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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.
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]
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]
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