New Democratic Party
Election Leader Seats +/- Votes % Rank Status/Gov
1962 Tommy Douglas 19 / 265 11 1,044,754 13.57 4th Fourth party
1963 Tommy Douglas 17 / 265 2 1,044,701 13.22 4th Fourth party
1965 Tommy Douglas 21 / 265 4 1,381,658 17.91 3rd Third party
1968 Tommy Douglas 22 / 264 1 1,378,263 16.96 3rd Third party
1972 David Lewis 31 / 264 9 1,725,719 17.83 3rd Third party
1974 David Lewis 16 / 264 15 1,467,748 15.44 3rd Third party
1979 Ed Broadbent 26 / 282 10 2,048,988 17.88 3rd Third party
1980 Ed Broadbent 32 / 282 6 2,165,087 19.77 3rd Third party
1984 Ed Broadbent 30 / 282 2 2,359,915 18.81 3rd Third party
1988 Ed Broadbent 43 / 295 13 2,685,263 20.38 3rd Third party
1993 Audrey McLaughlin 9 / 295 34 939,575 6.88 4th No status
1997 Alexa McDonough 21 / 301 12 1,434,509 11.05 4th Fourth party
2000 Alexa McDonough 13 / 301 8 1,093,748 8.51 4th Fourth party
2004 Jack Layton 19 / 308 6 2,127,403 15.68 4th Fourth party
2006 Jack Layton 29 / 308 10 2,589,597 17.48 4th Fourth party
2008 Jack Layton 37 / 308 8 2,515,288 18.18 4th Fourth party
2011 Jack Layton 103 / 308 66 4,508,474 30.63 2nd Official Opposition
2015 Tom Mulcair 44 / 338 59 3,441,409 19.71 3rd Third party
2019 Jagmeet Singh 24 / 338 20 2,903,722 15.98 4th Fourth party
Election results
The New Democratic Party (NDP; French: Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a social-democratic federal political party in Canada. The party was founded in 1961 out of the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). On the Canadian political spectrum, the party sits to the left of the Liberal Party. Since 2017, the NDP has been led by Jagmeet Singh, who is the first Indo-Canadian to lead a major federal party in Canada. 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). Often the third- or fourth-largest party in Canada's House of Commons, the NDP has never been in power at the federal level, but it has attained second-largest party status once. In the 2011 election under the leadership of Jack Layton, the NDP won the second most seats in the House, gaining the position of Official Opposition for the first time in the party's history. The NDP subsequently lost 59 seats in the 2015 federal election and fell to third place in Parliament, though it was their second-best seat count to date. Following the 2019 election, the NDP held the balance of power as the Liberals won a minority government, although the party lost 15 seats and fell to fourth place behind the Bloc Québécois.