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Incorporated [Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and [Canadian Labour Congress| dissolution={{{dissolution-->}| -->|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"{{Infobox Canada Political Party/active/lifespan/leader| leader=[Jack Layton| president=[Anne McGrath| headquarters=300 - 279 [Laurier Avenue W
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1 [Canadian Senate (not officially recognized)|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Website| www.ndp.ca |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| colspan="2" ||}The New Democratic Party (NPD; Nouveau parti démocratique in French language) is a political party in Canada with a progressivism social democracy philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels. In the Canadian House of Commons, it represents the centre-left position in the Politics of Canada. The leader of the federal NDP is Jack Layton. Provincial New Democratic Parties currently form the government in two Provinces and territories of Canada—Manitoba, and Saskatchewan and have previously formed government in British Columbia, Ontario and in the Yukon territory.

Principles, policies and electoral achievement The NDP grew from populism, agrarianism and democratic socialist roots. Today it is known for its relationships with non-governmental organizations and organized labour. While the party is secular and pluralistic, it has a longstanding relationship with the Christian left and the Social Gospel movement, particularly the United Church of Canada. However, the federal party has broadened to include concerns of the New Left, which advocates progressive issues such as gay rights, peace, and environmental protection.

New Democrats today advocate, among other things:

The NDP has never formed the federal government, but has wielded considerable influence during federal minority governments, such as in the recently dissolved 38th Canadian Parliament and, before, the Liberal Party of Canada governments of Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, due to being a large enough group to decide outcomes when the others are splita. Provincial New Democratic Parties, technically sections of the federal party, have governed several Provinces and territories of Canada. They currently govern the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, form the Official Opposition in British Columbia and Nova Scotia and have sitting members in every provincial legislature except those of Quebec, New Brunswick (although the New Brunswick NDP had an elected member until 2006) and Prince Edward Island. They have previously formed governments in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, and in the Yukon territory. The NDP also formed the official opposition in Alberta during the 1980s.

The New Democrats are also active municipally, and have been elected mayors, councillors, and school and service board members — Toronto mayor David Miller (Canadian politician) is a leading example, although he did not renew his membership. Like most municipal office-holders in Canada, they are usually elected as independents or with autonomous municipal parties.

History Origins and early history ,
Leader: 1961-1971

The NDP was created in 1961 as a merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/roots/ccf2ndp.html Tommy Douglas, the long-time CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, was elected the party's first leader. In 1960, before the NDP was officially registered, one candidate, Walter Pitman, won a by-election under the New Party (Canada) banner.

The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's conventions as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast. Until 1983, the basic statement of principles of the party was embodied in the Winnipeg Declaration, which was passed by the CCF in 1956.

Trudeau minority ,
Leader: 1971-1975

Under the leadership of David Lewis (politician) (1971-1975), the NDP supported the minority government formed by Pierre Trudeau's Liberals from 1972 to 1974, although the two parties never entered into a coalition government. Together they succeeded in passing several socially progressive initiatives into law such as pension indexing and the creation of the crown corporation Petro-Canada. http://canadaonline.about.com/od/federalndp/p/davidlewis.htm

In 1974, the NDP worked with the Progressive Conservatives to pass a motion of non-confidence, forcing an Canadian federal election, 1974. However, it backfired as Trudeau's Liberals regained a majority government, mostly at the expense of the NDP, which lost half its seats. Lewis lost his own riding and resigned as leader.

Height of popularity ,
Leader: 1975-1989Under the leadership of Ed Broadbent (1975-1989), the NDP played a critical role during Joe Clark's minority government of 1979-1980, moving the Motion of No Confidence on John Crosbie's budget that brought down the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) government, and forced the election that brought Trudeau's Liberal Party back to power.

In the Canadian federal election, 1984, which saw the Conservatives win the most seats in Canadian history, the NDP won 30 seats, only one behind the 31 it won in Canadian federal election, 1972. The Liberals were decimated, falling to 40 seats, and there was some talk that the NDP could push them into Liberal Party (UK). Afterwards, Broadbent himself consistently out-polled Liberal leader John Turner and even Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

The NDP elected a record 43 Member of Parliament (MPs) in the Canadian federal election, 1988. The Liberals, however, had reaped most of the benefits of opposing free trade to emerge as the dominant alternative to the ruling government. The Conservatives' barrage of attacks on the Liberal momentum, as well as vote-splitting between the NDP and Liberals, helped them win a second consecutive majority. In 1989, Broadbent stepped down after 15 years as federal leader of the NDP. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/broadbent/

Decline At the New Democratic Party leadership conventions, former List of British Columbia premiers Dave Barrett and Audrey McLaughlin were the main contenders for the leadership. During the campaign, Barrett argued that the party should be concerned with Western Alienation, rather than focusing its attention on Quebec. The Quebec wing of the NDP strongly opposed Barrett's candidacy, with Phil Edmonston, the party's main spokesman in Quebec, threatening to resign from the party if Barrett won. http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000533 Barrett's campaign was also hurt when his back-room negotiations with leadership rival Simon De Jong were inadvertently recorded by the latter's CBC microphone. In these discussions, De Jong apparently agreed to support Barrett in exchange for being named House Leader, but he changed his mind at the last minute and supported McLaughlin instead, announcing his endorsement of her before the vote. In the course of his discussion with Barrett, De Jong explained "It's a head and heart thing," i.e., that his head told him to go with Dave while his heart told him to go with Audrey. McLaughlin won the leadership on the fourth ballot, becoming the first woman in Canada to lead a political party.

Although enjoying strong support among organized labour and rural voters in the Prairies, McLaughlin tried to expand their support into Quebec without much success. In 1989, the Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec adopted a Quebec sovereignty platform and severed its ties with the federal NDP. Under McLaughlin, the party did manage to have the first MP from Quebec elected under the NDP banner, Phil Edmonston, who won a 1990 by-election.

In a deviation from their traditional position as staunch federalists, the NDP chose to align itself with the Conservatives and Liberals on the "yes" side of the Charlottetown Accord referendum in 1992. Barrett reluctantly endorsed it to comply with party policy (he opposed the Meech Lake Accord in 1987), but later referred to the NDP's support for the Accord as a mistake. Edmonston, a Quebec nationalist, frequently clashed with his own party over this position on Canadian federalism, since he opposed decentralization and devolving powers to Quebec, and did not run for re-election.

The NDP was routed in the Canadian federal election, 1993. It won only nine seats, three seats short of official party status in the House of Commons. Several factors contributed to this dramatic collapse just one election after winning a record number of seats and after being first in opinion polling at one point during the previous Parliament. One was the massive unpopularity of NDP provincial governments under Bob Rae in Ontario and Michael Harcourt in British Columbia. Not coincidentally, the NDP was routed in these provinces; it lost all 10 of its Ontario MPs and 17 of its 19 British Columbia MPs. The Ontario NDP would be soundly defeated in 1995, while the British Columbia NDP recovered and won reelection in 1996.

The NDP was also indirectly hampered by the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who were cut down to only two seats. Exit polls showed that 17% to 27% of NDP supporters from 1988 voted Liberal in 1993. It was obvious by the beginning of October that Liberal leader Jean Chrétien would be the next prime minister. However, the memory of 1988's vote splitting combined with the tremendous antipathy toward the PCs caused NDP supporters to vote Liberal to ensure the Conservatives would be defeated. Many voters in the NDP's traditional Western heartland also switched to the right-wing Reform Party of Canada. Despite sharp ideological differences, Reform's populism struck a chord with many NDP supporters. Barrett's warnings about Western alienation proved to be prophetic, as the rise of the Reform Party replaced the NDP as the protest voice west of Ontario.

Recovery The party recovered somewhat electing 21 New Democrats in the Canadian federal election, 1997. The NDP made a breakthrough in Atlantic Canada, unseating Liberal ministers David Dingwall and Doug Young. The party was able to harness the discontent of Maritime voters, who were upset over cuts to employment insurance and other programs.

Afterwards, McDonough was widely perceived as trying to move the party toward the centre of the political spectrum, in the Third Way (centrism) mode of Tony Blair. Union leaders were lukewarm in their support, often threatening to break away from the NDP, while Canadian Auto Workers head Buzz Hargrove called for her resignation. MPs Rick Laliberté and Angela Vautour crossed the floor to other parties during this term, reducing the NDP caucus to 19 seats.

In the November Canadian federal election, 2000, the NDP campaigned on the issue of Medicare but lost significant support. The governing Liberals ran an effective campaign on their economic record and managed to recapture some of the Atlantic ridings lost to the NDP in the 1997 election. The initial high electoral prospects of the Canadian Alliance under new leader Stockwell Day also hurt the NDP as many supporters strategically voted Liberal to keep the Alliance from winning. The NDP finished with 13 MPs--just barely over the threshold for official party status.

The party embarked on a renewal process starting in 2000. A general convention in Winnipeg in November 2001 made significant alterations to party structures, and reaffirmed its commitment to the left. In the May 2002 by-elections, Brian Masse won the riding of Windsor West in Windsor, Ontario, Ontario, previously held for decades by a Liberal, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Herb Gray.

Jack Layton elected leader ,
Leader: 2003-present

McDonough announced her resignation as party leader for family reasons in June 2002, and was succeeded by Jack Layton. A former Toronto city councillor, Layton was elected at the party's New Democratic Party leadership election, 2003 in Toronto on January 5, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime Winnipeg-area MP Bill Blaikie, on the first ballot with 53.5% of the vote. http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/ndp_leadership/

Layton had run unsuccessfully for the Commons three times in Toronto-area ridings. In contrast to traditional but diminishing Canadian practice, where an MP for a safe seat stands down to allow a newly elected leader a chance to enter Parliament, Layton did not contest a seat in Parliament until the 2004 election. In the interim, he appointed Blaikie as deputy leader and made him parliamentary leader of the NDP.

2004 election The Canadian federal election, 2004 produced mixed results for the NDP. It increased its total vote by more than a million votes; however, despite Layton's optimistic predictions of reaching 40 seats, the NDP only gained five seats in the election, for a total of 19. The party was disappointed to see its two Saskatchewan incumbents defeated by the Conservatives, both in close races, http://www.canadian-politics.com/parties/parties_NDP.shtml perhaps due to the unpopularity of the NDP provincial government. Those losses caused the federal NDP to be shut out in Saskatchewan for the first time since the Canadian federal election, 1965, despite obtaining 23% of the vote in the province.

Exit polls indicated that many NDP supporters voted Liberal to keep the new Conservative Party of Canada from winning. The Liberals had recruited several prominent NDP members, most notably former British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh, to run as Liberals as part of a drive to convince NDP voters that a reunited Conservative Party could sneak up the middle in the event of a split in the centre-left vote.

The NDP campaign also experienced controversy after Layton suggested the removal of the Clarity Act, considered by some to be vital to keeping Quebec in Canada and by others as undemocratic, and promised to recognize any declaration of independence by Quebec after a referendum. This position was not part of the NDP's official party policy, leading some high-profile party members, such as NDP House Leader Bill Blaikie and former NDP leader Alexa McDonough, to publicly indicate that they did not share Layton's views. (Layton would later reverse his position and support the Act in 2006.)

The Liberals were re-elected, though this time as a minority government. Combined, the Liberals and NDP had 154 seats--one short of the total needed for the balance of power. As has been the case with Liberal minority governments in the past, the NDP were in a position to make gains on the party's priorities, such as fighting health care privatization, fulfilling Canada's obligation to the Kyoto Protocol, and electoral reform.

The party used Prime Minister Paul Martin's politically precarious position caused by the sponsorship scandal to force investment in multiple federal programs, agreeing not to help topple the government provided that some major concessions in the federal budget were ceded to. The governing Liberals agreed to support the changes in exchange for NDP support on motion of Confidence. On May 19, 2005, by Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons Peter Milliken's tie-breaking vote, the House of Commons voted for second reading on major NDP amendments to the federal budget, preempting about $4.5 billion in corporate tax cuts and funding social, educational and environmental programs instead. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/budget2005/liberal-ndp-deal.html Both NDP supporters and Conservative opponents of the measures branded it Canada's first "NDP budget". In late June, the amendments passed final reading and many political pundits concluded that the NDP had gained credibility and clout on the national scene.

2006 election

On November 9, 2005, after the findings of the Gomery Inquiry were released, Layton notified the Liberal government that continued NDP support would require a ban on private health care. When the Liberals refused, Layton announced that he would introduce a motion on November 24 that would ask Martin to call a federal election in February to allow for several pieces of legislation to be passed. The Liberals turned down this offer. The Canadian Auto Workers and the Canadian Labour Congress demanded that the NDP not topple the Liberal government, but Layton rejected the unions' demands. On November 28, 2005, Conservative leader Stephen Harper's motion of no confidence was seconded by Layton and it was passed by all three opposition parties, forcing an election. Columnist Andrew Coyne has suggested that the NDP was unlikely to receive much credit for continuing to further prop up the Liberals, so they ended their support for the Martin government.

During the Canadian federal election, 2006, the NDP focused their attacks on the Liberal party, in order to counter Liberal appeals for strategic voting. A key point in the campaign was when Judy Wasylycia-Leis had tipped off the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to launch a criminal investigation into the leaking of the income trust announcement http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060121/election_turningpoints_060121?s_name=election2006&no_ads=. The criminal probe seriously damaged the Liberal campaign and prevented them from making their key policy announcements, as well as bringing Liberal corruption back into the spotlight. (After the election, the RCMP announced the conclusion of the income trust investigation and laid a charge of 'Breach of Trust' against Serge Nadeau, an official in the Department of Finance http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=276859, while Liberal Party of Canada Finance Minister Ralph Goodale was cleared of wrongdoing http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=98a291f4-69a5-4862-8117-6fbe609f5b2a&k=36017.

The NDP campaign strategy put them at odds with Canadian Auto Workers, which had supported a NDP-backed Liberal minority government and which was only backing NDP candidates that had a chance of winning. After the campaign, the Ontario wing of the party expelled CAW leader Buzz Hargrove for his support of the Liberals. In addition, his federal membership in the party was automatically suspended.

On January 23, the NDP won 29 seats, a significant increase of 10 seats from the 19 won in 2004. It was the fourth-best performance in party history, approaching the level of popular support enjoyed in the 1980s. The NDP kept all of the 18 seats it held at the dissolution of Parliament (Paul Dewar retained the riding of Ottawa Centre vacated by Broadbent). Bev Desjarlais, a NDP MP since 2000, unsuccessfully ran as an independent in her Churchill (electoral district) riding after losing the NDP nomination. While the party gained no seats in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, or the Prairie Provinces, it gained five seats in British Columbia, five more in Ontario and the Western Arctic riding of the Northwest Territories.

Conservative minority The Conservative Party of Canada won a minority government in the 2006 election, and initially the NDP was the only party that would not be able to pass legislation with the Conservatives. However, following a series of floor crossings, the NDP also came to hold the balance of power.

There have been four confidence votes in the current parliament, and the NDP is the only party to have voted against the Conservatives on all of them. These were votes on the United States-Canada softwood lumber dispute, extending the mission to Afghanistan, the 2006 Canadian federal budget and 2007 federal budget. On other issues the NDP has worked with the Conservatives. After forcing the Conservatives to agree to certain revisions, the NDP helped pass the Federal Accountability Act. After the NDP fiercely criticized the initial Conservative attempt at a Clean Air Act, the Conservatives agreed to work with the NDP and other parties to revise the legislation.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/01/layton-green.html The NDP also supported the government in introducing regulations on Income_trust#The_Conservatives_propose_new_rules_for_income_trustss, fearing that trends toward mass trust conversions by large corporations to avoid Canadian income taxes would cause the loss of billions of dollars in budget revenue to support health care, pensions and other federal programs. At the same time, the NDP was also weary of the threat of investor losses from income trusts’ exaggerated performance expectations.

Since the election, the NDP caucus rose to 30 members following the victory of NDP candidate Thomas Mulcair in a Outremont by-election, 2007. This marked the first time in seventeen years that the NDP won a riding in that province, possibly indicating future NDP growth there.

Provincial and territorial wings , British ColumbiaUnlike most other Canadian parties, the NDP is integrated with its provincial and territorial parties, such that a member of a provincial or territorial NDP is automatically a member of the federal NDP. This precludes a person from supporting different parties at the federal and provincial levels. A key example of this was Buzz Hargrove's expulsion by the Ontario New Democratic Party after he backed Paul Martin in the 2006 election, which automatically terminated his membership in the federal party as well.

There are three exceptions. In Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, whose territorial legislatures have consensus government, the federal NDP is promoted by its riding associations, since each territory is composed of only one federal riding.

In Quebec, the Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec and the federal NDP agreed in 1989 to sever their structural ties after the Quebec party adopted a Quebec sovereignty platform. Since then, the federal NDP is not integrated with a provincial party in that province; instead, it has a section, the Nouveau Parti démocratique-Section Québec/New Democratic Party Quebec Section, whose activities in the province are limited to the federal level, whereas on the provincial level its members are individually free to support or adhere to any party.

{| class="wikitable"|+ Provincial and territorial parties, current seats, and leaders|Party!Seats/Total!Leader|-| Alberta New Democratic Party, [Member of the Legislative Assembly|-| New Democratic Party of British Columbia, MLA, [Leader of the Opposition (British Columbia)|-| New Democratic Party of Manitoba], MLA, Premier of Manitoba| align="center" | 0/55| [Pat Hanratty, Interim Leader]| align="center" | 1/48| Lorraine Michael, MHA]| align="center" | 20/52| Darrell Dexter, MLA, Leader of the Opposition (Nova Scotia)|-| Ontario New Democratic Party, [Member of Provincial Parliament|-| Island New Democrats (P.E.I.)]|-| Saskatchewan New Democratic Party], MLA, Premier of Saskatchewan| align="center" | 3/18| [Todd Hardy, MLA].

{| class="wikitable"|+ Chart of the best showings for provincial parties, and the election that provided the results|Province/Territory!Seats - Status!Election years and party leaders at the time|-| Alberta, [Ray Martin (politician); Alberta general election, 1989, Ray Martin|-| British Columbia, [Michael Harcourt| align="center" | 44| [Canadian federal election, 1988, Ed Broadbent| align="center" | 36 - Government| [Manitoba general election, 2007, Gary Doer| align="center" | 2| New Brunswick 1984 by-election, [George Little| align="center" | 2| 1987 by election [Peter Fenwick ; Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 1999, Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003, Jack Harris| align="center" | 20 - Official Opposition| [Nova Scotia general election, 2006, Darrell Dexter| align="center" | 74 - Government| [Ontario general election, 1990, Bob Rae| align="center" | 1| [Prince Edward Island general election, 1996, Herb Dickieson| align="center" | 1| [Quebec general election, 1944, (CCF, David Côté)]| align="center" | 55 - Government| Saskatchewan general election, 1991, Roy Romanow| align="center" | 11 - Government| [Yukon general election, 1996, Piers McDonald, which first came to power in 1944 as the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation under Tommy Douglas and has won most of the province's elections since then. In Canada, Tommy Douglas is often cited as the Father of Medicare since, as Saskatchewan Premier, he introduced Canada's first publicly-funded, universal healthcare system there. Despite the continued success of the Saskatchewan branch of the party, the NDP was shut out of Saskatchewan in the [Canadian federal election, 2004 for the first time in recent history. This is a trend that has been continued in the Canadian federal election, 2006. The New Democratic Party has also formed the provincial government in Manitoba, British Columbia and Ontario.

Current members of Parliament The election of January 23, 2006, gave the NDP 29 seats; it subsequently won one seat in a by-election. Twelve of its MPs are women; after the general election this represented 41% of its seats, the highest proportion of women that has ever existed in a Canadian parliamentary caucus with official party status. For a list of NDP MPs and their critic portfolios, see New Democratic Party Shadow Cabinet.

One senator, Lillian Dyck, chooses to associate herself with the NDP. However the party does not allow her to be part of the parliamentary caucus, as the NDP favours the abolition of the Canadian Senate. She sits in the Senate as an Independent New Democrat.

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Federal leaders {| class="wikitable"|-! #! Leader! From! To! Birth! Death! Ridings while leader|-| 1| Tommy Douglas|August 3, 1961, [1971, [1904, [1986, BC|-| 2| [David Lewis (politician)| April 24 1971, [1975, [1909, [1981, ON|-| 3| [Ed Broadbent|July 7 1975, [1989, [1936, [Oshawa (electoral district), ON|-| 4|Audrey McLaughlin|December 5 1989, [1995, [1936, YK|-| 5|[Alexa McDonough|October 14 1995, [2003, [1944, NS|-|6|[Jack Layton|January 25 [2003, [1950, ON|}

Federal election results 1962–2006 {| class="wikitable"! Election! # of candidates! # of seats won! # of total votes! % of popular vote|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1962| 217| 19| 1,044,754| 13.57%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1963| 232| 17| 1,044,701| 13.24%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1965| 255| 21| 1,381,658| 17.91%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1968| 263| 22| 1,378,263| 16.96%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1972| 252| 31| 1,725,719| 17.83%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1974| 262| 16| 1,467,748| 15.44%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1979| 282| 26| 2,048,988| 17.88%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1980| 280| 32| 2,150,368| 19.67%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1984| 282| 30| 2,359,915| 18.81%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1988| 295| 43| 2,685,263| 20.38%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1993| 294| 9| 933,688| 6.88%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1997| 301| 21| 1,434,509| 11.05%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 2000| 298| 13| 1,093,748| 8.51%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 2004| 308| 19| 2,116,536| 15.7%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 2006| 308| 29| 2,588,200| 17.5%|}

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1 [Canadian Senate (not officially recognized)|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Website| www.ndp.ca |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| colspan="2" ||}The New Democratic Party (NPD; Nouveau parti démocratique in French language) is a political party in Canada with a progressivism social democracy philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels. In the Canadian House of Commons, it represents the centre-left position in the Politics of Canada. The leader of the federal NDP is Jack Layton. Provincial New Democratic Parties currently form the government in two Provinces and territories of Canada—Manitoba, and Saskatchewan and have previously formed government in British Columbia, Ontario and in the Yukon territory.

Principles, policies and electoral achievement The NDP grew from populism, agrarianism and democratic socialist roots. Today it is known for its relationships with non-governmental organizations and organized labour. While the party is secular and pluralistic, it has a longstanding relationship with the Christian left and the Social Gospel movement, particularly the United Church of Canada. However, the federal party has broadened to include concerns of the New Left, which advocates progressive issues such as gay rights, peace, and environmental protection.

New Democrats today advocate, among other things:

The NDP has never formed the federal government, but has wielded considerable influence during federal minority governments, such as in the recently dissolved 38th Canadian Parliament and, before, the Liberal Party of Canada governments of Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, due to being a large enough group to decide outcomes when the others are splita. Provincial New Democratic Parties, technically sections of the federal party, have governed several Provinces and territories of Canada. They currently govern the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, form the Official Opposition in British Columbia and Nova Scotia and have sitting members in every provincial legislature except those of Quebec, New Brunswick (although the New Brunswick NDP had an elected member until 2006) and Prince Edward Island. They have previously formed governments in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, and in the Yukon territory. The NDP also formed the official opposition in Alberta during the 1980s.

The New Democrats are also active municipally, and have been elected mayors, councillors, and school and service board members — Toronto mayor David Miller (Canadian politician) is a leading example, although he did not renew his membership. Like most municipal office-holders in Canada, they are usually elected as independents or with autonomous municipal parties.

History Origins and early history ,
Leader: 1961-1971

The NDP was created in 1961 as a merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/roots/ccf2ndp.html Tommy Douglas, the long-time CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, was elected the party's first leader. In 1960, before the NDP was officially registered, one candidate, Walter Pitman, won a by-election under the New Party (Canada) banner.

The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's conventions as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast. Until 1983, the basic statement of principles of the party was embodied in the Winnipeg Declaration, which was passed by the CCF in 1956.

Trudeau minority ,
Leader: 1971-1975

Under the leadership of David Lewis (politician) (1971-1975), the NDP supported the minority government formed by Pierre Trudeau's Liberals from 1972 to 1974, although the two parties never entered into a coalition government. Together they succeeded in passing several socially progressive initiatives into law such as pension indexing and the creation of the crown corporation Petro-Canada. http://canadaonline.about.com/od/federalndp/p/davidlewis.htm

In 1974, the NDP worked with the Progressive Conservatives to pass a motion of non-confidence, forcing an Canadian federal election, 1974. However, it backfired as Trudeau's Liberals regained a majority government, mostly at the expense of the NDP, which lost half its seats. Lewis lost his own riding and resigned as leader.

Height of popularity ,
Leader: 1975-1989Under the leadership of Ed Broadbent (1975-1989), the NDP played a critical role during Joe Clark's minority government of 1979-1980, moving the Motion of No Confidence on John Crosbie's budget that brought down the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) government, and forced the election that brought Trudeau's Liberal Party back to power.

In the Canadian federal election, 1984, which saw the Conservatives win the most seats in Canadian history, the NDP won 30 seats, only one behind the 31 it won in Canadian federal election, 1972. The Liberals were decimated, falling to 40 seats, and there was some talk that the NDP could push them into Liberal Party (UK). Afterwards, Broadbent himself consistently out-polled Liberal leader John Turner and even Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

The NDP elected a record 43 Member of Parliament (MPs) in the Canadian federal election, 1988. The Liberals, however, had reaped most of the benefits of opposing free trade to emerge as the dominant alternative to the ruling government. The Conservatives' barrage of attacks on the Liberal momentum, as well as vote-splitting between the NDP and Liberals, helped them win a second consecutive majority. In 1989, Broadbent stepped down after 15 years as federal leader of the NDP. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/broadbent/

Decline At the New Democratic Party leadership conventions, former List of British Columbia premiers Dave Barrett and Audrey McLaughlin were the main contenders for the leadership. During the campaign, Barrett argued that the party should be concerned with Western Alienation, rather than focusing its attention on Quebec. The Quebec wing of the NDP strongly opposed Barrett's candidacy, with Phil Edmonston, the party's main spokesman in Quebec, threatening to resign from the party if Barrett won. http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000533 Barrett's campaign was also hurt when his back-room negotiations with leadership rival Simon De Jong were inadvertently recorded by the latter's CBC microphone. In these discussions, De Jong apparently agreed to support Barrett in exchange for being named House Leader, but he changed his mind at the last minute and supported McLaughlin instead, announcing his endorsement of her before the vote. In the course of his discussion with Barrett, De Jong explained "It's a head and heart thing," i.e., that his head told him to go with Dave while his heart told him to go with Audrey. McLaughlin won the leadership on the fourth ballot, becoming the first woman in Canada to lead a political party.

Although enjoying strong support among organized labour and rural voters in the Prairies, McLaughlin tried to expand their support into Quebec without much success. In 1989, the Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec adopted a Quebec sovereignty platform and severed its ties with the federal NDP. Under McLaughlin, the party did manage to have the first MP from Quebec elected under the NDP banner, Phil Edmonston, who won a 1990 by-election.

In a deviation from their traditional position as staunch federalists, the NDP chose to align itself with the Conservatives and Liberals on the "yes" side of the Charlottetown Accord referendum in 1992. Barrett reluctantly endorsed it to comply with party policy (he opposed the Meech Lake Accord in 1987), but later referred to the NDP's support for the Accord as a mistake. Edmonston, a Quebec nationalist, frequently clashed with his own party over this position on Canadian federalism, since he opposed decentralization and devolving powers to Quebec, and did not run for re-election.

The NDP was routed in the Canadian federal election, 1993. It won only nine seats, three seats short of official party status in the House of Commons. Several factors contributed to this dramatic collapse just one election after winning a record number of seats and after being first in opinion polling at one point during the previous Parliament. One was the massive unpopularity of NDP provincial governments under Bob Rae in Ontario and Michael Harcourt in British Columbia. Not coincidentally, the NDP was routed in these provinces; it lost all 10 of its Ontario MPs and 17 of its 19 British Columbia MPs. The Ontario NDP would be soundly defeated in 1995, while the British Columbia NDP recovered and won reelection in 1996.

The NDP was also indirectly hampered by the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who were cut down to only two seats. Exit polls showed that 17% to 27% of NDP supporters from 1988 voted Liberal in 1993. It was obvious by the beginning of October that Liberal leader Jean Chrétien would be the next prime minister. However, the memory of 1988's vote splitting combined with the tremendous antipathy toward the PCs caused NDP supporters to vote Liberal to ensure the Conservatives would be defeated. Many voters in the NDP's traditional Western heartland also switched to the right-wing Reform Party of Canada. Despite sharp ideological differences, Reform's populism struck a chord with many NDP supporters. Barrett's warnings about Western alienation proved to be prophetic, as the rise of the Reform Party replaced the NDP as the protest voice west of Ontario.

Recovery The party recovered somewhat electing 21 New Democrats in the Canadian federal election, 1997. The NDP made a breakthrough in Atlantic Canada, unseating Liberal ministers David Dingwall and Doug Young. The party was able to harness the discontent of Maritime voters, who were upset over cuts to employment insurance and other programs.

Afterwards, McDonough was widely perceived as trying to move the party toward the centre of the political spectrum, in the Third Way (centrism) mode of Tony Blair. Union leaders were lukewarm in their support, often threatening to break away from the NDP, while Canadian Auto Workers head Buzz Hargrove called for her resignation. MPs Rick Laliberté and Angela Vautour crossed the floor to other parties during this term, reducing the NDP caucus to 19 seats.

In the November Canadian federal election, 2000, the NDP campaigned on the issue of Medicare but lost significant support. The governing Liberals ran an effective campaign on their economic record and managed to recapture some of the Atlantic ridings lost to the NDP in the 1997 election. The initial high electoral prospects of the Canadian Alliance under new leader Stockwell Day also hurt the NDP as many supporters strategically voted Liberal to keep the Alliance from winning. The NDP finished with 13 MPs--just barely over the threshold for official party status.

The party embarked on a renewal process starting in 2000. A general convention in Winnipeg in November 2001 made significant alterations to party structures, and reaffirmed its commitment to the left. In the May 2002 by-elections, Brian Masse won the riding of Windsor West in Windsor, Ontario, Ontario, previously held for decades by a Liberal, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Herb Gray.

Jack Layton elected leader ,
Leader: 2003-present

McDonough announced her resignation as party leader for family reasons in June 2002, and was succeeded by Jack Layton. A former Toronto city councillor, Layton was elected at the party's New Democratic Party leadership election, 2003 in Toronto on January 5, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime Winnipeg-area MP Bill Blaikie, on the first ballot with 53.5% of the vote. http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/ndp_leadership/

Layton had run unsuccessfully for the Commons three times in Toronto-area ridings. In contrast to traditional but diminishing Canadian practice, where an MP for a safe seat stands down to allow a newly elected leader a chance to enter Parliament, Layton did not contest a seat in Parliament until the 2004 election. In the interim, he appointed Blaikie as deputy leader and made him parliamentary leader of the NDP.

2004 election The Canadian federal election, 2004 produced mixed results for the NDP. It increased its total vote by more than a million votes; however, despite Layton's optimistic predictions of reaching 40 seats, the NDP only gained five seats in the election, for a total of 19. The party was disappointed to see its two Saskatchewan incumbents defeated by the Conservatives, both in close races, http://www.canadian-politics.com/parties/parties_NDP.shtml perhaps due to the unpopularity of the NDP provincial government. Those losses caused the federal NDP to be shut out in Saskatchewan for the first time since the Canadian federal election, 1965, despite obtaining 23% of the vote in the province.

Exit polls indicated that many NDP supporters voted Liberal to keep the new Conservative Party of Canada from winning. The Liberals had recruited several prominent NDP members, most notably former British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh, to run as Liberals as part of a drive to convince NDP voters that a reunited Conservative Party could sneak up the middle in the event of a split in the centre-left vote.

The NDP campaign also experienced controversy after Layton suggested the removal of the Clarity Act, considered by some to be vital to keeping Quebec in Canada and by others as undemocratic, and promised to recognize any declaration of independence by Quebec after a referendum. This position was not part of the NDP's official party policy, leading some high-profile party members, such as NDP House Leader Bill Blaikie and former NDP leader Alexa McDonough, to publicly indicate that they did not share Layton's views. (Layton would later reverse his position and support the Act in 2006.)

The Liberals were re-elected, though this time as a minority government. Combined, the Liberals and NDP had 154 seats--one short of the total needed for the balance of power. As has been the case with Liberal minority governments in the past, the NDP were in a position to make gains on the party's priorities, such as fighting health care privatization, fulfilling Canada's obligation to the Kyoto Protocol, and electoral reform.

The party used Prime Minister Paul Martin's politically precarious position caused by the sponsorship scandal to force investment in multiple federal programs, agreeing not to help topple the government provided that some major concessions in the federal budget were ceded to. The governing Liberals agreed to support the changes in exchange for NDP support on motion of Confidence. On May 19, 2005, by Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons Peter Milliken's tie-breaking vote, the House of Commons voted for second reading on major NDP amendments to the federal budget, preempting about $4.5 billion in corporate tax cuts and funding social, educational and environmental programs instead. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/budget2005/liberal-ndp-deal.html Both NDP supporters and Conservative opponents of the measures branded it Canada's first "NDP budget". In late June, the amendments passed final reading and many political pundits concluded that the NDP had gained credibility and clout on the national scene.

2006 election

On November 9, 2005, after the findings of the Gomery Inquiry were released, Layton notified the Liberal government that continued NDP support would require a ban on private health care. When the Liberals refused, Layton announced that he would introduce a motion on November 24 that would ask Martin to call a federal election in February to allow for several pieces of legislation to be passed. The Liberals turned down this offer. The Canadian Auto Workers and the Canadian Labour Congress demanded that the NDP not topple the Liberal government, but Layton rejected the unions' demands. On November 28, 2005, Conservative leader Stephen Harper's motion of no confidence was seconded by Layton and it was passed by all three opposition parties, forcing an election. Columnist Andrew Coyne has suggested that the NDP was unlikely to receive much credit for continuing to further prop up the Liberals, so they ended their support for the Martin government.

During the Canadian federal election, 2006, the NDP focused their attacks on the Liberal party, in order to counter Liberal appeals for strategic voting. A key point in the campaign was when Judy Wasylycia-Leis had tipped off the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to launch a criminal investigation into the leaking of the income trust announcement http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060121/election_turningpoints_060121?s_name=election2006&no_ads=. The criminal probe seriously damaged the Liberal campaign and prevented them from making their key policy announcements, as well as bringing Liberal corruption back into the spotlight. (After the election, the RCMP announced the conclusion of the income trust investigation and laid a charge of 'Breach of Trust' against Serge Nadeau, an official in the Department of Finance http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=276859, while Liberal Party of Canada Finance Minister Ralph Goodale was cleared of wrongdoing http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=98a291f4-69a5-4862-8117-6fbe609f5b2a&k=36017.

The NDP campaign strategy put them at odds with Canadian Auto Workers, which had supported a NDP-backed Liberal minority government and which was only backing NDP candidates that had a chance of winning. After the campaign, the Ontario wing of the party expelled CAW leader Buzz Hargrove for his support of the Liberals. In addition, his federal membership in the party was automatically suspended.

On January 23, the NDP won 29 seats, a significant increase of 10 seats from the 19 won in 2004. It was the fourth-best performance in party history, approaching the level of popular support enjoyed in the 1980s. The NDP kept all of the 18 seats it held at the dissolution of Parliament (Paul Dewar retained the riding of Ottawa Centre vacated by Broadbent). Bev Desjarlais, a NDP MP since 2000, unsuccessfully ran as an independent in her Churchill (electoral district) riding after losing the NDP nomination. While the party gained no seats in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, or the Prairie Provinces, it gained five seats in British Columbia, five more in Ontario and the Western Arctic riding of the Northwest Territories.

Conservative minority The Conservative Party of Canada won a minority government in the 2006 election, and initially the NDP was the only party that would not be able to pass legislation with the Conservatives. However, following a series of floor crossings, the NDP also came to hold the balance of power.

There have been four confidence votes in the current parliament, and the NDP is the only party to have voted against the Conservatives on all of them. These were votes on the United States-Canada softwood lumber dispute, extending the mission to Afghanistan, the 2006 Canadian federal budget and 2007 federal budget. On other issues the NDP has worked with the Conservatives. After forcing the Conservatives to agree to certain revisions, the NDP helped pass the Federal Accountability Act. After the NDP fiercely criticized the initial Conservative attempt at a Clean Air Act, the Conservatives agreed to work with the NDP and other parties to revise the legislation.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/01/layton-green.html The NDP also supported the government in introducing regulations on Income_trust#The_Conservatives_propose_new_rules_for_income_trustss, fearing that trends toward mass trust conversions by large corporations to avoid Canadian income taxes would cause the loss of billions of dollars in budget revenue to support health care, pensions and other federal programs. At the same time, the NDP was also weary of the threat of investor losses from income trusts’ exaggerated performance expectations.

Since the election, the NDP caucus rose to 30 members following the victory of NDP candidate Thomas Mulcair in a Outremont by-election, 2007. This marked the first time in seventeen years that the NDP won a riding in that province, possibly indicating future NDP growth there.

Provincial and territorial wings , British ColumbiaUnlike most other Canadian parties, the NDP is integrated with its provincial and territorial parties, such that a member of a provincial or territorial NDP is automatically a member of the federal NDP. This precludes a person from supporting different parties at the federal and provincial levels. A key example of this was Buzz Hargrove's expulsion by the Ontario New Democratic Party after he backed Paul Martin in the 2006 election, which automatically terminated his membership in the federal party as well.

There are three exceptions. In Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, whose territorial legislatures have consensus government, the federal NDP is promoted by its riding associations, since each territory is composed of only one federal riding.

In Quebec, the Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec and the federal NDP agreed in 1989 to sever their structural ties after the Quebec party adopted a Quebec sovereignty platform. Since then, the federal NDP is not integrated with a provincial party in that province; instead, it has a section, the Nouveau Parti démocratique-Section Québec/New Democratic Party Quebec Section, whose activities in the province are limited to the federal level, whereas on the provincial level its members are individually free to support or adhere to any party.

{| class="wikitable"|+ Provincial and territorial parties, current seats, and leaders|Party!Seats/Total!Leader|-| Alberta New Democratic Party, [Member of the Legislative Assembly|-| New Democratic Party of British Columbia, MLA, [Leader of the Opposition (British Columbia)|-| New Democratic Party of Manitoba], MLA, Premier of Manitoba| align="center" | 0/55| [Pat Hanratty, Interim Leader]| align="center" | 1/48| Lorraine Michael, MHA]| align="center" | 20/52| Darrell Dexter, MLA, Leader of the Opposition (Nova Scotia)|-| Ontario New Democratic Party, [Member of Provincial Parliament|-| Island New Democrats (P.E.I.)]|-| Saskatchewan New Democratic Party], MLA, Premier of Saskatchewan| align="center" | 3/18| [Todd Hardy, MLA].

{| class="wikitable"|+ Chart of the best showings for provincial parties, and the election that provided the results|Province/Territory!Seats - Status!Election years and party leaders at the time|-| Alberta, [Ray Martin (politician); Alberta general election, 1989, Ray Martin|-| British Columbia, [Michael Harcourt| align="center" | 44| [Canadian federal election, 1988, Ed Broadbent| align="center" | 36 - Government| [Manitoba general election, 2007, Gary Doer| align="center" | 2| New Brunswick 1984 by-election, [George Little| align="center" | 2| 1987 by election [Peter Fenwick ; Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 1999, Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003, Jack Harris| align="center" | 20 - Official Opposition| [Nova Scotia general election, 2006, Darrell Dexter| align="center" | 74 - Government| [Ontario general election, 1990, Bob Rae| align="center" | 1| [Prince Edward Island general election, 1996, Herb Dickieson| align="center" | 1| [Quebec general election, 1944, (CCF, David Côté)]| align="center" | 55 - Government| Saskatchewan general election, 1991, Roy Romanow| align="center" | 11 - Government| [Yukon general election, 1996, Piers McDonald, which first came to power in 1944 as the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation under Tommy Douglas and has won most of the province's elections since then. In Canada, Tommy Douglas is often cited as the Father of Medicare since, as Saskatchewan Premier, he introduced Canada's first publicly-funded, universal healthcare system there. Despite the continued success of the Saskatchewan branch of the party, the NDP was shut out of Saskatchewan in the [Canadian federal election, 2004 for the first time in recent history. This is a trend that has been continued in the Canadian federal election, 2006. The New Democratic Party has also formed the provincial government in Manitoba, British Columbia and Ontario.

Current members of Parliament The election of January 23, 2006, gave the NDP 29 seats; it subsequently won one seat in a by-election. Twelve of its MPs are women; after the general election this represented 41% of its seats, the highest proportion of women that has ever existed in a Canadian parliamentary caucus with official party status. For a list of NDP MPs and their critic portfolios, see New Democratic Party Shadow Cabinet.

One senator, Lillian Dyck, chooses to associate herself with the NDP. However the party does not allow her to be part of the parliamentary caucus, as the NDP favours the abolition of the Canadian Senate. She sits in the Senate as an Independent New Democrat.

39th Parliament

Federal leaders {| class="wikitable"|-! #! Leader! From! To! Birth! Death! Ridings while leader|-| 1| Tommy Douglas|August 3, 1961, [1971, [1904, [1986, BC|-| 2| [David Lewis (politician)| April 24 1971, [1975, [1909, [1981, ON|-| 3| [Ed Broadbent|July 7 1975, [1989, [1936, [Oshawa (electoral district), ON|-| 4|Audrey McLaughlin|December 5 1989, [1995, [1936, YK|-| 5|[Alexa McDonough|October 14 1995, [2003, [1944, NS|-|6|[Jack Layton|January 25 [2003, [1950, ON|}

Federal election results 1962–2006 {| class="wikitable"! Election! # of candidates! # of seats won! # of total votes! % of popular vote|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1962| 217| 19| 1,044,754| 13.57%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1963| 232| 17| 1,044,701| 13.24%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1965| 255| 21| 1,381,658| 17.91%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1968| 263| 22| 1,378,263| 16.96%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1972| 252| 31| 1,725,719| 17.83%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1974| 262| 16| 1,467,748| 15.44%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1979| 282| 26| 2,048,988| 17.88%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1980| 280| 32| 2,150,368| 19.67%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1984| 282| 30| 2,359,915| 18.81%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1988| 295| 43| 2,685,263| 20.38%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1993| 294| 9| 933,688| 6.88%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 1997| 301| 21| 1,434,509| 11.05%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 2000| 298| 13| 1,093,748| 8.51%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 2004| 308| 19| 2,116,536| 15.7%|- align="center"!Canadian federal election, 2006| 308| 29| 2,588,200| 17.5%|}

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