<Li> Politics of Newfoundland and Labrador </Li> <P> The Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party (NL NDP) is a social democratic political party in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada . It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party . It was formed in 1961 as the successor to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Newfoundland Democratic Party . The party first contested the 1962 provincial election . </P> <P> Lorraine Michael was elected leader of the NL NDP at the party's leadership election on May 28, 2006 . She led the party during the 2007 and 2011 general elections, each time improving the party's share of vote from the previous election . In the 2011 election a record five NDP MHAs were elected under her leadership . Michael was succeeded by former Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union president, Earle McCurdy on March 7, 2015 . </P> <P> The NL NDP is the successor party to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). The Newfoundland CCF was founded in 1955 when Sam Drover, a member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly for White Bay (Trinity North) who left the provincial Liberal Party to sit as a member of the CCF . Drover became leader of the new provincial party, which fielded ten candidates, mostly in rural districts, in the 1956 provincial election . The CCF party failed to win any seats: Drover lost his own riding, winning 237 votes to the Liberal candidate's 1,437 . </P>

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