Robinson ran to succeed Audrey McLaughlin as leader of the NDP at the 1995 NDP leadership convention, but withdrew in favor of Alexa McDonough after the first ballot, even though he had received the most votes at the convention and had won regional primaries in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.

On 26 March 2011, Bloc Québécois leader Duceppe stated that Conservative leader Stephen Harper had in 2004 tried to form a coalition government with the Bloc and NDP in response to Harper's allegations that the Liberals intended to form a coalition with the Bloc and the NDP.

The same fate that they dealt to the PC party back in 1993 had been delivered to them by the NDP, although the Bloc's loss was not as severe.

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 103 NDP MPs had been taking it in turn to deliver 20 minute speeches-plus 10 minutes of questions and comments-in order to delay the passing of the bill.

Liberal and NDP memories of unfair voting results for their respective parties in previous elections, fresh during the first BC-STV campaign, had faded.

The NDP introduced capital taxes, slashed funding to universities, but suffered the most for bringing clarity to the accounting Social Credit had used, and showed that BC was significantly in debt.

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 ).

Although largely continuing Harcourt's policy agenda, Clark's government appeared rudderless with the campaign behind it and the Premier's scrappy style began to further alienate parts of the NDP coalition outside of the core group of labour activists who had masterminded Clark's campaign.

The region had not voted NDP in 1996 but had in 1991.

In 2005, James came closer to forming a government than even the NDP had predicted, winning 33 seats to Campbell's 45 and receiving a vote share 5 % higher in suburban Vancouver than any pollster had predicted.

On March 26, 2011, in response to Harper's allegations that a coalition is not a legitimate or principled way to form government, Duceppe stated that Harper had once tried to form a coalition government with the Bloc and NDP.

The NDP had also lost close races in the 2004 election due to the Liberals ' strategic voting.

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.

Hargrove preferred a Liberal minority government supported by the NDP and he had earlier criticized Layton for participating in the motion of non-confidence that brought down the Liberal government.

During the final week of the campaign, knowing that last-minute strategic voting had cost the NDP seats in several close ridings during the 2004 election, Hargrove and Martin urged all progressive voters to unite behind the Liberal banner to stop a Conservative government.

Shortly after the election, the Ontario provincial branch of the NDP revoked Hargrove's party membership because he had violated the party's constitution by campaigning for other parties during an election campaign, though Layton disagreed with this.

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 ).

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.

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.

Since the 1984 election, politics in St. Vincent have been dominated by the NDP.

In a CBC interview, Sauvé conceded that the NDP members may have been right that the Liberals may have been allowed more questions over two or three days, but, on the whole, each party received an equal number of opportunities.

Its longest-serving politician had been Svend Robinson of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ), Canada's first openly gay member of Parliament, but after 25 years and seven elections he resigned his post in early 2004 after stealing and then returning an expensive ring.

This marked the second time that the NDP had ever been in power in BC, and the first since 1975.

These comments had not been approved in advance by the NDP, but Schreyer's position was vindicated in 2001, when local PC organizer Heather Campbell-Dewar pleaded guilty to defaming Nevakshonoff's character and making a false or misleading statement to the police.

When the NDP took up government in 1991, they utilized all the information that had been compiled from both the committee and the task force to create their land use plan which they announced in 1993.

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

Had the Progressive Conservatives been just a few seats short of the requisite twelve and the NDP had stayed at least twelve seats, the Liberal government would likely have exercised this option as they had done for Social Credit in 1974.

He had originally been a Liberal in the 1970s before joining the NDP.

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

In December 2008, Blakie announced that he would seek the NDP nomination for the provincial division of Elmwood, which had been vacated by Jim Maloway, Blaikie's own successor in the federal riding of Elmwood-Transcona.

The NDP ( and its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ) had been the traditional Western protest party for most of the last 40 years, but since the 1990s they attempted to make inroads in Quebec and joined the Conservatives and Liberals in supporting the Charlottetown Accord.

Peterson even lost his own seat, having been resoundingly defeated by NDP candidate Marion Boyd in London Centre by over 8, 200 votes.

Even NDP opposition leader Mike Harcourt admitted later that he preferred Johnston over McCarthy, as the latter would likely have been a much tougher opponent in an election.

The incident may have been minor, but the resulting controversy did considerable damage to both Martel's reputation and that of the provincial NDP.

September 2007 polling had the NDP at 14 %, while the September 29th Ipsos poll had them at 17 %, meaning that NDP's support has been constant for a year within the margin of error.

She distanced the ONDP from former Premier Bob Rae, now interim leader of the federal Liberal Party of Canada, by pointing out that he is the exception to the rule of NDP Premiers in other provinces who have been able to balance provincial budgets.

The opposition parties have been weak and divided and are not yet credible alternatives to the NDP.

Additionally, the leadership of the British Columbian and Albertan provincial NDP Youth have been held by Fightback supporters.

In the 2009 provincial election the NDP formed a majority government, the first in the region.

In 1960, the CCF's name was changed nationally to the New Party, then in 1961 to the " New Democratic Party " ( NDP ), reflecting the national party formed from an alliance of the CCF and the Canadian Labour Congress.

By the late 70s, a breakaway faction of TEAM, comprising provincial NDP supporters and led by future premier Michael Harcourt formed an uneasy electoral alliance with COPE, from which both parties benefited.

In the Canadian province of Ontario, the Liberal Party formed a minority government from 1985 to 1987 on the basis of a formal accord with the New Democratic Party ( NDP ): the NDP agreed to support the Liberals for two years on all confidence motions and budgetary legislation, in exchange for the passage of certain legislative measures proposed by the NDP.

The Liberals formed a minority government with NDP support, and Peterson was sworn in as premier.

The NDP under Schreyer formed a minority government following the 1969 election.

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 1915, Blatchford formed the National Democratic and Labour Party ( NDP ) as a right-wing split-off from the British Socialist Party and for the 1918 General Election, the NDP stood in 18 constituencies and won 9 members of Parliament with a total of 156, 834 votes, making it the first party formed by a right-wing split from the Labour party in Britain to win seats in Parliament at a general election.

The party was formed on 17 December 1961, 10 days after the Rhodesian government banned the National Democratic Party ( NDP ).

The party was formed to present a united conservative option to voters in opposition to the BC Liberals and the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

Argue became a candidate in the race to be the first leader of the newly formed NDP at their August 3, 1961 leadership convention.

The NDP won 28 out of 57 seats in the 1969 election, and formed a minority government after gaining the support of maverick Manitoba Liberal Party Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) Laurent Desjardins.

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.

With his party's victory, it marks the first time in Canadian provincial politics that an NDP government had been formed in a province east of Ontario.

In 1982 the Cape Breton Labour Party was formed by MLA Paul MacEwan after he was expelled from the NDP.

Once the NDP was formed, the New Party clubs, and affiliates automatically ceased, and became part of newly formed party.

The New Brunswick NDP was formed in 1962.

When Curling was ordered expelled from the legislature for using what was judged to be unparliamentary language, he refused to leave his seat, and a knot of fellow Liberal and NDP opposition members formed a cordon around him to prevent his physical removal.