1989 New Democratic Party leadership election

1989 New Democratic Party leadership election

← 1975 November 30 – December 3, 1989 1995 →

DB SL Candidate Audrey McLaughlin Dave Barrett Steven Langdon Fourth ballot delegate count 1,316 (55.1%) 1,072 (44.9%) Eliminated Third ballot delegate count 1,072 (44.4%) 947 (39.3%) 393 (16.3%) Second ballot delegate count 829 (34.3%) 780 (32.3%) 519 (21.5%) First ballot delegate count 646 (26.9%) 566 (23.6%) 351 (14.6%)   SDJ HM IW Candidate Simon De Jong Howard McCurdy Ian Waddell Fourth ballot delegate count Eliminated Withdrew Withdrew Third ballot delegate count Eliminated Withdrew Withdrew Second ballot delegate count 289 (12.0%) Withdrew Withdrew First ballot delegate count 315 (13.1%) 256 (10.7%) 213 (8.9%)   RL Candidate Roger Lagasse Fourth ballot delegate count Eliminated Third ballot delegate count Eliminated Second ballot delegate count Eliminated First ballot delegate count 53 (2.2%)

Leader before election Ed Broadbent Elected Leader Audrey McLaughlin

The 1989 New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from November 30 to December 3 to elect a leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Ed Broadbent retired as federal leader, and Audrey McLaughlin was elected as his replacement. McLaughlin's victory was the first time a woman won the leadership of a major federal Canadian political party. This convention was followed by six years of decline for the party, culminating in the worst electoral performance of a 20th-century federal democratic socialist party, when the party received only seven percent of the popular vote in the 1993 federal election.^[1]