What next for the NDP after party loses leader, seats and official status?
Global News
The NDP was projected to fall to a distant fourth place, with Leader Jagmeet Singh losing his riding and the party losing official status in the House of Commons.
The New Democrat Party is confronting what looks to be its worst-ever performance in Monday’s federal election, with Jagmeet Singh losing his riding, resigning his leadership and the party losing official status in the House of Commons.
Global News is projecting the Liberals will form government for the fourth time — their third minority in a row — with the Conservatives improving their seat-count from the last three elections, leaving the NDP in a distant fourth place.
“Obviously I’m disappointed that we could not win more seats,” said Singh, who told supporters at campaign headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., that he would resign as leader after an interim leader is appointed.
“But I’m not disappointed in our movement. I’m hopeful for our party … We have built the best of Canada and we are not going anywhere.”
Party insiders said the results were a blow to the left-wing party that had held the balance of power for the previous Liberal government and once held official Opposition status during the 2012 Conservative majority government.
“We were expecting a difficult night,” former NDP MP Nathan Cullen told Global News.
Yet NDP press secretary Melanie Richer said she was “surprised” by both the tighter-than-expected leads held by NDP candidates in some ridings and the losses by large margins elsewhere. She said the party “saw a path” to winning the minimum 12 seats required to hold official status, which allows parties to sit on committees and ask more questions during question period.
Richer agreed that both the spectre of U.S. President Donald Trump and the possibility of a Conservative government under Pierre Poilievre had left many New Democrats more mindful of voting for a party likely to form government, leaving the NDP out of the conversation.
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