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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.
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.
However, some potential NDP voters may have voted Liberal to prevent a possible Conservative win.
* The 2008 – 2009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, in which Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois Members of Parliament attempted to have a vote of non-confidence against the Conservative government and replace it with a coalition government, was unprecedented in the Canadian constitutional system, as formal party based co-operation was rare.
" Federal NDP leader Jack Layton defended Schreyer, observing that many people's views on the subject have changed in the last twenty years.
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.
After leading his party to victory in the 1990 provincial election he served as the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1, 1990 to June 26, 1995, and was the first person to have led a provincial NDP government east of Manitoba.
Relations with the CAW remain especially fraught, and memories of the social contract have hurt the NDP's credibility with a new generation of public sector workers, despite the party's efforts to distance itself from the measure. Nonetheless, the Ontario NDP remained in third place in the Legislative Assembly and did not see a recovery in its level of support until a decade and a half after the Rae government's 1995 defeat.
In this case the Liberals did not even have a plurality of seats: they had 48 and the NDP had 25, but the Progressive Conservatives were the largest party with 52.
Barbe — Baie Verte, Cardigan, and Bellechasse — Etchemins — Montmagny — L ' Islet ( 286, 241, 117, 50, and 24 votes respectively ), from the Liberals to the second place candidate ( NDP, Ref, PC, PC, and BQ, respectively ) would have resulted in a minority government.
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.
Martel and former Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton were married in 1994, and have two children, Sarah and Jonathan.
The incident may have been minor, but the resulting controversy did considerable damage to both Martel's reputation and that of the provincial NDP.
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.
A large number of former Marijuana Party members have joined one of the mainstream political parties ( Bloc Québécois, NDP, Liberal, Conservative, or Green ) in order to push for reform from within.
In early 2004, after several extensions of the merger deadline, the NDP rejected Hellyer's merger proposal which would have required the NDP to change its name.
Both the modern Conservative Party and the NDP have instituted " one member one vote " systems in recent years.
Additionally, the leadership of the British Columbian and Albertan provincial NDP Youth have been held by Fightback supporters.
United in one right-leaning party, individuals who would vote either Liberal or Conservative federally have joined at different occasions to stop the left-leaning NDP.
MPP Marilyn Churley threatened to legally change her surname to " Churley-NDP " so that the Speaker would be forced to say NDP when recognizing her in the House, as a non-official party loses the right to have its members addressed in the Legislature as members of the party.

NDP and retained
He resigned as NDP leader in 1971, but retained his seat in the House of Commons.
The Liberals lost six seats, but retained their status as the official opposition, while the NDP fell to only seventeen seats and third place in the Legislative Assembly.
Notwithstanding all of this, Peterson's Liberal Party still retained a comfortable lead over the Progressive Conservatives and NDP in mid-1990 public opinion polls.
The other eight NDP ridings were all retained by their incumbent MPPs.
He was the only Nova Scotia NDP Member of Parliament elected in 1997 to have retained his seat, other than McDonough.
Ostashek's Yukon Party lost the 1996 election to the Yukon NDP though he retained his seat and became leader of the opposition.
Mulcair retained the riding for the NDP in the 2008 federal election, marking the NDP's first re-election and first general election victory in Quebec.
In the by-election that followed Laughren's departure from the legislature, Blain Morin retained Nickel Belt for the NDP.
He retained this position until 1999, when Filmon's Tories were defeated by the NDP under Gary Doer in a provincial election.
Cummings retained his own seat in the 1999 election, defeating NDP candidate Louise Wilson by 3871 votes to 3293.
The NDP, which retained a support base in the north of the province, promised to create northern training centres in Thompson and The Pas.
The NDP were defeated in the 1995 general election and reduced to third-party status, although Wildman retained the Algoma riding by a reduced margin.
In the provincial election of 2008 Mason again retained his seat, and was joined in caucus by newly elected NDP MLA Rachel Notley from Edmonton-Strathcona, the seat previously held by Pannu.
Matt Wiebe, Doer's former constituency assistant, successfully retained the riding for the NDP.
He was appointed Speaker of the Legislature on August 7, 1971, and retained the position until the NDP were defeated in the 1977 election.
He won a fairly easy re-election in the 1986 election, and retained his cabinet positions until the NDP government was unexpectedly defeated in the legislature in 1988.
The NDP entered the 1988 election with almost no hope of retaining government, and retained only twelve seats ; Kostyra himself was defeated in Seven Oaks by Liberal Mark Minenko, and has not sought a return to provincial politics since then.
In the provincial election of 2003, the Tories retained the seat by only 12 votes, but in the 2007 Election the Progressive Conservative incumbent Leanne Rowat won with 52. 83 % of the vote to the NDP candidate's 38. 53 % of the vote.
In the following year's snap election, he led the party to eight seats, twice as many as it had held at dissolution of the legislature, while also getting the second-highest popular vote, though the NDP retained official opposition status with sixteen seats.
The NDP were defeated in the 1995 election, although Pouliot retained the Lake Nipigon riding without too much difficulty.
The Liberals were unexpectedly defeated by the NDP in the 1990 election, although Grandmaitre again retained his seat without difficulty.

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