This article is about the federal political party in Canada. For other political parties with the same name, see New Democratic Party (disambiguation). For the centrist ideological faction in the Democratic Party in the United States, see New Democrats (United States).
New Democratic Party
Nouveau Parti démocratique
Abbreviation
NDP (English) NPD (French)
Leader
Jagmeet Singh
President
Mary Shortall
National director
Lucy Watson[1]
Deputy leader
Alexandre Boulerice
House leader
Peter Julian
Founded
August 3, 1961 (62 years ago) (1961-08-03)[2]
Preceded by
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
New Party
Canadian Labour Congress
Headquarters
Ottawa, Ontario
Youth wing
Canada's Young New Democrats
Membership (2017)
124,620[3][needs update]
Ideology
Social democracy
Faction:
Democratic socialism
Political position
Centre-left
Faction:
Left-wing
International affiliation
Progressive Alliance[4]
Union affiliate
Canadian Labour Congress
Colours
Orange
Senate
0 / 105
House of Commons
24 / 338
Website
ndp.ca
Politics of Canada
Political parties
Elections
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 occupies the centre-left[6][7][8][9] of the political spectrum, with the party generally sitting to the left of the Liberal Party.[10][11][12][13] The party was founded in 1961 by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC).[14]
The federal and provincial (or territorial) level NDPs are more integrated than other political parties in Canada, and have shared membership (except for the New Democratic Party of Quebec).[15] The NDP has never won the largest share of seats at the federal level and thus has never formed government. From 2011 to 2015, it formed the Official Opposition; apart from this, it has been the third or fourth-largest party in the House of Commons. However, the party has held the balance of power, and with it considerable influence, during periods of Liberal minority governments. Sub-national branches of the NDP have formed the government in six provinces (Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia) and the territory of Yukon.
The NDP supports a mixed economy, broader welfare, LGBT rights, international peace, environmental stewardship, and expanding Canada's universal healthcare system to include dental care, mental health care, eye and hearing care, infertility procedures, and prescription drugs.
Since 2017, the NDP has been led by Jagmeet Singh, who is the first visible minority to lead a major federal party in Canada on a permanent basis. Following the 2021 Canadian federal election, it is the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons, with 24 seats.
^Neville, William (August 3, 1961). "Douglas Leads New Party, 'Democratic' Tag in Name". The Vancouver Sun. Vancouver. UPI. p. 1. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^Éric Grenier (August 29, 2017). "NDP triples its membership to 124,000 in run-up to party's leadership vote". Cbc.ca. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
^"Parties & Organisations of the Progressive Alliance". progressive-alliance.info. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
^The party is widely described as social democratic:
Bryan Evans; Ingo Schmidt (2012). Social Democracy After the Cold War. Athabasca University Press. ISBN 978-1-926836-87-4.
Melody Hessing; Michael Howlett; Tracy Summerville (2005). Canadian Natural Resource And Environmental Policy: Political Economy And Public Policy. UBC Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7748-1181-1.
Rand Dyck (2011). Canadian Politics. Cengage Learning. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-17-650343-7.
Norman Penner (1992). From Protest to Power: Social Democracy in Canada 1900–Present. James Lorimer & Company. ISBN 978-1-55028-384-6.
John M. Herrick; Paul H. Stuart (2004). Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. SAGE. p. 337. ISBN 978-0-7619-2584-2.
John Herd Thompson; Stephen J. Randall (2002). Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies. University of Georgia Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-8203-2403-6.
Ian McLeod (1994). Under Siege: The Federal Ndp in the Nineties. James Lorimer & Company. ISBN 978-1-55028-454-6.
Keith Archer (1990). Political Choices and Electoral Consequences: A Study of Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party. McGill-Queens. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-7735-0744-9.
Richard Collin; Pamela L. Martin (2012). An Introduction to World Politics: Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-4422-1803-1. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
William Cross (September 2012). "The Canadian New Democratic Party: A New Big Player in Canadian Politics?" (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
Jessica Murphy (September 26, 2017). "Who will Canada's New Democrats pick to take on Trudeau?". BBC News. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
Gerard Di Trolio (June 4, 2018). "The NDP Claws Its Way Back". Jacobin. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
^David McGrane (2018). "Electoral competition in Canada among the centre-left parties: liberal versus social democrats". In Rob Manwaring; Paul Kennedy (eds.). Why the Left Loses: The Decline of the Centre-Left in Comparative Perspective. Policy Press. pp. 39–52. ISBN 978-1-4473-3266-4.
^"Canada's New Democrats elect Jagmeet Singh as party leader". BBC News. October 2, 2017. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
^How Canada's politics are different to Australia's. ABC. Author – Annabelle Quince. Published 16 October 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^Death of Jack Layton Weakens Canada's Political Opposition. The New York Times. Author – Ian Austen. Published August 22, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2019
^Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (2013). Gendered News: Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada. UBC Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7748-2625-9.
^Andrea Olive (2015). The Canadian Environment in Political Context. University of Toronto Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4426-0871-9.
^David Martin Thomas; David Biette (2014). Canada and the United States: Differences that Count, Fourth Edition. University of Toronto Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-1-4426-0908-2.
^Rodney P. Carlisle (2005). Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right. SAGE Publications. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-4522-6531-5.
^Pamela Behan (2012). Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded and Why the United States Has Not. SUNY Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-0-791-48135-6.
^Marc Guinjoan (2014). Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests: Competition and Contamination Effects. Ashgate. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-4724-3910-9.
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