NDP MPs and candidates who improved their vote total from the transposed 2011 results

NDP MPs and candidates who improved their vote total from the transposed 2011 results

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Many people will be surprised to learn that, of the 44 NDP MPs, almost half – 20 of them – won more votes last October than the NDP vote in 2011 (transposed onto the new boundaries). In other words, they not only ran ahead of the party in 2015, they were such stars they even ran ahead of the 2011 support. Nine of them are new MPs, 11 incumbents.

Of those 20, 12 were in BC, where the NDP picked up three seats while losing votes in other ridings, as clever BC voters cast strategic votes against the Conservatives. But the other eight stars were across Canada: Three in Ontario, three in Quebec, one in Manitoba and one in Saskatchewan.

MP                                      2011               2015 (Riding)

Tracey Ramsey                17528             25072 Essex

Gord Johns                       23400             26582 Courtenay—Alberni

Wayne Stetski                   20510             23529 Kootenay—Columbia

Rachel Blaney                   21239             24340 North Island—Powell River

Nathan Cullen                   19550             22531 Skeena—Bulkley Valley

Richard Cannings              21886             24823 South Okanagan–West Kootenay

Ruth Ellen Brosseau         20193             22942 Berthier—Maskinongé

Niki Ashton                        10962             13487 Churchill—Keewatinook Aski

Brian Masse                       21592             24085 Windsor West

Fin Donnelly                       17580             19706 Port Moody—Coquitlam

Don Davies                        18752             20763 Vancouver Kingsway

Peter Julian                        21200             22876 New Westminster—Burnaby        

Jenny Kwan                       27794             29316 Vancouver East       

Randall C. Garrison           22324             23836 Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke

Alistair MacGregor             20818             22200 Cowichan—Malahat—Langford

Alexandre Boulerice          27644             28672 Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie

Guy Caron                         18360             19374 Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata

Cheryl Hardcastle              22235             23215 Windsor—Tecumseh

Georgina Jolibois                9454               10319 Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River

Kennedy Stewart               16072             16094 Burnaby South

And 32 other NDP candidates improved their vote total from the transposed 2011 results, even without winning, including three incumbent MPs:

Candidate                             2011               2015 riding

Philip Toone                         10186             12885 Gaspésie—Les-Iles-de-la-Madeleine

Maria Mourani                      14550             16684 Ahuntsic—Cartierville

Jinny Sims                           11459             11602 Surrey—Newton

And 29 others, including eight in Alberta, five in Ontario and three in P.E.I. (candidates who got less than 10% not included):

Candidate                             2011               2015 riding

Mira Oreck                          10670            14462 Vancouver Granville

Howard Hampton                 6855             10420 Kenora

Jason Wayne McMichael   14856             18102 Sarnia--Lambton

Sara Norman                      12477             15400 Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam

Jacqui Gingras                   15075             17907 North Okanagan—Shuswap

Aaron Paquette                    9082             11582 Edmonton Manning

Cameron Alexis                    4859              7127  Peace River—Westlock

Janis Irwin                          14151            16309 Edmonton Griesbach

Bob D'Eith                          13404            15450 Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge

Gil McGowan                     11127             13084 Edmonton Centre

Herb Dickieson                    2369               4097 Egmont

Jack Iyerak Anawak            1525               3171 Nunavut

Melissa Atkinson                 2308               3943 Yukon

Doug Hart                           5805               7055 Red Deer—Lacombe
Diane Freeman                    8014              8928 Waterloo

Duane Zaraska                    4621              5513 Lakeland

Trent Derrick                        13016              13879 Cariboo—Prince George

Carolynn Ioannoni              12681              13525 Niagara Falls

Bill Sundhu                        20682           21466 Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo

Claire Card                       13344           14115 Saskatoon—University

Lon Borgerson                  10482           11244 Prince Albert

Brian Fleck                             9159               9846 Edmonton Riverbend

Constance Barnes              10952             11618 Vancouver Centre

Guy Desforges                      5655               6166 Sturgeon River—Parkland

Martin Singh                       7498             7946 Brampton North

Carol Baird Ellan                 15219             15537 Burnaby North—Seymour

Joe Byrne                           4632             4897 Charlottetown

Billy Cann                              2164               2503 Cardigan

Seonaigh MacPherson        8972               9218 Chilliwack—Hope