British Columbia New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) is a social-democratic provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada, and governed the province from 1972 to 1975, and then again from 1991 to 2001, losing power that year to the BC Liberals. Following the 2013 provincial election in British Columbia, the party remains the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals).

The BC NDP is the provincial arm of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). Unlike other parties in Canada, where provincial and federal politics and parties are strictly separated and members of one are not necessarily members of the other, NDP members are automatically members of both the federal and provincial party.

The party won the largest number of seats in three provincial elections, 1972, 1991 and 1996, but was reduced to two seats in the 2001 provincial election.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (British Columbia Section)

Founding