http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/general/christopher-majka en http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/ndp-taking-turn-left <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div> <img alt="" src="https://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/350px-width-scale-PREVIEW/node-images/gary-burrill-2.jpg" style="width: 155px; height: 257px; margin: 11px; float: right;" />Nova Scotia New Democrats have taken a decisive turn to the progressive left with the election of Gary Burrill as the new leader of the NDP.<br />  </div> <div> The post has been vacant since the fall of 2013 when Premier Darrell Dexter's government was roundly defeated by the Liberals under Stephen McNeil, reducing it from majority government to third-party status. Dexter lost his own seat in Cole Harbour and resigned as leader of the Nova Scotia NDP on November 23, 2013.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Since then Maureen MacDonald, MLA from Halifax-Needham, has been serving as the interim leader of the party.</div> <div> In a three-person contest with MLAs Lenore Zann and Dave Wilson, Burrill emerged with a clear win securing the first and second choice preferences of 1,343 members (of 2,269 voters) in an election that employed ranked balloting and in which a record 74.2 per cent of eligible NDP members voted. Lenore Zann came second while Dave Wilson finished in third place. </div> <div>  </div> <div> <a href="https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/christophermajka/2016/02/nova-scotia-new-democrats-elect-gary-burrill-new-leader">SEE FULL STORY BY CHRISTOPHER MAJKA</a> <a href="https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/christophermajka/2016/02/nova-scotia-new-democrats-elect-gary-burrill-new-leader">ON RABBLE.CA</a></div> <div>  </div> <div> <a href="https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/gary-burrill-on-the-class-struggle-lighten-up-morning-file-monday-february-29-2016/">SEE GARY BURRIL STORY IN HALIFAX EXAMINER</a></div> </div></div></div><div class="service-links"><a href="https://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/ndp-taking-turn-left&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=&amp;text=NDP taking a turn to the left&amp;counturl=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/ndp-taking-turn-left" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/ndp-taking-turn-left&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=100&amp;height=21&amp;font=&amp;locale=" title="I Like it" class="service-links-facebook-like" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Facebook Like</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php" title="Share this post on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook-widget" rel="http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/ndp-taking-turn-left" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/gary-burrill" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">GARY BURRILL</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/nova-scotia" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">nova scotia</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/ndp" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ndp</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/christopher-majka" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CHRISTOPHER MAJKA</a></div></div></div> Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:50:58 +0000 Timothy Gillespie 4436 at http://www.southcoasttoday.ca http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/ndp-taking-turn-left#comments