Avi Lewis has been named the new leader of the federal NDP, drawing to a close a six-month leadership campaign.
The new leader won on the first ballot, receiving 56 per cent of the total votes cast during the election, or 39,734 out of a possible 70,930.
“This is a tremendous result,” Lewis said in his first remarks following his victory. “But even more important than the results of this leadership vote is the unity of our party.”
While people in the room applauded Lewis, the result did not generate universal praise.
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi said in a post on X that Lewis becoming the federal leader was “not in the interests of Alberta.”
“Albertans deserve federal leaders who understand the importance of Alberta and our essential role in the federation,” Nenshi wrote.
The election of a new leader came months after former head of the party, Jagmeet Singh, said he would resign after the NDP’s overwhelming loss in the 2025 federal election.
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The party was reduced to seven seats in April 2025, but that number has dropped to six when Nunavut MP Lori Idlout crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this month.
“If it isn’t already obvious, we are building a new foundation for our party and we are ready to come roaring back on the Canadian political stage,” Lewis said. “The NDP comeback starts now.”
Heather McPherson came in second place with 20,899 votes, with Tanille Johnston, Rob Ashton and Tony McQuail coming in third, fourth and fifth respectively.
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Lewis went on to commend each of his fellow candidates, calling Johnston a “rising star” and saying McQuail reiterated the importance of changing the First Past the Post electoral system. He also said Ashton was the “real deal” and that workers were at the heart of the party while adding McPherson knows “how to win” and that she helps others win.
The NDP’s new leader went on to stress the party’s need to tackle issues Canadians are facing.
“Canadians are living on the edge, we’re under economic from the U.S. while Donald Trump stomps around the globe, grabbing foreign leaders and oil fields and starting wars he has no idea how to stop,” Lewis said. “At the kitchen table in Canada, there’s an even bigger crisis the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney congratulated Lewis in a post on X, saying he would take a “collaborative approach.”
“I look forward to speaking about how we can work together to keep delivering for Canadians,” Carney wrote.
And that is how NDP will implode.
They’ve elected a guy who would be “delighted” (his words) to take advice from Jagmeet Singh.
That alone tells me Dipsticks are toast.
That and the new “leader” celebrated his win in front of Palestine frag.
No Canadian flag in sight.
When even Nenshi is distancing himself from Lewis, there’s zero hope for this disaster of a party to win anything. Ever.
Call the 19th. century, it wants Avi Lewis back. His speech on taxing wealth betrays his angry tired socialist ideas. Take from a successful grocery owner & you take his building, freezers, buildings etc or from a factory owner, his vehicles, machinery, warehouses etc. Result jobs lost, taxes for business, real estate, sales, incomes tariffs, permits etc. what do you do next year now you took his wealth. NDP -No Damn Plan.
Say goodnight to the Beleagueres NDP
NDP Are so behind the Stupid 8 Ball
that they wont win a single seat in
the Next Federal Election.
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Comedy hour! Anyone who watched the lunatic convention sat back and was stunned, shocked, dismayed, laughed in glee at this show of ridiculousness. And there’s canoey, loving it all while Alberta and Saskatchewan Ndp leaders try to distance themselves from the circus.
So what? Know one will vote for some jew. Especially an NDP jew. Probably sides with the little warmonger Nuttyyahhoo and his genocide.
Ron Johnson you forgot to mention he is Jewish so can we assume his position on Palestine?
Unbelievable, the NDP Party which supposed to be a party of diversity, equity and inclusive picks and old angry white guy for a leader.
Ndp= no, damn, platform.
Ndp means no, damn, platform.
Do real citizens with jobs actually vote NDP, or is solely the unemployed loser welfare bums
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Not with stances on policies like he has. Leyton at least was common sense driven.
Singh screwed every single person in Canada whether they know it or not… the NDP will never be relevant in our lifetime.
no thanks
NDP evolves into the PLO of Canada! No Canadian flag on the Dias but a PLO flag celebrating its new leader. RIP NDP!
A new garbage leader for an almost extinct federal party.
Well … the NDP are not going anywhere but to extinction with that guy.
And based on the priorities of this new leader, Canadians will be roaring with laughter. His priorities are tone deaf to the majority of Canadians. We need a strong left of center party in this country and this man isn’t it.
It wasn’t that long ago they were the Official Opposition, now they circle the toilet as they have earned.
Sure a lot of Palestine posters there, plus some Palestine flags waiving around. Pro-Palestine is Pro-Hamas.
Well at least he doesn’t hav a pretty pink hat
Who cares
Who?? Leader of a party that is being lead to the abattoir!
Singh destroyed the NDP . He put is own agenda before the party, and now all NDP party members are obsolete. There’s no way back for them Canadians can no longer trust them. My prediction they will change the party name before the next federal election.Maybe they will become CBT (can’t be trusted) party.
What has plagued Canada for years is politicians and people with unrealistic values who think that by blocking essential infrastructure they can somehow “green” the planet. How many of the NDP members went to the convention in planes, which use fossil fuel…and yet they condemn the development of resources.
You look at the NDP and it seems they want to be wiped out. Singh was a nice guy but a big mistake. Another Lewis will seal the NDP’s fate, he is not liked and not someone who could help anyone but Carney
A ‘I wana pony’ leader who ran twice in BC and still couldn’t get elected by the people.
Gord Hasay, just like the PPC. No party, no seats, no way
Carney salivating at the thought of resurrecting the NDP Liberal coalition to bring about the Fourth Reich of unconfrontable rule over Canada
IM, seriously? Heather is another wingnut.
A leader with no seat for a party that is becoming extinct because it believes in ideology instead of reality.
Too bad. Shoulda been Heather. Laurentian voters rule even the ndp.
No thanks Avi.
Thus ends the NDP party but don’t worry another party will open soon.
NDP supports replacing Canadian workers with foringers…
Who cares about this joke of a party. They are responsible for the state we find ourselves in today.
Who ?
Who me no what me now lol