convention in Winnipeg.

On October 19, 2010, Bill Tieleman wrote about John Cummins convention speech where Tieleman writes that " the BC Conservatives are going to target not only disgruntled BC Liberal voters but also the NDP's traditional support bases ".

Rodriguez spearheaded the group's only successful motion at the NDP's 1979 convention, protesting a jail sentence handed out to Jean-Claude Parrot of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

This position was not part of the NDP's official party policy, leading some high-profile party members, such as NDP House Leader Bill Blaikie and former NDP leader Alexa McDonough, to publicly indicate that they did not share Layton's views.

The ensuing compromise in the NDP's favour was protested by the other opposition parties who used it as a pretext to force a non-confidence vote.

This by-election was notable for many reasons, including the incredibly low support the governing NDP received ( coming in fourth ), and marking the absolute low point for the NDP's electoral support.

One was the NDP's provincial affiliates in British Columbia and Ontario, whose unpopularity in government reflected badly on the federal party.

He was re-elected in the new riding of Broadview — Greenwood in the 1979 federal election, and gained national prominence as the NDP's finance critic.

Besides many NDP supporters nationwide voting Liberal to ensure that the Conservatives would be defeated ( to avoid the vote-splitting of the 1988 election ), the Rae government's unpopularity was a major factor in the federal NDP's losses.

Blaikie was appointed as the NDP's Social Policy Critic in 1979, and was promoted to Health Critic in 1980.

He was retained as the NDP's External Affairs Critic after the Progressive Conservatives won a second consecutive majority government in the 1988 federal election, and was also chosen as his party's spokesman for federal-provincial relations and the Constitution.

He was also named as the NDP's National Defence Critic, and was front and centre in pushing the Liberals to not participate in the Iraq War, in opposing Canadian participation in ballistic missile defence, and in asking questions about the rules of engagement and changing role of Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

The NDP's predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), was a democratic socialist political party, founded in 1932.

This voting practice did do damage to the NDP's electoral fortunes because it was interpreted as a call for blanket support for Liberal candidates over NDP candidates, with no real thought to which candidate had a better chance to defeat a Conservative in any individual riding.

The NDP's representation in the Legislature was again reduced to seven seats when Marilyn Churley resigned her seat to run in the 2006 federal election.

The election was the first to be conducted under the NDP's new partial one member, one vote system, in which the popular vote of the members is weighted for 75 % of the result.

The dispute over the Waffle led to the disbanding of the Ontario NDP's youth wing in 1972, which was not revived until 1988.

Dosanjh was the former leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia and briefly Premier of British Columbia before his and the BC NDP's election loss in 2001.

Green opposed what he described as " special privileges " for unions and minority groups, and was particularly opposed to the NDP's plans for anti-scab legislation.