| rdfs:comment | - The New Democratic Party is a major political party in Canada. It is currently lead by Thomas Mulcair, who was officially elected leader on March 24, 2012, as the successor to Jack Layton, who had died the previous summer. They were the leader of the official opposition in 2011 for the first time. Son leader est M. Thomas Mulcair, depuis 2013. Il est bilingue and an MP from Montréal. Currently (2016), they have 44 seats out of 338. They lost over half their seats in the 2015 federal election.
- The party was lead by Jack Layton since 2003 until his death in 2011, right before which he lead the party through the May 2nd 2011 federal election to a historical win that launched the NDP from third-party status to the Official Opposition for the first time ever, winning 103 seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the Parliament of Canada, making it the second-largest political party in Canada (they previously only held 32 seats and their previous highest record was 43 seats).
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| abstract | - The New Democratic Party is a major political party in Canada. It is currently lead by Thomas Mulcair, who was officially elected leader on March 24, 2012, as the successor to Jack Layton, who had died the previous summer. They were the leader of the official opposition in 2011 for the first time. Son leader est M. Thomas Mulcair, depuis 2013. Il est bilingue and an MP from Montréal. Currently (2016), they have 44 seats out of 338. They lost over half their seats in the 2015 federal election.
- The party was lead by Jack Layton since 2003 until his death in 2011, right before which he lead the party through the May 2nd 2011 federal election to a historical win that launched the NDP from third-party status to the Official Opposition for the first time ever, winning 103 seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the Parliament of Canada, making it the second-largest political party in Canada (they previously only held 32 seats and their previous highest record was 43 seats). Three months after their historic win, on August 23rd, Jack Layton tragically passed away due to cancer. The party is currently lead by Thomas Mulcair (from the riding of Outremont, in Quebec). The NDP is also currently leading all public opinion polls, putting them in first place nationally (especially in the province of Quebec), ahead of the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party.
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