New Party was the interim name used by the new political party being established in Canada

Canada

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 from 1958 to 1961 by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

 (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress

Canadian Labour Congress

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 (CLC), which eventually defined itself as a social democratic

Social democracy

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 party. In 1958 a joint CCF-CLC committee, the National Committee for the New Party (NCNP), was formed and spent the next three years laying down the foundations of the 'New Party'. During the process of founding the party, the New Party name was used in the October 1960 Peterborough

Peterborough (electoral district)

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, Canadian federal by-election; which was won by its candidate, Walter Pitman

Walter Pitman

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. In August 1961, at the end of a five-day long convention, the New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

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 (NDP) was born and T.C. 'Tommy' Douglas

Tommy Douglas

Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician...

 was elected its first leader. Once the NDP was formed, the New Party clubs, and affiliates automatically ceased, and became part of newly formed party.

See also

• Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
  Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
  The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...
  
  
• Ontario CCF
• New Democratic Party
  New Democratic Party
  The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
  
  
• Major James Coldwell
  Major James Coldwell
  Major James William Coldwell, , usually known as M.J. , was a Canadian social democratic politician, and leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party from 1942 to 1960. He was born in England, and immigrated to Canada in 1910...
  
  
• Tommy Douglas
  Tommy Douglas
  Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician...
  
  
• Claude Jodoin
  Claude Jodoin
  Claude Jodoin was a Canadian trade unionist and politician. He served as the first president of the Canadian Labour Congress from 1956 to 1966.-Background:...
  
  
• Stanley Knowles
  Stanley Knowles
  Stanley Howard Knowles, PC, OC was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party .Knowles was widely...
  
  
• David Lewis
  David Lewis (politician)
  David Lewis, CC was a Russian-born Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1936 to 1950, and one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party in 1961...
  
  
• Donald MacDonald
  Donald MacDonald (Nova Scotia politician)
  Donald MacDonald, O.C., LL.D. was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist who led the Nova Scotia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1941...
  
  
• Donald C. MacDonald
  Donald C. MacDonald
  Donald Cameron MacDonald, CM, O.Ont was a long time Canadian politician and political party leader and had been referred to as the "Best premier Ontario never had." He represented the provincial riding of York South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1955 to 1982...