Howard Hampton Andrea Horwath The 2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Hamilton, from March 6 to 8, 2009 to elect a successor to Howard Hampton as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).

With the support of high-profile party members such as the left-wing MPP Peter Kormos and Sid Ryan, the President of CUPE Ontario, Andrea Horwath, the MPP for Hamilton Centre, won the leadership contest with 60.4% of the vote on the final ballot.

[1][15][16][17] Prue was first elected to public office as a city councillor in 1988, and then became mayor in 1993 of the former Borough of East York.

In the 2004 Canadian federal election he ran in the riding of Beaches—East York where he lost to Liberal MP Maria Minna.

Endorsements Peter Tabuns drew on his environmentalist roots and made his proposal for a "New Energy Economy" based on green principles the centrepiece of his campaign.

In public policy he advocated targeted corporate tax cuts and an anti-crime platform.

In party matters she emphasised a closer relationship to unions and the hiring of regional organisers.

[39] In the past, the Ontario NDP has used a traditional delegated leadership convention to select its leaders in which delegates elected by local riding associations, campus clubs, labour union locals affiliated with the party choose the leader.

The ONDP constitution (article 9, paragraph 4) stipulates that: The party's executive committee finalized the deadlines, spending limits and other rules for the March 2009 election.

[15] Two-time NDP candidate Michael Laxer criticized the entrance fee as being too high, saying: "What you get by doing that is you manifestly limit the number of people who are outside the party establishment, and who have available big backers of one kind or another.