New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party Nouveau Parti démocratique
Abbreviation	English: NDP French: NPD
Leader	Jagmeet Singh
President	Mathieu Vick
National Director	Melissa Bruno
Deputy Leader	Alexandre Boulerice Sheri Benson
Founded	3 August 1961 (63 years ago) (1961-08-03)[1]
Preceded by	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation New Party
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario
Youth wing	New Democratic Youth of Canada
Membership	124,620 (2017)[2]
Ideology	Social democracy[3][4][5] Democratic socialism
Political position	Centre-left[6][7][8][9] to left-wing[10]
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance[11]
Colours	Orange
Seats in the Senate	0 / 105
Seats in the House of Commons	24 / 338
Website
English language: www.ndp.ca French language: www.npd.ca
Political parties

The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a social democratic political party in Canada. It was formed in 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation merged with the Canadian Labour Congress. In Canadian politics, the NDP is to the left of the Liberal Party.

Wings of the NDP have formed governments in several provinces. It forms the current government in British Columbia. In the 2011 federal elections it won 98 out of 308 seats in the House of Commons.^[12]

The current party leader is Jagmeet Singh. He became the leader in October 2017.

1. ↑ Neville, William (3 August 1961). "Douglas Leads New Party, 'Democratic' Tag in Name". The Vancouver Sun. Vancouver. UPI. p. 1. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
2. ↑ Éric Grenier (29 August 2017). "NDP triples its membership to 124,000 in run-up to party's leadership vote". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
3. ↑ William Cross (September 2012). "The Canadian New Democratic Party: A New Big Player in Canadian Politics?" (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
4. ↑ Jessica Murphy (26 September 2017). "Who will Canada's New Democrats pick to take on Trudeau?". BBC News. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
5. ↑ Gerard Di Trolio (4 June 2018). "The NDP Claws Its Way Back". Jacobin. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ "Canada's New Democrats elect Jagmeet Singh as party leader". BBC News. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
8. ↑ How Canada's politics are different to Australia's. ABC. Author - Annabelle Quince. Published 16 October 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
9. ↑ Death of Jack Layton Weakens Canada’s Political Opposition. The New York Times. Author - Ian Austen. Published 22 August 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2019
10. ↑ Andrea Olive (2015). The Canadian Environment in Political Context. University of Toronto Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4426-0871-9.
11. ↑ "Parties & Organisations of the Progressive Alliance". progressive-alliance.info. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
12. ↑ "Calgary NDP's celebrate official opposition". 3 May 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2011.