The Government's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) and the National Development Policy ( NDP ) which superseded it, were implemented to advance the standing of Bumiputera Malaysians.

This is attributed to a few factors: ( 1 ) he felt the federal NDP could not achieve power, because of Tommy Douglas's inability to attract voters in Quebec, ( 2 ) Trudeau expressed doubts about the centralizing policies of Canada's socialists ( he favoured a more decentralized approach ), and ( 3 ) there were " real differences " between his approach and the NDP's " two nations " approach to the Canadian constitution and the role of Quebec within Canada.

The results were surprising: with a record 89 % voter turnout, James Fitz-Allen Mitchell's New Democratic Party ( NDP ) won nine seats in the house of assembly.

In 1998, Prime Minister Mitchell and the NDP were returned to power for an unprecedented fourth term but only with a slim margin of eight seats to seven seats for the Unity Labour Party ( ULP ).

It was claimed that members of the Australian Labor Party were recognised handing out this card and that the allocation of preferences to the ALP on the card damaged 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.

Various provincial parks created during the previous NDP regime were also downgraded to protected area status, meaning they could be opened for resource exploitation, and fees for use of parks were raised.

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.

Andrew Coyne suggested that the NDP not only wanted to disassociate themselves from the scandal-ridden Liberals, but also because the Liberals were likely to receive credit for legislation achieved under the Liberal-NDP partnership.

Among the new NDP candidates elected was Olivia Chow, making the two only the second husband-and-wife team in Canadian Parliament history ( Gurmant Grewal and Nina Grewal were the first husband-and-wife team in Canadian Parliament after the 2004 federal election ).

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.

But while all COPE council candidates were elected, no Civic NDP candidates were ( since a 1983 byelection, COPE had consistently out-performed all other leftist candidates on the concurrently elected School and Parks Boards ).

The Socreds lost more than half their popular vote from 1986 and were cut down to seven seats, falling to third place in the Legislative Assembly behind the NDP and Liberals.

He was also known for his retelling of the fable of " Mouseland ", likens the majority of voters as mice, and how they either elect black or white cats as their politicians, but never their own mice: meaning that workers and their general interests were not being served by electing wealthy politicians from the Liberal or Conservative parties ( black and white cats ), and that only a party from their class ( mice ), originally the CCF, later the NDP, could serve their interests ( mice ).

Despite sharp ideological differences, Reform's populism struck a responsive chord with many NDP voters who were dissatisfied with Audrey McLaughlin's leadership and Ontario supporters who were frustrated with the government of NDP Premier Bob Rae.

Earlier comments Schreyer had made describing homosexuality as an " affliction " were raised by his electoral opponents in the campaign, as the NDP by that time supported same-sex marriage.

Implementation of this change took place in July 1995, when all 127 unanimous recommendations made by the scientific panel on Clayoquot Sound were accepted by the Forests Minister of British Columbia, Andrew Petter, and the Environment Minister, Elizabeth Cull on behalf of the NDP government.

Matters were made worse for the federal NDP after Saskatchewan's NDP Premier Roy Romanow resigned in 2000 after the party lost seats in the 1999 Saskatchewan provincial election, and afterwards suggested that the federal NDP should merge with the Liberal Party.

Despite being rated highly for her debate performance by media commentators, Carr's performance was poorly rated by the public and her own vote share declined to 25 % in her home constituency of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, 17 % behind the victorious NDP candidate.

The NDP were victorious in the election of 1999, and Friesen again scored an easy victory in her own riding.

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.

She was expected to be strong competition in her riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, but finished third again with 25 % of the vote ( a decline of 2 %), 14 % behind the victorious NDP candidate.

Gilles Bisson won the riding for the NDP in 1990 and served first as MPP for Cochrane South from 1990 to 1999 and then as MPP for Timmins-James Bay, from 1999 to present.

Schreyer returned to politics for the 1999 election in Manitoba, offering his support to the NDP, by then led by Gary Doer.

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

In the 1999 provincial election, his son Lawrie Cherniack ran for the NDP in Fort Garry against Joy Smith, and lost by only 30 votes.

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

One of the problems that likely affected NDP support was strategic voting, not unlike that of the 1999 election.

In the 1999 provincial election, Romanow's NDP received slightly less popular support as a share of the vote than the conservative opposition Saskatchewan Party led by Elwin Hermanson, a former Reform MP.

The 1999 election was considered too close to call until election day, but the NDP benefited from a decline in Liberal support and won 32 seats to form a majority government.

The latter development allowed the anti-Tory vote to coalesce around the NDP, contributing to that party's 1999 victory.

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.

He entered politics at a relatively late stage of his career, being first elected to the Legislative Council of the British Virgin Islands ( now called the House of Assembly ) in the 1999 general election, as the head of the newly formed National Democratic Party ( NDP ).

In the byelection that followed in early 1999, Liberal candidate Rick Limoges narrowly defeated Joe Comartin of the NDP.

However, in 1999, the provincial ridings of Nickel Belt and Sudbury East were merged for the 1999 provincial election, and Morin declined to run for the NDP nomination rather than competing against Sudbury East's popular incumbent Shelley Martel.

When the Broadway riding was eliminated by redistribution in 1999, Santos won the NDP nomination in Wellington ( also in Winnipeg's northwest ), and was returned by a wide margin in the 1999 provincial election.

He would later serve as House Leader for the NDP in opposition, and was easily re-elected in the provincial elections of 1990, 1995 and 1999.

When NDP leader Gary Doer became Premier of Manitoba in October 1999, Ashton was appointed Minister of Highways and Government Services.

The NDP won the following general election in 1999.

The NDP has elected Members of Parliament ( MPs ) from New Brunswick, but most of the focus of the party at the federal and provincial levels is currently in the Halifax area of Nova Scotia.

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

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician ( NDP ); first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party, myocardial infarction

For example, Andrea Horwath's win in an Ontario provincial by-election in 2004 allowed the Ontario NDP to regain official party status with important results in terms of parliamentary privileges and funding.

The BC NDP is the provincial arm of the New Democratic Party of Canada.

Unlike other parties in Canada, where provincial and federal politics are strictly separated and members of one are not necessarily members of the other, NDP members are members of both the federal party and the provincial party.

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.

Layton was also hurt by the growing unpopularity of the provincial NDP government of Bob Rae, and by his earlier opposition to Toronto's Olympic bid.

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 May 2005 provincial election, residents of the city sent a mix of BC Liberal and NDP representatives to the British Columbia legislature.

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.

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.

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.

In the 1991 provincial election, Harcourt led the NDP back to power, defeating the Social Credit party led by Rita Johnston.

He lost to Mike Harcourt, who was later the provincial NDP leader during most of Vander Zalm's tenure as premier.

During the subsequent provincial election campaign, " Vandermania " swept BC, and the Socreds easily won another term over the opposition New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

Upon his death, former provincial NDP leader Ed Schreyer said that " Duff Roblin led a Conservative administration the likes we ’ ve not seen elsewhere in Canada and not likely to see again.

However, Schreyer returned to provincial politics in 1969, and was on June 8 elected as leader of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba ( NDP ), the successor to the Manitoba CCF.

Welland is represented in the House of Commons of Canada by the NDP MP Malcolm Allen, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by the NDP MPP Cindy Forster, representing the federal and the provincial ridings of Welland.