The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social democracy political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is the provincial arm of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Unlike other parties in Canada, where provincial and federal politics are strictly separated and members of one are not necessarily members of the other, NDP members are members of both the federal party and the provincial party. The party was formed in 1933 as the British Columbia section of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada (BC), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations. In August 1933, the latter two organizations merged to become the Associated CCF Clubs. A further merger with the SPC (BC) took place in 1935. In 1960, the name was changed nationally to the New Party, then in 1961 to New Democratic Party. This two party system was challenged with the rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in western Canada in the 1940s, and its successor the New Democratic Party (NDP). The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier Tommy Douglas, and made major inroads in British Columbia. In order to block the rise of the socialist CCF, the British Columbia Liberal Party and British Columbia Conservative Party formed a coalition government after the British Columbia general election, 1941 when neither party had enough seats to form a majority government on its own. Tensions arose in the coalition due to the dominance of Liberals, and the coalition finally collapsed in 1951 when the Conservatives refounded themselves as an independent party. In order to prevent the British Columbia CCF from winning in a three party competition, the government introduced the Alternative Vote with the expectation that Conservative voters would list the Liberals as their second choice and vice versa. Unexpectedly, the British Columbia Social Credit Party, under its new leader W.A.C. Bennett, was able to exploit this system, and emerged as the largest party when the ballots were counted in the British Columbia general election, 1952. Voters were tired of both the Liberals and the Tories and were looking for alternatives. With the CCF having only one seat less than Social Credit, and both the Liberals and Tories having only a handful of seats, it was Social Credit that emerged as the new party of choice for business and voters who wanted to keep the CCF out of power. In the British Columbia general election, 1953, Bennett won a majority government, and both the Liberal and the Conservative parties were reduced to fringe parties. The Socreds' electoral coalition was able to keep the CCF and the NDP out of power until the 1970s, when the tired, stagnating Bennett government was defeated. The NDP first won British Columbia general election, 1972 under Dave Barrett, who served as Premier for three years. The NDP passed a great deal of modernizing legislation in a very short period of time - virtually a revolution in BC provincial goverance. Among lasting changes were the Insurance Corporation of BC, the Agricultural Land Reserve, and such additions such as Hansard and Question Period to the legislature. The NDP drove the small BC Liberal caucus to abandon their leader David Anderson for the Social Credit Party, as did one of the two Tories elected in 1972. The NDP introduced capital taxes, slashed funding to universities, but suffered the most for bringing clarity to the accounting Social Credit had used, and showed that BC was significantly in debt. In British Columbia general election, 1975 when Social Credit, under W.A.C's son William R. Bennett, won a snap election called by Barrett. The Barrett government had initiated a number of reforms in the areas of labour relations, the public service and social programs, most of which endured through to the restraint budget of 1983. The NDP peaked in popular support in the British Columbia general election, 1979 with 46% of the vote. (Since then its support has hovered around or slightly above 40% with the exception of a disastrous showing in 2001.) It took the complete meltdown of the Social Credit Party for the NDP next to take power in British Columbia election,1991 under Michael Harcourt. The NDP governed the province for the next ten years with a succession of leaders at the helm. Today, the main opponents of the BC NDP are the governing British Columbia Liberal Party and the Green Party of British Columbia. The BC Green Party challenges the NDP especially for the votes of ecologists and environmentally concerned citizens, but lies mainly to the right of the NDP. Although no Green Party candidate has ever been elected to the provincial legislature, the Greens campaign on issues that also appeal to prospective NDP voters, and are generally perceived to "steal" votes from the NDP, occasionally allowing the victory of a third candidate in the first-past-the-post system. Despite serving as the government throughout the 1990s, the NDP was plagued by a series of leadership scandals that forced the resignations of premiers Harcourt in 1996 and Glen Clark in 1999. One of the many blunders the NDP government embarked on was the construction of the PacifiCats, which would later become part of the FastCat Fiasco. In the May, British Columbia election, 2001, the New Democrats only won two seats of the 79 in the Legislative Assembly despite have polled 21% of the electorate, and were therefore reduced below official party status. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell refused to grant this status to the NDP itself. Taken together, the support for these parties is significant, giving rise to calls for electoral reform in the province of BC. The NDP also faced a number of internal party divisions in the 1990s. Following Clark's resignation as Premier, the party became polarized between moderate center-left figures such as Ujjal Dosanjh and Joy McPhail, and more traditional democratic socialists such as Dan Miller and Corky Evans. These differences have become less important since the party lost power in 2001. Carole James was elected leader of the NDP in 2003. NDP candidate Jagrup Brar won a by-election in the riding of Surrey-Panorama Ridge in October 2004, bringing the party's seat total to 3. [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/29/ndp_bc041029.html] In the provincial election of British_Columbia_general_election, 2005 the NDP regained party status and are currently credited with winning 33 of 79 seats, although recounts are pending on two seats as of late May 2005. ===Leaders=== *Robert Connell (1933–1937) *Harold Winch (1941–1953) *Robert Strachan (1953 – April 12, 1969) *Thomas Berger (Canadian politician) (April 12, 1969 – late 1969) *Dave Barrett (late 1969 – May 20, 1984) *Bob Skelly (May 20, 1984 – April 12, 1987) *Michael Harcourt (April 12, 1987 – February 18, 1996) *Glen Clark (February 18, 1996 – 1999) *Dan Miller (1999 – February 20, 2000) ''acting'' *Ujjal Dosanjh (February 20, 2000 – June 16 2001) *Joy McPhail (June 16 2001 – November 23, 2003) ''interim'' *Carole James (since November 23, 2003) For further information, see British Columbia New Democratic Party Leadership Conventions. ==Election results== {| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" |- bgcolor="darkgray" !rowspan="2"|Election !rowspan="2"|Party Leader !rowspan="2"|# of candidates !colspan="3"|Seats !colspan="3"|Popular Vote !colspan="3"|Final round |- bgcolor="darkgray" |align="center"|Previous |align="center"|After |align="center"|% Change |align="center"|# |align="center"|% |align="center"|Change |colspan="2"|(1952-53 only) |- |colspan="9"|Cooperative Commonwealth Federation |- !|British Columbia general election, 1933 |align="center"|Robert Connell |align="right"|46 |align="right"| n.a. |align="right"|7 |align="right"| n.a. |align="right"|120,185 |align="right"| 31.53% |align="right"| n.a. |- !|British Columbia general election, 1937 |align="center"|Robert Connell |align="right"|46 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|7 |align="right"| - |align="right"|119,400 |align="right"| 28.57% |align="right"| -2.96% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1941 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|45 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|14 |align="right"| +100% |align="right"|151,440 |align="right"| 33.36% |align="right"| +4.79% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1945 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|48 |align="right"|14 |align="right"|10 |align="right"| -28.6% |align="right"|175,960 |align="right"| 37.62% |align="right"| +4.26% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1949 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|48 |align="right"|10 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|-30.0% |align="right"|245,284 |align="right"| 35.10% |align="right"| -2.52% |align="center"|Votes |align="center"|% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1952 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|48 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|18 |align="right"| +157.1% |align="right"|236,562 |align="right"| 30.78% |align="right"| -4.32% |align="right"|231,756 |align="right"|34.3% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1953 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|47 |align="right"|18 |align="right"|14 |align="right"| -22.2% |align="right"|224,513 |align="right"| 30.85% |align="right"| +0.07% |align="right"|194,414 |align="right"|29.48% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1956 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|51 |align="right"|14 |align="right"|10 |align="right"| -28.6% |align="right"|231,511 |align="right"| 28.32% |align="right"| -2.53% |- !British Columbia general election, 1960 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|52 |align="right"|10 |align="right"|16 |align="right"| +60.0% |align="right"|326,094 |align="right"| 32.73% |align="right"| +4.41% |- |colspan="9"|New Democratic Party |- !British Columbia general election, 1963 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|52 |align="right"|16 |align="right"|14 |align="right"| -12.5% |align="right"|269,004 |align="right"| 27.80% |align="right"|-4.93% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1966 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|55 |align="right"|14 |align="right"|16 |align="right"| +14.3% |align="right"|252,753 |align="right"|33.62% |align="right"|+5.82% |- !British Columbia general election, 1969 |align="center"|Thomas Berger (Canadian politician) |align="right"|55 |align="right"|16 |align="right"|12 |align="right"| -25.0% |align="right"|331,813 |align="right"|33.92% |align="right"| +0.30% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1972 |align="center"|David Barrett |align="right"|55 |align="right"|12 |align="right"|38 |align="right"| +217% |align="right"|448,260 |align="right"|39.59% |align="right"| +5.67% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1975 |align="center"|David Barrett |align="right"|55 |align="right"|38 |align="right"|18 |align="right"| -52.6% |align="right"|505,396 |align="right"| 39.16% |align="right"| -0.43% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1979 |align="center"| David Barrett |align="right"|57 |align="right"|18 |align="right"|26 |align="right"| 44.4% |align="right"|646,188 |align="right"| 45.99% |align="right"| +6.83% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1983 |align="center"|David Barrett |align="right"|57 |align="right"|26 |align="right"|22 |align="right"|-15.4% |align="right"|741,354 |align="right"| 44.94% |align="right"|-1.05% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1986 |align="center"|Robert Skelly |align="right"|69 |align="right"|22 |align="right"|22 |align="right"| - |align="right"|824,544 |align="right"| 42.60% |align="right"| -2.34% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1991 |align="center"|Michael Harcourt |align="right"|75 |align="right"|22 |align="right"|51 |align="right"| +131.8% |align="right"| 595,391 |align="right"| 40.71% |align="right"| -1.89% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1996 |align="center"|Glen Clark |align="right"| 75 |align="right"| 51 |align="right"| 39 |align="right"| -23.53% |align="right"| 624,395 |align="right"|39.45% |align="right"| -1.26% |- !|British Columbia general election, 2001 |align="center"| Ujjal Dosanjh |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 39 |align="right"| 2 |align="right"| -94.9% |align="right"| 343,156 |align="right"| 21.56% |align="right"| -17.89% |- !|British Columbia general election, 2005 |align="center"| Carole James |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 2 |align="right"| 33 |align="right"| +1,550% |align="right"| 694,978 |align="right"| 41.43% |align="right"| +19.87% |- |} ==See also== *British Columbia New Democratic Party Leadership Conventions *List of British Columbia premiers *List of British Columbia general elections *List of Canadian political parties ==External links== *[http://www.bc.ndp.ca/ BC NDP site] British Columbia British Columbia political parties New Democratic Party of Canada
Is it safer to go by what a political party says it is instead of what it does? As a political scientist, I would be remiss if I chose to describe a political party by what it claims to be in its constitution. A far more interesting line of analysis would be to compare its actions with its claims. The current NDP, taken by its actions and policies, is clearly a social democratic party like Blair's Labour, not a democratic socialist party. But those are facts outside the agenda of those who insist on characterise the NDP in a manner that suits them. I strongly argue that democratic socialist be removed from a description of what the NDP is and moved to a discussion of what it claims. What it claims should certainly not be the lead for this article. Eh? Democratic Socialist? THE BC NDP is centrist enough that social democratic would also be giving them too much credit/blame. Well we can have the debate if you want... but the constitution of the BC NDP clearly states the words democratic socialist four times in the preamble alone. "The New Democratic Party is proud to be associated with the democratic socialist parties of the world and to share in the sturggle for peace, international co-operation and the abolition of poverty" & " The New Democratic Party believes that social, economic and political progress in Canada can only be assured by the application of democratic socialist principles to government and the administration of public affairs." The NDP calls itself a democratic socialist party we may as well call them that here as well. ==Democratic socialist again== As he has done so often in the past, Michaelm has changed an article without providing any evidence for his change. Evidence for the revert is provided above. User:Ground Zero 13:56, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Request for information== (I'm putting this on the main BC NDP page, as I doubt many people have the leadership conventions page on their watchlists yet.) I haven't been able to locate the first ballot results for the BC NDP's leadership convention held on November 23, 2003 (and won by Carole James). Queen's University stopped receiving the ''Vancouver Sun'' a few years ago, and the information doesn't seem to be available on-line. The national newspapers only covered the result of the second ballot (well ... the ''National Post'' didn't cover the story at all, but that's another matter).Does anyone have the results?
''Never mind, we have them now. But we still need this:''
For that matter, would anyone have the results of the first four ballots from the May 20, 1984 convention? We *do* have the Sun reels for that period, but the Monday issue which covered the convention is missing.
Thanks in advance for anyone willing to do a bit of research,
User:CJCurrie 02:27, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
== POV problems? ==
There's a few places where it would seem that POV and opinion have taken over...example: "The Socred's electoral coalition was able to keep the CCF and the NDP out of power until the 1970s, when the tired, stagnating Bennett government was defeated."
User:Kickstart70 23:25, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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New Democratic Party of British Columbia
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social democracy political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is the provincial arm of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Unlike other parties in Canada, where provincial and federal politics are strictly separated and members of one are not necessarily members of the other, NDP members are members of both the federal party and the provincial party. The party was formed in 1933 as the British Columbia section of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada (BC), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations. In August 1933, the latter two organizations merged to become the Associated CCF Clubs. A further merger with the SPC (BC) took place in 1935. In 1960, the name was changed nationally to the New Party, then in 1961 to New Democratic Party. This two party system was challenged with the rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in western Canada in the 1940s, and its successor the New Democratic Party (NDP). The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier Tommy Douglas, and made major inroads in British Columbia. In order to block the rise of the socialist CCF, the British Columbia Liberal Party and British Columbia Conservative Party formed a coalition government after the British Columbia general election, 1941 when neither party had enough seats to form a majority government on its own. Tensions arose in the coalition due to the dominance of Liberals, and the coalition finally collapsed in 1951 when the Conservatives refounded themselves as an independent party. In order to prevent the British Columbia CCF from winning in a three party competition, the government introduced the Alternative Vote with the expectation that Conservative voters would list the Liberals as their second choice and vice versa. Unexpectedly, the British Columbia Social Credit Party, under its new leader W.A.C. Bennett, was able to exploit this system, and emerged as the largest party when the ballots were counted in the British Columbia general election, 1952. Voters were tired of both the Liberals and the Tories and were looking for alternatives. With the CCF having only one seat less than Social Credit, and both the Liberals and Tories having only a handful of seats, it was Social Credit that emerged as the new party of choice for business and voters who wanted to keep the CCF out of power. In the British Columbia general election, 1953, Bennett won a majority government, and both the Liberal and the Conservative parties were reduced to fringe parties. The Socreds' electoral coalition was able to keep the CCF and the NDP out of power until the 1970s, when the tired, stagnating Bennett government was defeated. The NDP first won British Columbia general election, 1972 under Dave Barrett, who served as Premier for three years. The NDP passed a great deal of modernizing legislation in a very short period of time - virtually a revolution in BC provincial goverance. Among lasting changes were the Insurance Corporation of BC, the Agricultural Land Reserve, and such additions such as Hansard and Question Period to the legislature. The NDP drove the small BC Liberal caucus to abandon their leader David Anderson for the Social Credit Party, as did one of the two Tories elected in 1972. The NDP introduced capital taxes, slashed funding to universities, but suffered the most for bringing clarity to the accounting Social Credit had used, and showed that BC was significantly in debt. In British Columbia general election, 1975 when Social Credit, under W.A.C's son William R. Bennett, won a snap election called by Barrett. The Barrett government had initiated a number of reforms in the areas of labour relations, the public service and social programs, most of which endured through to the restraint budget of 1983. The NDP peaked in popular support in the British Columbia general election, 1979 with 46% of the vote. (Since then its support has hovered around or slightly above 40% with the exception of a disastrous showing in 2001.) It took the complete meltdown of the Social Credit Party for the NDP next to take power in British Columbia election,1991 under Michael Harcourt. The NDP governed the province for the next ten years with a succession of leaders at the helm. Today, the main opponents of the BC NDP are the governing British Columbia Liberal Party and the Green Party of British Columbia. The BC Green Party challenges the NDP especially for the votes of ecologists and environmentally concerned citizens, but lies mainly to the right of the NDP. Although no Green Party candidate has ever been elected to the provincial legislature, the Greens campaign on issues that also appeal to prospective NDP voters, and are generally perceived to "steal" votes from the NDP, occasionally allowing the victory of a third candidate in the first-past-the-post system. Despite serving as the government throughout the 1990s, the NDP was plagued by a series of leadership scandals that forced the resignations of premiers Harcourt in 1996 and Glen Clark in 1999. One of the many blunders the NDP government embarked on was the construction of the PacifiCats, which would later become part of the FastCat Fiasco. In the May, British Columbia election, 2001, the New Democrats only won two seats of the 79 in the Legislative Assembly despite have polled 21% of the electorate, and were therefore reduced below official party status. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell refused to grant this status to the NDP itself. Taken together, the support for these parties is significant, giving rise to calls for electoral reform in the province of BC. The NDP also faced a number of internal party divisions in the 1990s. Following Clark's resignation as Premier, the party became polarized between moderate center-left figures such as Ujjal Dosanjh and Joy McPhail, and more traditional democratic socialists such as Dan Miller and Corky Evans. These differences have become less important since the party lost power in 2001. Carole James was elected leader of the NDP in 2003. NDP candidate Jagrup Brar won a by-election in the riding of Surrey-Panorama Ridge in October 2004, bringing the party's seat total to 3. [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/29/ndp_bc041029.html] In the provincial election of British_Columbia_general_election, 2005 the NDP regained party status and are currently credited with winning 33 of 79 seats, although recounts are pending on two seats as of late May 2005. ===Leaders=== *Robert Connell (1933–1937) *Harold Winch (1941–1953) *Robert Strachan (1953 – April 12, 1969) *Thomas Berger (Canadian politician) (April 12, 1969 – late 1969) *Dave Barrett (late 1969 – May 20, 1984) *Bob Skelly (May 20, 1984 – April 12, 1987) *Michael Harcourt (April 12, 1987 – February 18, 1996) *Glen Clark (February 18, 1996 – 1999) *Dan Miller (1999 – February 20, 2000) ''acting'' *Ujjal Dosanjh (February 20, 2000 – June 16 2001) *Joy McPhail (June 16 2001 – November 23, 2003) ''interim'' *Carole James (since November 23, 2003) For further information, see British Columbia New Democratic Party Leadership Conventions. ==Election results== {| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" |- bgcolor="darkgray" !rowspan="2"|Election !rowspan="2"|Party Leader !rowspan="2"|# of candidates !colspan="3"|Seats !colspan="3"|Popular Vote !colspan="3"|Final round |- bgcolor="darkgray" |align="center"|Previous |align="center"|After |align="center"|% Change |align="center"|# |align="center"|% |align="center"|Change |colspan="2"|(1952-53 only) |- |colspan="9"|Cooperative Commonwealth Federation |- !|British Columbia general election, 1933 |align="center"|Robert Connell |align="right"|46 |align="right"| n.a. |align="right"|7 |align="right"| n.a. |align="right"|120,185 |align="right"| 31.53% |align="right"| n.a. |- !|British Columbia general election, 1937 |align="center"|Robert Connell |align="right"|46 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|7 |align="right"| - |align="right"|119,400 |align="right"| 28.57% |align="right"| -2.96% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1941 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|45 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|14 |align="right"| +100% |align="right"|151,440 |align="right"| 33.36% |align="right"| +4.79% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1945 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|48 |align="right"|14 |align="right"|10 |align="right"| -28.6% |align="right"|175,960 |align="right"| 37.62% |align="right"| +4.26% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1949 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|48 |align="right"|10 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|-30.0% |align="right"|245,284 |align="right"| 35.10% |align="right"| -2.52% |align="center"|Votes |align="center"|% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1952 |align="center"|Harold Winch |align="right"|48 |align="right"|7 |align="right"|18 |align="right"| +157.1% |align="right"|236,562 |align="right"| 30.78% |align="right"| -4.32% |align="right"|231,756 |align="right"|34.3% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1953 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|47 |align="right"|18 |align="right"|14 |align="right"| -22.2% |align="right"|224,513 |align="right"| 30.85% |align="right"| +0.07% |align="right"|194,414 |align="right"|29.48% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1956 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|51 |align="right"|14 |align="right"|10 |align="right"| -28.6% |align="right"|231,511 |align="right"| 28.32% |align="right"| -2.53% |- !British Columbia general election, 1960 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|52 |align="right"|10 |align="right"|16 |align="right"| +60.0% |align="right"|326,094 |align="right"| 32.73% |align="right"| +4.41% |- |colspan="9"|New Democratic Party |- !British Columbia general election, 1963 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|52 |align="right"|16 |align="right"|14 |align="right"| -12.5% |align="right"|269,004 |align="right"| 27.80% |align="right"|-4.93% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1966 |align="center"|Robert Strachan |align="right"|55 |align="right"|14 |align="right"|16 |align="right"| +14.3% |align="right"|252,753 |align="right"|33.62% |align="right"|+5.82% |- !British Columbia general election, 1969 |align="center"|Thomas Berger (Canadian politician) |align="right"|55 |align="right"|16 |align="right"|12 |align="right"| -25.0% |align="right"|331,813 |align="right"|33.92% |align="right"| +0.30% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1972 |align="center"|David Barrett |align="right"|55 |align="right"|12 |align="right"|38 |align="right"| +217% |align="right"|448,260 |align="right"|39.59% |align="right"| +5.67% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1975 |align="center"|David Barrett |align="right"|55 |align="right"|38 |align="right"|18 |align="right"| -52.6% |align="right"|505,396 |align="right"| 39.16% |align="right"| -0.43% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1979 |align="center"| David Barrett |align="right"|57 |align="right"|18 |align="right"|26 |align="right"| 44.4% |align="right"|646,188 |align="right"| 45.99% |align="right"| +6.83% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1983 |align="center"|David Barrett |align="right"|57 |align="right"|26 |align="right"|22 |align="right"|-15.4% |align="right"|741,354 |align="right"| 44.94% |align="right"|-1.05% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1986 |align="center"|Robert Skelly |align="right"|69 |align="right"|22 |align="right"|22 |align="right"| - |align="right"|824,544 |align="right"| 42.60% |align="right"| -2.34% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1991 |align="center"|Michael Harcourt |align="right"|75 |align="right"|22 |align="right"|51 |align="right"| +131.8% |align="right"| 595,391 |align="right"| 40.71% |align="right"| -1.89% |- !|British Columbia general election, 1996 |align="center"|Glen Clark |align="right"| 75 |align="right"| 51 |align="right"| 39 |align="right"| -23.53% |align="right"| 624,395 |align="right"|39.45% |align="right"| -1.26% |- !|British Columbia general election, 2001 |align="center"| Ujjal Dosanjh |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 39 |align="right"| 2 |align="right"| -94.9% |align="right"| 343,156 |align="right"| 21.56% |align="right"| -17.89% |- !|British Columbia general election, 2005 |align="center"| Carole James |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 2 |align="right"| 33 |align="right"| +1,550% |align="right"| 694,978 |align="right"| 41.43% |align="right"| +19.87% |- |} ==See also== *British Columbia New Democratic Party Leadership Conventions *List of British Columbia premiers *List of British Columbia general elections *List of Canadian political parties ==External links== *[http://www.bc.ndp.ca/ BC NDP site] British Columbia British Columbia political parties New Democratic Party of Canada
New Democratic Party of British Columbia
Is it safer to go by what a political party says it is instead of what it does? As a political scientist, I would be remiss if I chose to describe a political party by what it claims to be in its constitution. A far more interesting line of analysis would be to compare its actions with its claims. The current NDP, taken by its actions and policies, is clearly a social democratic party like Blair's Labour, not a democratic socialist party. But those are facts outside the agenda of those who insist on characterise the NDP in a manner that suits them. I strongly argue that democratic socialist be removed from a description of what the NDP is and moved to a discussion of what it claims. What it claims should certainly not be the lead for this article. Eh? Democratic Socialist? THE BC NDP is centrist enough that social democratic would also be giving them too much credit/blame. Well we can have the debate if you want... but the constitution of the BC NDP clearly states the words democratic socialist four times in the preamble alone. "The New Democratic Party is proud to be associated with the democratic socialist parties of the world and to share in the sturggle for peace, international co-operation and the abolition of poverty" & " The New Democratic Party believes that social, economic and political progress in Canada can only be assured by the application of democratic socialist principles to government and the administration of public affairs." The NDP calls itself a democratic socialist party we may as well call them that here as well. ==Democratic socialist again== As he has done so often in the past, Michaelm has changed an article without providing any evidence for his change. Evidence for the revert is provided above. User:Ground Zero 13:56, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Request for information== (I'm putting this on the main BC NDP page, as I doubt many people have the leadership conventions page on their watchlists yet.) I haven't been able to locate the first ballot results for the BC NDP's leadership convention held on November 23, 2003 (and won by Carole James). Queen's University stopped receiving the ''Vancouver Sun'' a few years ago, and the information doesn't seem to be available on-line. The national newspapers only covered the result of the second ballot (well ... the ''National Post'' didn't cover the story at all, but that's another matter).
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