The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

Out of Canada's three most prominent political parties, neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party is officially in favour of abolishing the monarchy ( though the latter makes support for constitutional monarchy a founding principle in its policy declaration ) and the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has no official position on the role of the Crown.

With a minority government in the House of Commons, Clark had to rely on the support of the Social Credit Party, with its six seats, or the New Democratic Party ( NDP ), with its 26 seats.

The Toronto Star endorsed the NDP for the 2011 federal election, stating that its platform " puts people first " and that Jack Layton has won the trust of many voters.

He needed 12. 5 % of the vote to win a seat in the Senate voting system, but a primary vote of 9. 6 % was insufficient when Labor gave its preferences to the conservative Liberal and National Parties ahead of the NDP.

On April 4, exhausted and often sleepy government members inadvertently let one of the NDP amendments pass, and the handful of residents of Cafon Court in Etobicoke were granted the right to a public consultation on the bill, although the government subsequently nullified this with an amendment of its own.

Each time, Bennett was able to effectively use the " Red Menace " tactic against the NDP and its leaders during this time, Robert Strachan and, in the 1969 general election, against Thomas Berger.

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.

Despite these problems, Layton led the NDP to a 15 % popular vote, its highest in 16 years.

With the ruling Liberal Party being reduced to a minority government, revelations of the sponsorship scandal damaging its popularity to the point where both the Conservative Party and the Bloc Québécois were pressing their advantage for a snap election, the Prime Minister approached the NDP for its support.

" In the end, the NDP gained 8 new seats, taking its tally to 37.

The NDP managed to retain Outremont, held by Thomas Mulcair, its only seat in the province.

The NDP also embarked upon the largest advertising campaign in its history, focusing on the Government's health care record.

In the May 2, 2011, election, Layton led the NDP to 103 seats, more than double its previous high.

The provincial government at the time, led by New Democratic Party ( NDP ) premier Glen Clark, decided to use provincial Crown corporation BC Ferries to advance its economic goal of supporting British Columbia's shipbuilding industry by creating a fleet of custom-designed high-speed catamaran passenger / vehicle ferries for BC Ferries.

Thus, following the 1990 election, COPE officially merged with the Civic NDP, changing its name from the Committee of Progressive Electors to the Coalition of Progressive Electors.

Since 1993, COPE has nominated candidates for all civic offices ( Mayor, City Councillor, School Board Trustee, and Parks Commissioner ) but its closer affiliation with an incumbent provincial NDP government and inability to negotiate a deal with the Greens, who began siphoning votes in increasing numbers, resulted in flagging performance.

While the NDP did better in elections than its CCF predecessor, the party did not experience the breakthrough it had hoped for and did not recognize his abilities until later in the days.

McLaughlin had taken over the NDP at its height.

In Nova Scotia, the provincial NDP lost seats in its 1999 election while the NDP government of the Yukon had been recently defeated.

The NDP had never governed Ontario before, and Ontario was experiencing its worst recession since the Great Depression.

This policy was controversial, and it cost the NDP support among its unionized working-class base of support.

From the time he was born, and through his early childhood, his father was the National Secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), the predecessor party to the NDP.

Subsequently the Tories picked up two seats from the Liberals in by-elections, and the Liberals ( who had won 169 seats in 1953 ) lost an additional seat to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF, the predecessor of the New Democratic Party ( NDP )).

Vancouver East is known as a New Democratic Party stronghold ; the NDP and its Co-operative Commonwealth Federation predecessor have won all but two elections in the riding since its creation in 1933.

It was said that this would have followed the path set by the NDP when it was created in 1961 by its predecessor party, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, and labour unions, but the NPI did not propose a formal merger, but a disbanding.

He first campaigned for national office in 1949, running for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation ( predecessor to the NDP ) in the riding of Portage — Neepawa.

Fries had previously campaigned for the federal Cooperative Commonwealth Federation ( predecessor to the NDP ) in the elections of 1957 and 1958.

On May 23, Kennedy was the first candidate not from the NDP or its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, to win the seat since 1955.

Donald C. MacDonald had led the Ontario NDP and its predecessor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, since 1953, and was seen as out of touch with the younger, more radical mood of the 1960s.

Phillips generally avoided the controversies of her predecessor, although she was once criticized for attending an NDP caucus meeting during her tenure as speaker.

It has elected a member of the NDP ( and its predecessor the CCF ) since 1952.

The constituency and its predecessors have been the most reliable in the province for the NDP ( and its predecessor the CCF ), having elected members of the party continuously since 1944.

This riding and its predecessor ridings have voted NDP in six of the last seven contests.

Industrial Cape Breton has historically been a region of labour activism, electing Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( and later NDP ) MPs, and even produced many early members of the Communist Party of Canada in the pre-World War II era.

For the 1952 provincial election, the Liberal-Conservative provincial coalition government switched the electoral system from first past the post to the Alternative Vote, The coalition was nervous about the growing popularity of the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( forerunner of the NDP ).

The emergence of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), forerunner of the NDP – a left-of-centre political party formed by the coming together of various socialist, farm and labour groups under a united front – forced the Liberals to the right.

In 1957, when John George Diefenbaker took power with a minority Progressive Conservative government, he offered the Speaker's chair to Stanley Knowles of the opposition Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( the precursor to the NDP ), who declined.

The Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

The NDP is the successor party to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ).

When the NDP was created by the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and the Canadian Labour Congress ( CLC ), Trade unions were allowed to directly affiliate to the party, and a system was unofficially arranged so that up to one-third of all delegates to NDP conventions were selected by labour and the other two-thirds by NDP riding associations.

Howard first sat as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then for its successor, the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

Since its creation, St. Johns has been represented by members of the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and its successor, the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

She was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in her youth and was friends with future NDP leader Stephen Lewis and his siblings, and was a longtime member of its successor, the New Democratic Party.