Saskatchewan New Democratic Party

The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP; French Nouveau Parti démocratique de la Saskatchewan ) is a social democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Since the last elections in 2011, it holds in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan 9 of 58 seats and is thus in opposition. The party emerged from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and introduced since the 1940s for several decades the government. It is connected with the New Democratic Party at the federal level.

History

The history of the party to the year 1902, when the Territorial Grain Growers' Association was founded. This agricultural interest group changed in 1905 in Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association ( SGGA ). 1921 split from the leftist Farmer's Union, but five years later, the two organizations joined together again to the United Farmers of Canada (UFC). 1931 was the merger of the UFC with the US-led Major James Coldwell Independent Labour Party for Farmer - Labour Group ( FLG). This concluded in the same year a deputy of the Progressive Party in, bringing the FLG was first represented in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

1934 won the FLG five seats and was strongest opposition party. After this election, she joined formally to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. 1941 took over the lower house deputies Tommy Douglas the party chairmanship. In 1944, he led the party to a landslide victory; the CCF won 47 of 52 seats and formed the first socialist government in North America. Douglas ' government continued in the following years through numerous reforms. The implementation of the most ambitious reform project, a free health care, his successor, Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was left. This model served as a model for other provinces and the federal state.

Starting in 1964, the party was the first time in opposition, 1967, she took on her present name NDP. In 1971 she won again the majority presented with Allan Blakeney and the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, government drove the nationalization of extraction progress in the province. After the electoral defeat of 1981, the NDP was again a period of ten years in opposition. Under Roy Romanow she moved ideologically toward the center. 1999 had Romanov form a coalition with the Saskatchewan Liberal Party. His successor Lorne Calvert succeeded in 2003 to win an absolute majority. Since 2007, the NDP is again in opposition.

Election results

Party chairman

P = Prime Minister

  • Major James Coldwell (July 27, 1932 - July 17, 1936 )
  • George Hara Williams (17 July 1936 - 12 February 1941 )
  • John Hewgill Brockel Bank (February 12, 1941 - July 17, 1942 )
  • Tommy Douglas (17 July 1942 - November 3, 1961 ) P
  • Woodrow Stanley Lloyd (November 3, 1961 - July 4, 1970 ) P
  • Allan Blakeney (4 July 1970 - November 7, 1987 ) P
  • Roy Romanow (7 November 1987 - 27 January 2001 ) P
  • Lorne Calvert (January 27, 2001 - June 6, 2009 ) P
  • Dwain Lingenfelter ( since 6 June 2009)
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