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The party's origins lie in the The Farmer-Labour Group, a political organization created by the United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan Section) in 1932. The FLG won 24% of the vote but only five seats in the 1934 provincial election. Following the election, the Farmer-Labour Group and the province's Independent Labour Party merged to become the Saskatchewan branch of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). The national CCF party had been founded in 1933.
In the 1944 election, the Saskatchewan CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, swept to power, forming the first socialist government in North America. The CCF/NDP has governed the province with only two interruptions since 1944.
The party's greatest accomplishment was the introduction of North America's first comprehensive system of public medical insurance or Medicare (sometimes referred to as socialized medicine). The fight to introduce Medicare in the province was intense due to the opposition of the province's doctors, backed by the American Medical Association. The AMA feared that public health care would spread tyo other parts of the continent if introduced in one part. The doctors staged a 23-day strike. But despite a concerted attempt to defeat Medicare, the program was introduced, and became so popular it was soon adopted across Canada.
Douglas resigned as party leader and Premier in 1961 to become the founding leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. The NDP had been formed by a coalition of the CCF and the Canadian Labour CongressThe Canadian Labour Congress or CLC (in French "le Congres du travail du Canada or CTC is the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labor unions are affiliated. History It was founded in 1956 by the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC. The Saskatchewan CCF followed suit, and adopted its current name after a transitional period as the NDP-CCF.
The turmoil of the Medicare fight took its toll, however, and the NDP-CCF government of Douglas' successor Woodrow S. LloydWoodrow Stanley Lloyd (1913-1972) was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan. Douglas left provincial politics to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party of Canada. As leader of the Saskatche was defeated at the hands of Ross Thatcher's Saskatchewan Liberal PartyThe Saskatchewan Liberal Party is a political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The party dominated Saskatchewan politics for the province's first forty years providing six of the first seven premiers, and being in power for all but five of in the 1964 electionThe Fifteenth Provincial General Election in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan was held on April 22, 1964. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Premier Woodrow Lloyd was defeated by the Liberal Party, led by Ross Thatcher. The Co-ope.
The NDP rebuilt itself, and returned to power in the 1971 electionThe Seventeenth Provincial General Election in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan was held on June 23, 1971. Under the leadership of Allan Blakeney, the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan returned to power after seven years in opposition. The NDP won, under Allan BlakeneyAllan Emrys Blakeney (born 1925) was the Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan's from 1971 to 1982, and leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. Blakeney was a senior civil servant in Saskatchewan before entering politics and serving as. His government was defeated in the 1982 electionThe Twentieth Provincial General Election in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan was held on April 26, 1982. The Progressive Conservative Party, led by Grant Devine, won over half the popular vote, and a large majority in the Legislative Assembly of Sas by the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, led by Grant Devine
The party returned to office in 1992, and has governed since then under the leadership of Roy Romanow and Lorne Calvert.
The Romanow govrnement was more conservative than previous CCF/NDP governments, and instituted a program of hospital closures and program cuts in order to eliminate the budget deficit inherited from Grant Devine's PC government. Romanow later quipped that he was a supporter of Tony Blair's Third Way concept before it even existed. The NDP's new found fiscal conservatism alienated some of its more left wing members, who left the party and merged with the Green Party supporters to form the New Green Alliance.
Romanow almost lost the the 1999 election, and his government only stayed in office by forming a coalition government with the small Liberal party. Following the 2003 general election, the NDP, now under Lorne Calvert, was able to form a government on its own with a majority in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan of only one.
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