US Edition‘Painful to be where we’re at’: NDP campaign director takes responsibility for party’s worst showing
- The 2025 federal election on April 28 saw the New Democratic Party drop from 24 to seven MPs, marking its worst performance ever across Canada.
- This decline followed persistent negative polls, internal challenges, and a campaign shaped by the Trump factor and Liberal shifts to the centre-right.
- Despite losing official party status, seven remaining NDP MPs met to plan holding the Liberal minority government accountable and maintaining influence in Parliament.
- Jennifer Howard, the campaign director, took responsibility stating, "we just weren't the answer" amid a difficult night and shifting political landscape.
- Jagmeet Singh announced he will resign after an interim leader is appointed, with a leadership contest expected to reshape the party's future role in Canadian politics.
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NDP has lost touch with its core supporters, says a former MP
OTTAWA - The New Democratic Party ran a leader-focused election campaign and lost touch with core supporters who ended up backing the Conservatives, says a former member of Parliament.
In the most recent federal election, the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Green Party have accumulated a meagre 7.5% of the votes and now hold only 8 seats in the communes out of a total of 343. With two exceptions, the portrait is not necessarily more pink in the provinces. Political scientist Geneviève Tellier goes back to the sources of this shortness of breath and analyses the perspectives of the left-wing political parties in the country.
The 2025 Election – What Comes Next
The 2025 federal election was a roller-coaster ride like no other in living memory. Just a few months ago, it seemed that Pierre Poilievre was guaranteed to be the next Prime Minister. Right-wing populism had shaped the dominant political narrative that blamed the Trudeau Liberals for every aspect of pain felt by ordinary Canadians. And then Donald Trump happened, and everything changed. Uniting against Trump became the defining issue. Mark Carn…
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