New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party is a federal political party in Canada. On the political spectrum the NDP is further left from the Liberal Party. Since 2020 the NDP has been lead by interim leader Edward Elimin. The Provincial Wings of the party are highly integrated with the federal one.

Often having 3rd or 4th party status the NDP has never been in the federal goverment, but it has attained Official Opposition status twice once under Jack Layton in 2011 and by Gord Johns in 2019.

## History of the NDP

### 2015 election and end of Mulcair's leadership

Despite early campaign polls which showed an NDP lead, the party lost 59 seats on election night and fell back to third place in Parliament. By winning 44 seats Mulcair was able to secure the second best showing in the party's history, winning one more seat than Ed Broadbent managed in the 1988 election, but with a smaller share of the popular vote.

During the election campaign, Mulcair's stance on the niqab issue contributed to a decline in the party's support in Quebec; NDP seat gains in Saskatchewan and British Columbia were offset by numerical losses in almost every other region, while in Alberta and Manitoba the party simply held on to its existing seats without gaining or losing. The party was locked out of the Atlantic Region and the Territories, and lost over half of its seats in Ontario including all of its seats in Toronto. In Quebec the NDP lost seats to all three of the other major parties, namely the Liberals, Conservatives, and Bloc Québécois, though it managed to place second in both vote share (25.4%) and seats (16) behind the Liberals, who formed a majority government.

Mulcair's leadership faced criticism following the election, particularly due to a moderate platform that the party was running on and Mulcair's promise to balance the federal budget while Liberal leader Justin Trudeau was promising to run a budget deficit in order to fund stimulus programs and higher social spending, a position which was perceived as allowing the Liberals to outflank the NDP on the left. Mulcair lost a leadership review vote held at the NDP's policy convention in Edmonton, Alberta on April 10, 2016. Consequently, his successor was to be chosen at a leadership election to be held no later than October 2017.

### Resignation of Jagmeet Singh and 2019 Election and the death of Gord Johns

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh resigned as leader at the start of the 2019 campaign season. The NDP Hastly elected Gord Johns to be there next federal leader.

When Jagmeet Singh resigned the polls estimated that the NDP would lose official party status. But when the Deputy Liberal Leader resigned in shame after the Money Machine Scandal the NDP Rised to 86 seats while the liberals went down to 46 seats.The NDP was able to take away most of the liberal voters from them and kept gaining momentum. While the other parties leaderships were unstable the NDP's was held tight with the strong and competend leadership of Gord Johns.

Gord Johns heavikty campainged against the popular bill-21 in Quebec. This caused the party to lost many seats in Quebec due to this. Gord also heavily campaigned on Proportional Representation, Healthcare reform and increased funding for the military.

The NDP Gained 73 seats and obtained the Official Opposition in the 2019 election. This was there best election result since 2011 when they got 103 seats.

After the election Gord Johns approval ratins were over 80% in the NDP, then his planed crashed outside of Vancouver. On January 14, 2020 ISIS members hijacked gords plane and crashed it outside of the Fraser Valley. Gord Johns died on the spot. The NDP appointed highly unpopular member Edward Elimin to lead the party untill the Leadership Elections were to be held.

### 2020 NDP Leadership Elections

The 2020 NDP Leadership Elections resulted in the victory of Marshall Coffee. Edward Elimin was orignally planning on running but due to poor polling he withdrew and endorsed current deputy leader Marshall. After 3 rounds Marshall won with 63% of the vote. Following the leadership results Edward resigned as deputy NDP leader and joined the conservatives promising to reform it after Kevin O'Leary stepped down as Conservative Leader.