The Government's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) and the National Development Policy ( NDP ) which superseded it, were implemented to advance the standing of Bumiputera Malaysians.

Bouterse is the chairman of the Surinamese political combination Megacombinatie ( Megacombination ) and the leader of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ), which is part of the Megacombination.

Jean Duceppe also helped found the New Democratic Party branch in Quebec, which later separated from the federal NDP and merged into the Union des forces progressistes ( UFP ), which gathered 1. 0 % of the vote during the 2004 election ).

Pitman's candidacy in a riding in which the CCF was traditionally weak was seen as a test of this concept and his upset victory was used to convince the CCF and the labour movement to proceed with the founding of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

In an attempt to prevent the passing of Bill C-6, which would legislate that locked out Canada Post employees return to work, the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) led a filibustering session which lasted for fifty-eight hours.

The party's popular vote almost doubled in the 2004 election, which gave the NDP the balance of power in Paul Martin's minority government.

The NDP saw further gains in the 2006 and 2008 elections, in which the party elected 29 and 37 MPs, respectively.

On June 3, 2008, Layton voted to implement a program which would " allow conscientious objectors ... to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations ... to ... remain in Canada ..." Layton led the NDP to be instrumental in taking action on the peace issue of Canada and Iraq War resisters.

In March 2009, the NDP, under Layton's leadership, re-introduced a motion ( first passed June 3, 2008 ) which, if implemented, would allow conscientious objectors to the Iraq War to remain in Canada.

* 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.

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.

Harcourt resigned as premier in February 1996 as the result of " Bingogate ", a scandal in which an NDP member, David Stupich, used money raised by a charity bingo to fund the party.

However, the NDP elected a party record 43 seats, a record unchallenged until the 2011 election, in which the NDP won 103 seats and Jack Layton became the leader of the opposition.

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.

The NDP's focus on attacking the Liberals failed to recognize the surging support for the Canadian Alliance in the province of Saskatchewan, which the NDP had hoped to gain seats in.

Rae and Peterson signed a " Liberal-NDP Accord " in which the NDP agreed to support a Liberal government in office for two years.

Several working-class ridings which had long voted NDP became disgruntled with the party due to the Social Contract and affirmative action, so they were attracted by Harris ' populism and shifted to the Tories.

In the aftermath of the 2011 federal election in which the Liberals were reduced to third place behind the NDP, Rae speculated on national television about the possibility of future co-operation between the two parties.

He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party ( NDP ) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat.

Much of that support bled to the NDP, which won 58 seats, including a sweep of the Bloc's heartlands in Quebec City and eastern Montreal.

Vision 2020 was accompanied by the NEP's replacement, the National Development Policy ( NDP ), under which some government programs designed to benefit the bumiputera exclusively were opened up to other ethnicities.

He continued to hold these parliamentary roles after the 1997 election, in which the Liberals won a second majority government and the NDP made a partial recovery to 21 seats.

The NDP have retained many of the socialist tendencies of the former CCF and remain to the left of some other social democratic parties in the Western world, such as Britain ’ s Labour Party.

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 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.