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The New Democratic Party in Canada has been a weirdly successful third party at times with so what would be the best way to have them secure a full win in a Canadian election? The best point I can see is back in 2011 when they came in second with 30% of the vote but it seems like a fairly steep...

@RogueBeaver, @True Grit, @Callan, @Kermode, @Oppo Back in 1963 the Diefenbaker government was in complete disarray. Down in the polls, in some cases as much as twenty-points, the government has enacted some pretty unpopular policies, including the cancellation of the Avro Arrow. It had gotten...

What if the NDP did not get the surge in support they received in the 2011 Canadian election and the Liberals weren't forced into third place and the Bloc Quebecois did not lose most of its seats? I made these changes to the election results: Quebec; NDP -27%, Conservative +5%, Bloc +15%...

Terrorist attacks in major cities had grown dramatically with examples such as 9/11, the 7/7 attacks and the Madrid train bombing. It was something that was tragically becoming all too common. Something that all security experts could agree on was that Canada was by far not immune to a terrorist...

In OTL, the 1989 NDP leadership race was won by Audrey McLaughlin over Dave Barrett, the former NDP Premier of British Columbia. And as Wikipedia puts it; "During the campaign, Barrett argued that the party should be concerned with Western alienation, rather than focusing its attention on...

What if after the 2008 Canadian election, a coalition government was successfully formed between the Liberals and the NDP, with the support of the Bloc Quebecois, as was attempted, and the Harper government was overthrown? A PoD for this could be that Governor-General Michaelle Jean does not let...

When I first signed-up on the wonderful forum, I immediately started a little TL entitled Redemption: A Political Comeback Story. As you all know, it was pretty horrible and it was never finished (Something that I no doubt have become known for doing). As it was my first story I always felt a...

I've had various ideas that I've wanted to incorporate into a Canadian politics TL for a very long time, but I could never put together a solid enough underlying concept to transubstantiate these threads into reality. The goal of this TL should be quite obvious from the title, and my political...

Me and a friend were discussing this issue recently. I proposed that had Stephen Harper resigned sometime before the 2015 federal election, as was rumoured, than perhaps the party would have had a better shot at winning re-election. My friend, an avid supporter of the NDP, didn't think so...

The NDP could wait no longer. Canada could wait no longer. A life-time in third-place was ending. Tom Mulcair, Leader of the Opposition, was going to win first-place for the NDP this time. It wasn't just hope. The polls were swinging to the NDP, they had the lead now. Stephen Harper and the...