(Then-NDP leader Tom Mulcair speaks at a party convention in Dartmouth, N.S., in 2014.© Ted Pritchard/Postmedia/File)
by Tristin Hopper
National Post
March 26, 2025
After years of bristling at the idea of “vote splitting,” former NDP leader Tom Mulcair has effectively warned NDP supporters not to split the vote in the 2025 election.
In a March 24 op-ed for Bloomberg News , Mulcair warned that the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump is too dire for Canadians to vote for third parties, and that the coming election should be a race “between the Liberals and Conservatives.”
“If you can’t seriously say you’re going to form a government that can take on Trump, then get out of the way and let the only real contenders have at it,” he wrote.
Mulcair was leader of the NDP between 2012 and 2017 — a period that saw the party form the Official Opposition against the government of Stephen Harper.
It was also a position in which Mulcair often had to resist charges that a vote for his NDP served only to split the progressive vote to the benefit of the Conservatives
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