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.

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.

The Toronto Star endorsed the NDP for the 2011 federal election, stating that its platform " puts people first " and that Jack Layton has won the trust of many voters.

In the wake of the collapse of the British Columbia New Democratic Party ( BC NDP ) vote in the 2001 election, the Campbell-led BC Liberals won an overwhelming majority in 2001.

After the British Columbia New Democratic Party ( BC NDP ) won the 1972 election, many supporters of the Liberal and Conservative parties defected to the Social Credit League.

In the end, while the BC NDP won the election, the Liberals came in second with 17 seats.

The NDP first won election in 1972 under Dave Barrett, who served as Premier for three years.

Although the NDP won only 39 % of the vote to Campbell's 42 %, it managed to secure 39 seats to Campbell's 33.

In 2008, the NDP won two key by-elections in Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Burrard.

Federal support for Layton and the NDP in the election was unprecedented, especially in the province of Quebec where the party won 59 out of 75 seats.

Olivia Chow and several other prominent Toronto NDP candidates lost tight races and Layton won his own seat against incumbent Liberal Dennis Mills by a much narrower margin than early polls indicated.

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.

The NDP had gone into the election with only one seat in Quebec, that of Mulcair, and had won but a single seat in the province historically ( Phil Edmonston in a 1990 by-election ).

When Harcourt resigned as a result of the Bingogate scandal, Clark stood for and won the leadership of the BC NDP and therefore became BC's 31st Premier.

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

Besides taking over nearly all of the PC seats in the West, Reform also won several ridings held by the social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

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.

In 2004 and 2006, the NDP candidate, Charlie Angus won the seat.

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.

In 1987, she ran in a by-election and won, the first federal NDP candidate to win in Yukon.

While the NDP only outpolled the Liberals by a narrow six-point margin, they managed to unseat many Liberal incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area.

Complacency from Telegdi's campaign along with hard work by Braid's campaign, his appeal to a wide range of voters including those in the suburbs, endorsement from popular local MPP Elizabeth Witmer, increased support for the local Green and NDP candidates, and a nation-wide surge for Harper's Conservatives combined to give Braid a narrow nail-biting victory of 73 votes on election night.

Lamoureux scored a narrow victory over NDP incumbent Don Scott in the north end division of Inkster and entered the legislature as a member of the Official Opposition.

The NDP was re-elected with a narrow majority government, and Pawley did not re-appoint Walding as speaker.

He was re-elected by a greater majority in the 1986 election, which the NDP won by a narrow margin.

In early 1988, Kostyra introduced his government's annual budget to the legislature, with the expectation that it would be passed by the narrow NDP majority in parliament.

The Liberals under Pierre Trudeau won a narrow minority government in this election, and governed for the next two years with unofficial parliamentary support from the NDP.

In the three general elections his party has contested since he took the helm, the NDP has risen from 3-12 to 7-8, within narrow reach of forming government.

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

The Liberals increased their large majority mostly at the expense of the NDP, and the Tories under Joe Clark lost many seats and remained in fifth place, but Clark was elected in Calgary Centre in the middle of Alliance country, so the overall political landscape was not significantly changed.

During these years, the NDP began to bleed support and activists to the Greens who reached 5 % in the polls in the fall of 1997 and 11 % by the fall of 1998 ; however, by far the majority of the NDP's former voters deserted the party for the centre-right BC Liberals.

The Conservative Party now holds a majority government, with the NDP ( New Democratic Party ) as the official opposition.

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 ).

The Liberals increased their large majority mostly at the expense of the NDP, and the Tories under Joe Clark lost many seats and remained in fifth place, but Clark was elected in Calgary Centre in the middle of Alliance country, so the overall political landscape was not significantly changed.

The NDP entered the campaign with low expectations, as the Liberals still held a significant lead in opinion polls and all signs indicated that they would win another majority government.

The NDP was elected to a strong majority government with 74 seats.

In the end the Tories shot from third place to a landslide majority government, sweeping the NDP from power.

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.

After the expiration of the Liberal-NDP Accord in 1987, the Liberals called another provincial election, and won the second-largest majority government in Ontario's history, taking 95 seats out of 130, at the expense of the NDP and the Progressive Conservatives who dropped to third place in the legislature.

On September 5, 1990, the NDP scored one of the greatest upsets in Canadian political history, taking 74 seats for a strong majority government.

The NDP served only one term in Government, before the Social Credit Party was returned to office for four more terms of majority government under W. A. C.

Until extremely close ridings were decided on the west coast, it appeared as though the Liberals ' seat total, if combined with that of the left-wing New Democratic Party ( NDP ), would be sufficient to hold a majority in the House of Commons.

On September 6th, 2012 two by-elections were held, one in Vaughan in which the Liberal Party was ushered back in, and another in Kitchener-Waterloo, where Elizabeth Whitmer's resignation gave the Liberals a chance for majority, however the Conservative riding elected Catherine Fife of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ), leaving McGuinty's Liberals with a minority government.

However, in 1985, this veritable political dynasty ( termed the Big Blue Machine by observers ) came to an end when the minority government of Davis ' successor, Frank Miller, was defeated in the legislature by an alliance between the Liberal Party of David Peterson and the left-wing New Democratic Party ( NDP ) of Bob Rae after the PCs won a plurality but not a majority of seats in the provincial election.

He was re-elected in the 1990 provincial election, in which the NDP won a majority government.

She was re-elected in the 1990 provincial election, in which the NDP won a majority government.

As a result, the NDP won a large majority government of 74 seats while the Liberals suffered the worst defeat in their history.

The NDP used the ambiguity in the Saskatchewan Party's position to turn the election into a referendum on crown corporation ownership for many voters, and managed to narrowly win a majority government.

* June 11-Saskatchewan election: Allan Blakeney's NDP win a second consecutive majority

* October 18-Saskatchewan election: Allan Blakeney's NDP win a third consecutive majority

* April 26-Saskatchewan election: Grant Devine's PCs win a landslide majority, defeating Allan Blakeney's NDP

* October 21-The Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a majority, defeating Grant Devine's PCs