2017 New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election

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Next New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election
DateTBD
Resigning leaderDominic Cardy
New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership elections

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party, a social democratic political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, will have a leadership election in 2017 due to the resignation of party leader Dominic Cardy on January 1, 2017. A date for the election has not yet been set.

After almost six years as leader, Cardy resigned both as leader and as a member of the party, complaining of infighting as well as his disagreements with the policies of the party's federal counterpart, the New Democratic Party of Canada.

Timeline

  • March 2, 2011 - Cardy acclaimed party leader in the 2011 leadership election.
  • June 25, 2012 - Cardy places third in the Rothesay by-election.
  • September 22, 2014 - The NDP, led by Cardy, fails to win a seat in the 2014 general election though the party's popular support increases by 2.5 percentage points to 12.98%. Cardy himself places second in Fredericton West-Hanwell. The Green Party of New Brunswick, meanwhile, wins its first seat in the New Brunswick legilature displacing the NDP as the province's third party. Cardy announces his resignation as party leader.
  • October 21, 2014 - Cardy agrees to delay his resignation in order to contest a by-election in Saint John East, after its newly elected MLA unexpectedly resigns.
  • November 17, 2014 - Cardy is defeated in the by-election, placing third.
  • December 10, 2014 - The party executive rejects Cardy's resignation and urges him to remain, offering him a salary for the first time. Cardy agrees.
  • Fall 2016 - Memramcook-Tantramar riding association passes a resolution calling for a leadership review, claiming, of Cardy, that "[h]is style of leadership has not been constructive in terms of building bridges, he's been mostly burning bridges and alienating a lot of people in the party."[1]
  • January 1, 2017 - Cardy announces his resignation as both party leader and as a party member, alleging that "destructive forces" had colluded with the leadersip of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (New Brunswick) against him,[2][3] and accusing his opponents of being "extremists" and "communists".[4] Party president Sharon Levesque also resigns.[4] Cardy subsequently joined the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick as its director of strategic issues.[5]
  • January 9, 2017 - Rosaire L'Italien, a past federal NDP candidate and retired journalist, is appointed interim leader by the party executive.[6]

Official candidates

Declined

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cardy's parting words rile foes within NDP". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  2. ^ "N.B. NDP leader resigns over 'infighting' and clashes with federal party". Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  3. ^ "N.B. NDP leader resigns, citing control by 'tiny minority of well-connected members'". CTVNews. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  4. ^ a b "Cardy won't rule out return to politics, jump to PCs". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  5. ^ "After resigning over infighting, former New Brunswick NDP leader joins Conservatives | Toronto Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  6. ^ "NDP names Rosaire L'Italien interim leader". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  7. ^ a b c d e "NDP leadership doesn't tempt some prominent party members at all". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
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