Next New Democratic Party leadership election

Next New Democratic Party leadership election
Incumbent leader

Don Davies
(interim)


Next New Democratic Party leadership election
DateTBD
Resigning leaderJagmeet Singh

The New Democratic Party will hold a leadership election to choose a permanent successor to Jagmeet Singh after he resigned as party leader following the 2025 Canadian federal election. The date of the leadership election is yet to be determined by the party's executive.

Background

In 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP). He is an Indo-Canadian, and the first non-White politician to be elected to lead a major federal political party in Canada.[1][2] Singh led the party in the 2019, 2021, and 2025 federal elections. On March 22, 2022, the NDP reached a confidence and supply agreement with the governing Liberal Party of Canada, agreeing to support the government until June 2025 in exchange for specific policy commitments.[3] On September 4, the NDP withdrew from their confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals, though they did not commit to a motion of non-confidence.[4]

While Singh's NDP stagnated in most opinion polls following the 2021 federal election, the party experienced a brief jump in support to second place following the collapse of the governing Liberal party, during the 2024–2025 political crisis. However, following Trudeau's resignation in January and Mark Carney's election as Liberal leader, the NDP collapsed in most polls, with most of its support going to the Liberals.[5]

At the 2025 federal election, Singh led the NDP to its worst result in party history, losing official party status and himself having been defeated in the riding of Burnaby Central. On election night, he announced that he would resign as party leader;[6] he was replaced by Vancouver Kingsway MP Don Davies on an interim basis until a new party leader is elected.[7]

Rules

Under rules set out in the party's constitution, every member is entitled to cast a secret ballot for the selection of the leader. The new leader will be chosen at a leadership convention through a combination of ranked ballots and round by round voting. If a leader is not chosen in the first round, additional vote counts will take place once a week until a candidate obtains 50 per cent plus one votes and is declared leader. Voters that chose to vote with an internet ballot will be allowed to change their vote at any time before the closure of the polls, including between each round of balloting.

Candidates will be required to pay an entry fee and abide by a spending limit. 25% of all donations to candidates will be paid to the party. To be nominated, candidates require at least 500 signatures from party members, at least half of which must be from female-identified members and at least 100 from "other equity-seeking groups" including Indigenous people, LGBTQ people, persons with disabilities, and visible minorities. At least 50 signatures will be required from each of five regions: the Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and B.C., and the North.[8][9][10]

Timeline

  • April 28, 2025 — The 2025 Canadian federal election was held. The New Democratic Party was reduced to seven seats and lost official party status for the first time since 1993. Party leader Jagmeet Singh, who was defeated in Burnaby Central, announced that he would step down once an interim leader was appointed.[11]
  • May 5, 2025 — The party's federal council named Don Davies, MP for Vancouver Kingsway, as interim leader following consultations with the party's parliamentary caucus.[12]
  • May 10, 2025 — NDP MPs Leah Gazan, Lori Idlout, and Jenny Kwan wrote a letter to the party's executive and council saying they were not properly consulted in the selection of Davies as interim leader. The letter says that the party executive and other MPs did not hold caucus discussions or provide a timeline. In a statement for a May 16 story in The Globe and Mail, NDP national director Lucy Watson said that the federal council had sole responsibility for choosing an interim leader under the constitution.[13]
  • July 8, 2025 — Party launches an internal review of the 2025 campaign; it will be led by human rights lawyer and former candidate Emilie Taman.[14]

Candidates

Declared

Date campaign announced: June 23, 2025
Campaign website:
Endorsements:
Policies: Proposes a merger of the NDP and the Green Party to form a new party, the Green Democratic Progressives.[16]
  • Yves Engler,[17] author, activist, and founder of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.
Date campaign announced: July 3, 2025
Campaign website: Website
Endorsements: NDP Socialist Caucus
Policies: Advocates for affordable public housing, universal pharmacare, slashing military spending, curtailing arms sales, and withdrawing Canadian troops from all international deployments with U.S. forces.

Potential

Declined

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