NDP ‘a loser’ in recent byelections, should be ‘very worried’ about hemorrhaging support to Liberals, say political players

Recent byelection results should make the NDP rethink their supply-and-confidence deal with the government, says Innovative Research president Greg Lyle.

All five byelections since 2021 have shown the Liberals are making gains at the expense of the NDP, so party leader Jagmeet Singh, left, may want to reconsider propping up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals going forward, says Nik Nanos, chief data scientist for Nanos Research.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

July 3, 2023

With the Liberals winning five per cent more votes on average in the last five byelections compared to the 2021 general election—largely at the NDP's expense—New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh must reconsider if he wants to keep propping up the government going fo...

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