If you look at the NDP’s fundraising over the last four elections, it reveals a troubling downward trend for a party already in dire financial straits.
They’ve stayed pretty low since 2015. The end of the Layton legacy. Their fundraising in the 2025 federal election was $3,736k, while the 2021 election had $3,994. Similarly, their Q1 and Q2 total fundraising going back five years is growing slightly.
But the following tracks with my biases:
McGrane said Canada’s National Observer’s analysis indicates the NDPs base is stagnant and it hasn’t been able to grow or expand that base since the Jack Layton and Tom Mulcair years.
“There’s a solid base of Canadians that, basically, come hell or high water, is always going to give to the federal NDP,” McGrane said. “It’s part of their identity. It’s part of how the federal NDP has become entrenched in Canadian politics. And this is, I think, part of the reason why the federal NDP isn’t going anywhere.”
Cratered is relative.
They’ve stayed pretty low since 2015. The end of the Layton legacy. Their fundraising in the 2025 federal election was $3,736k, while the 2021 election had $3,994. Similarly, their Q1 and Q2 total fundraising going back five years is growing slightly.
But the following tracks with my biases: