British Columbia New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan says she’s been here before.
In 2001, Kwan was a member of the B.C. legislature when the Liberals decimated the provincial NDP government, winning 77 of 79 seats.
Kwan was one of only two New Democrats who kept their seats.
“I’m not a stranger to this environment,” Kwan said from her office in Vancouver. “We came back stronger.”
OTTAWA—Former NDP MP Charlie Angus says the party ran an “absolutely disastrous campaign” that “missed the moment” and focused too much on leader Jagmeet Singh, as more New Democrats leave the door open to leadership bids.
The scathing assessment — from a prominent New Democrat who placed second in the 2017 leadership race that catapulted Singh to the party’s top job — came as the NDP caucus was set to meet Thursday to discuss its next steps following the party’s worst-ever election result.
The New Democratic Party’s devastating electoral losses do not translate to a death knell for the party but are an important signal that some significant structural changes are needed, analysts say.
“I don’t believe the claims that this is it for the NDP,” said Andrea Lawlor, an associate professor of political science at McMaster University.
“But for them it is the type of organizational crisis that is going to require a lot of attention and soul-searching in order to get back on a footing where they are viewed by Canadians as a really fundamental third option.”
TORONTO — Before NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh even arrived, some people were thinking about his exit.
Several dozen NDP supporters gathered in a park on Thursday, waiting for Singh to arrive in what will be one of his last campaign stops in Toronto.
In the heart of Canada’s largest city, voters here elect progressives.
But the group standing around tonight knows that on Monday, voters will not be choosing NDP.
Facing a possible collapse of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh insists he has no regrets.
The NDP leader stood by his decision not to plunge the country into an early election last fall while support for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals plummeted, telling the Star’s editorial board he “couldn’t stomach” the idea of causing Pierre Poilievre’s seizure of power, and that he made the choice to put Canada’s interests ahead of those of the New Democratic Party.
I hope he loses his seat.
Appropriately in future years Canadians might only recall Jagmeet Singh’s tenure as NDP head honcho, while waiting with nervous trepidation for a root canal.
Yes, getting the Liberals to throw Singh that small bone of agreeing to provide almost free dental care for a narrow subset of Canucks — something we couldn’t afford as a nation, of course — was the sum total of his pay-off for keeping the Justin Trudeau regime in power, way past its best-before date.
OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh took a deep breath.
Hours before, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister and Singh’s former governing ally, had rocked the country by announcing his intention to resign.
With a crucial election now on the horizon, it was the NDP’s last chance to distance itself from Trudeau’s unpopularity and its association with the Liberal government — and position itself for success in the coming race.
“Justin Trudeau’s Liberals,” he started in a forceful voice before pausing, “have let down Canadians.”
He wanted that pension so badly he destroyed his own party by supporting the Liberals.
The dynamics of this election campaign have been nothing if not unusual. Consider, for example, that the Liberals’ remarkable ascent has had very little to do with the flagging fortunes of their Conservative rivals — and plenty to do with the near-collapse of the NDP and Bloc Québécois.
Support for the independantistes has declined almost exclusively due to threats from U.S. President Donald Trump toward Canada’s economy and sovereignty. What the Bloc offers Quebec — namely, the protection of its cultural and linguistic rights — is simply not much in demand right now. Among Quebecers, a surprising increase in Canadian nationalism and a growing sense of common cause with the rest of the country have made the Bloc all but irrelevant.
Singh’s support of Trudeau sealed his fate.
Why some voters are sticking with Singh and the NDP and why others are voting Liberal despite being open to voting NDP.
Something significant has happened to the NDP vote in this federal election. A party that, for much of the past two years, consistently held between 18% and 20% support now finds itself with just 9% of the committed vote, according to our latest Abacus Data survey conducted from April 7 to 10, 2025. That’s a collapse—one of the most dramatic shifts we’ve seen in this campaign. The last time support for the NDP was this low was way back in the 1990s.
MONTREAL — There is an air of resignation, if not acceptance, about Jagmeet Singh these days.
He seems to know that his time in federal politics is coming to an end.
As he came down the steps of his campaign plane for the cameras, after landing in Montreal on Monday, he cut a dejected figure. I said to him that Justin Trudeau would have waved at the non-existent crowd. He laughed it off.
A volunteer-based political organization is accusing the New Democratic Party (NDP) of coordinating a harassment campaign against them.
At the same time, a group of digital influencers previously working with the party have cut ties, citing mistreatment of fellow content creators and internal dysfunction. One NDP candidate described the party to The Rover as being in “absolute turmoil.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is making a plea to Canadians today to give his party an influential role in Parliament and not reward either the Conservatives or Liberals with a majority government where they hold all the power.
“Ottawa works best when there’s someone there to hold the powerful to account,” Singh said Friday at the Broadbent Institute’s annual conference.
The institute is a social democratic think tank formed by former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent and its annual Progress Summit is falling this year in the third week of the federal election campaign.
A new poll shows Jagmeet Singh losing his seat by MASSIVE margins to the Conservatives
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— Chase Zaba (@ChaseZaba) April 11, 2025
Under Jagmeet Singh , Canada’s New Democratic Party has successes its leftist supporters can be proud of.
A national dental care program, pharmacare and anti-replacement-worker legislation are all in line with the party’s social democratic vision of governance.
But they came about in a curious way, as the NDP’s policy reward in a tit-for-tat arrangement that kept the governing Liberal party in power well past the end of its popular support.
He was only ever interested in his pension.
With polls showing his party mired in third place in the federal election campaign, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday he has no regrets about how he handled his party’s governance deal with the Liberals.
With the data all pointing toward a two-horse race, Singh said his party’s accomplishments through the supply and confidence agreement with former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government should convince more people to support the NDP.
Venal is as venal does.
The bus is orange. The seats are carpeted. And the battle cry for the partisans on board is borrowed from the late Jack Layton: “Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.”
Layton led the NDP to its best-ever election result in 2011, when the party won 100 seats and, for the first and only time, became the official opposition.
Jagmeet Singh, by contrast, is fighting to keep official party status.
