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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, [under discussion] with the party generally sitting to the left of the Liberal Party. [20]
In 1961, at the end of a five-day-long Founding Convention which established its principles, policies, and structures, the New Democratic Party was born and Tommy Douglas, the long-time CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, was elected its first leader. [1] In 1960, before the NDP was founded, one candidate, Walter Pitman, won a by-election under the ...
Jagmeet Singh. Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal MP (/ dʒəɡˈmiːt sɪŋ / jug-MEET SING; [3] born January 2, 1979) [4][5] is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Singh has sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South since 2019. [6] He was elected to the Legislative Assembly ...
Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative ...
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia [a] (BC NDP) is a social democratic [4] political party in British Columbia, Canada.The party sits on the centre-left [5] [6] of the political spectrum and is one of the two major parties in British Columbia; since the 1990s, its rival was the business-oriented BC United (formerly known as the BC Liberals) until the Conservative Party of British ...
www.thomasmulcair.ca. Thomas Joseph Mulcair PC (born October 24, 1954) is a retired Canadian politician who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2012 to 2017 and leader of the Official Opposition from 2012 to 2015. He was elected to the House of Commons in 2007 and sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Outremont until ...
When will state election results start being called? The AP will not call races until the final polls close in that state. While Kentucky and Indiana have some polls closing at 6 p.m. ET, time ...
The 1961 New Democratic Party founding convention was held in Ottawa from July 31 to August 4 to elect a leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada. This convention formally closed down the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party, the New Party clubs, and merged them with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) to form the NDP.