NDP Comebacks With Avi Lewis As New NDP Leader After Getting Casted With An Expectional Majority Votes

  

Avi Lewis Wins The Majority Vote at NDP Convention in Winnipeg (Manitoba) (Source: X/Avi Lewis)

After Loosing Elections & Its Popular Leader, NDP is ready for a Comeback to Represent & Fight To Make New Democrats, A Party of True 99% of Canadians in Coming Years 

New Democratic Party (NDP) (Mar. 29, 2026) (Winnipeg): The NDP has announced its New Leader Avi Lewis leading the New Democrats in Canada. The New Leader now relieves the Interim Leader (Don Davies) from NDP Leadership. Avi received a majority vote of 56% during the current election convention held at Winnipeg, Manitoba. A record number of electors casted their vote (70,934 Votes Casted out of 100,542 Electors; 70,930 Valid Votes) during this electoral victory for Avi Lewis. 

Avi Lewis was running for the leadership with Fellow NDP Leaders including Heather McPherson (20,889 votes in favour), Tanille Johnston (5159 votes in favour), Rob Ashton (4,193 votes in favour) and Tony McQuail (945 votes in favour). A high turnout of 70.6% suggested in the first ballot leadership race for NDP in 2026.

      Photograph of New Democratic Party (NDP) Leader Elect Avi Lewis Vote Avi Campaign (Source: LewisForLeader) 

Eric Herbert-Daly (Cheif Electoral Officer, Leadership Elections New Democratic Party) has said, 

"New Democrats have spent this past year rebuilding the party, talking to Canadians about what matters to them. I want to thank all five leadership contestants for showing the heart and soul of our movement throughout the campaign."

David Eby (Premier of British Columbia) expressed and congratulated Avi Lewis as, 

"Congratulations to Avi Lewis on being elected as the federal leader by NDP members, and thank you to Don Davies for your service as interim leader. Here in BC, we are strengthening public healthcare by bringing in hundreds of doctors and nurses. We are tackling the housing crisis by building tens of thousands of homes. In unstable times, our Look West plan is growing our economy and creating good, union jobs in the industries that power our province like mining, energy and tech. We are speeding up approvals by working with local communities and Indigenous people. Our priority is lifting up working people and growing prosperity. We will work with anyone and any federal leader who shares our priorities, and stand firm against those who put that progress at risk."

Wab Kinew (Premier of Manitoba) has also congratulated Avi Lewis on X (Twitter) on his electoral victory in NDP Leadership. 

Avi Lewis Election Campaign for speeches during his campaign run for NDP (Source: LewisForLeader)

Before, starting his Political career Avi Lewis has spent his 35 years in journalism, education and social activism. The Newly Elect NDP Leader (Avi Lewis) is a Two time federal NDP Candidate for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea-to-Sky (2021) & Vancouver Centre (2025). The NDP leader (Avi Lewis) also a founding member of The Leap a cross border climate action group which has touched numerous issues including climate, racial, economic, migrant and gender justice, Indigenous rights, food justice, organized labor, media and the arts. 

During his Leadership campaign, NDP leader was endorsed by 103 NDP Leaders & 16 distinguished organizations with a idealogy of taking the party forward as "True Party of 99%". This represents NDP's tax plan for 99% for ultra rich, dignified work for canadians in digital age, implementing a national rent cap and more. This rebuilding phase has been faced by the New Democrats in 1993, when the party seats in house of commons was reduced to only 9 seats, which then progressively made it way back in house of commons with 19 seats under the leadership of Jack Layton by 2004. A tremendous success for NDP as it starts to rebuild itself again, after the 2025 elections. 

Click to review a Full list of Leadership Contestants 2026 for New Democratic Party. Click to read more about Avi Lewis Campaign at Lewis For Leader. 

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New Democratic Party is a wide-spread federal political party which has its roots dated back in 1961 when it was founded. The Party was formed from a union of Co-operative Commonewealth Federation (CCF) and Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) with Tommy Douglas as its founding leader to create The New Democratic Party (NDP). The Party has been led by David Lewis (1971-75), Ed Broadbent (1975-89), Audrey Mclaughlin (1989-95), Alexa McDonough (1995-2003), Jack Layton (2003-2011), Tom Muclair (2012-2017) and Jagmeet Singh (2017-2025). The left wing party has been prominent player in British Columbian politics as it has been elected 7 times in the province, then followed by Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Alberta.  

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