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The New Democratic Party (NDP; French: Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a federal political party in Canada.Widely described as social democratic, [5] the party sits at the centre-left [10] to left-wing [17] of the Canadian political spectrum, with the party generally sitting to the left of the Liberal Party. [20]
President of the New Democratic Party (2023–present) President of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour (2013–2022) NDP candidate for St. John's East in the 2021 federal election NDP candidate for Gander—Grand Falls in the 1997 federal election: St. John's
Unlike other federal political systems, Canadian political parties at the federal level are often loosely or not at all connected to parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names and policy positions. [1] One exception is the New Democratic Party, which is organizationally integrated with most of its provincial counterparts.
Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal [a] MP (born January 2, 1979) is a Canadian politician who is the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Singh has sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South since 2019. [4]
The Yukon New Democratic Party holds 3 of the 19 seats in the Yukon Legislative Assembly, forming the third party and are currently holding the balance of power in a confidence and supply agreement with the government. Kate White, party leader and Leader of the third party; Annie Blake; Lane Tredger
Prior to 1903, there was no strong party discipline in the province, and governments rarely lasted more than two years as independent-minded members changed allegiances. MLAs were elected under a myriad of party labels many as Independents, and no one party held strong majorities. The first party government, in 1903, was Conservative.
Nobody at the convention represented party unity as explicitly as Peter MacKay, a center-right former Progressive Conservative leader who teamed up with Harper's right-wing Canadian Alliance party ...
The New Democratic Party's Statement of Principles was adopted in 1983 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the 12th Federal NDP Convention. It replaced the Winnipeg Declaration , which had in turn replaced the original Regina Manifesto of 1933 of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) (the predecessor to the NDP).