This trend carried over to the provincial level ; the provincial NDP under Rae ran a strong campaign and saw its fortunes gradually increase as election day approached.

He was re-elected in Ottawa South in the 1995 provincial election without much difficulty, which saw the Liberals maintain their status as the official opposition amid a provincial swing from the NDP to the Progressive Conservatives.

The November 2000 People's Assembly elections saw 34 members of the opposition win seats in the 454-seat assembly, facing a clear majority of 388 ultimately affiliated with the ruling National Democratic Party ( NDP ).

Some have argued that the NDP passed these changes because they saw it as being in their best interests to help the PC party stay alive.

In the 2006 provincial election the NDP failed to run a full slate and saw their popular vote collapse.

A Corporate Research Associates ( CRA ) poll conducted just weeks after the federal election in May 2011 saw NDP support rise to 20 per cent.

Reports stated that when legislature staff saw Frances Lankin, NDP MPP and a former prison guard, among the cordon, they backed off.

Wall won the Saskatchewan Party nomination for Swift Current in the 1999 election and won handily, defeating NDP incumbent John Wall ( no relation ) by 24 points as part of a wave of rural victories that saw the NDP cut down to a minority government.

The 1990 election, however, saw the Tories returned with a majority government and a resurgent NDP under Gary Doer regain official opposition status.

In the 2008 election, the NDP saw their second strongest result on the island in this riding.

The NDP saw much of its support in West Dartmouth, around Topsail Lake, the northern part of Cole Harbour, and the communities of Imperoyal and Woodside as well as the Cole Harbour 30 Indian Reserve.

The 2011 provincial election saw a rise in support for the NDP under Horwath's leadership.

This scenario repeated itself following the results of the 2011 election that saw the Liberal Party lose Official Opposition status in the House to the New Democratic Party — since the NDP has no representation in the Senate ( and favours abolition of the chamber ) the Liberals will continue to form the Official Opposition in the Senate.

His government saw medicare introduced on a national basis, after his party wrote and introduced the legislation for hospital and out-of-hospital treatment, and received the support of Douglas ' NDP.

The Manitoba Liberal Party saw its popularity increase between 1986 and 1988, as many centre-left voters abandoned the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) government of Howard Pawley.

He faced Frederickson again in the 1999 election, and saw his majority cut to only 402 votes ; the NDP were victorious in the province, and Helwer became Progressive Conservative critic for Government Services and Emergency Management in the opposition.

An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted online following the debate showed that 33 % of debate views thought the debate produced no clear winner, 31 % felt NDP leader Carole James won, 23 % felt Liberal leader Gordon Campbell won while only 12 % saw Carr as the winner.

He was the only member of the NDP to lose his seat in this election, which saw the party form government for the first time.

Fisher remained in the party and became an NDP MP, although he increasingly found himself at odds with the rest of the NDP caucus, and saw himself on the right-wing of the party.

In the 2010 general election, Eustace's NDP saw an increase in the popular vote to 48. 67 %, winning 7 seats in a close election.

Dexter's first provincial campaign in 2003 saw the NDP campaign trailing in third place in many polls and in danger of losing seats.

Dexter's third provincial campaign in 2009 saw the NDP campaign leading in many polls and on target to win a minority government.

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.

Rae initially declined a request from a provincial delegation led by Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) Dave Cooke, but reconsidered after further entreaties from former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis and many others.

The NDP declined further in the 1981 election and Cassidy stepped down.

NDP support fell even further in the 1999 election, leaving the party with just nine seats.

A subsequent corruption scandal further weakened the Tories, and a poor showing in the 1995 general election by both the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives resulted in a desire by many members of those parties for a united centre-right alternative to the governing NDP.

Since that election, the tactical nature of the relationship between some unions and the NDP has even further degraded to their point where the Canadian Auto Workers Union ( CAW ) has, since the late 1990s, supported the Liberal Party federally and in Ontario provincial elections.

This controversy provoked several calls for his resignation, and further unsettled the relationship between the government and the teaching community, which were already tense after the previous NDP administration unilaterally imposed a Social Contract.

He was resoundingly defeated by NDP candidate Maureen Hemphill, and did not attempt any further comebacks after this.

In the subsequent contest, he party went further adopted a modified OMOV process for the 2003 NDP leadership election in which the vote was calculated so that ballots cast by labour delegates had 25 % weight in the total result, while votes cast by all party members on an OMOV had a weight of 75 %.

The NDP gains were partly due to a major surge in Quebec as the party won 59 of the province's 75 seats, dominating Montreal and sweeping Quebec City and the Outaouais, although the NDP also won more seats than any other opposition party in the rest of Canada.

In 1988, COPE entered the election an equal partner with the newly-formed Civic New Democrats, a party directly affiliated with the BC NDP ; led by anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson, the coalition made few gains but under the leadership of Jim Green in 1990, it came close to winning the election.

The NDP did not, however, make the anticipated gains in the 1985 provincial election.

Mostly because of these gains in Atlantic Canada, Jean Charest's Tories and Alexa McDonough's NDP both regained official party status in the House of Commons.

The Liberals reaped most of the benefits of opposing the FTA and doubled their representation to 83 seats to emerge as the main opposition ; the NDP had also made gains but finished a distant third with 43 seats.

The growth of support for the NDP stalled, and while the Tories were kept to a minority, the NDP failed to make any gains.

The NDP gains one seat in the Ontario Legislature while the Liberals retain their 53-seat minority.

Although the NDP made some minor rural gains in the 1973 election, however, the party's core support remained urban.

The NDP looked to consolidate its strong support in the Metro Halifax area, and make gains in the conservative rural mainland and Cape Breton.

On election night, Dexter and the NDP did make small gains in the popular vote and won four more seats, including two in Dartmouth, one in Cape Breton and one in Pictou County, and the Progressive Conservative government of John Hamm was reduced to a minority administration.

The NDP did not win government, but did make major gains on election day.

The NDP looked to hold its support in the Metro Halifax area, and make gains on the South Shore and rural mainland Nova Scotia.