The Parti de la Democratie Socialiste (PDS) (in English: Party of Socialist Democracy) was a political party in Quebec, Canada.
The early origins of the PDS can be traced back to the Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif (FCC), later renamed Parti social-démocratique (PSD) (Social democratic Party). The FCC / PSD was the Quebec counterpart of the canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
After the CCF became the New Democratic Party of Canada in 1961, the Quebec wing was refounded as the Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec (NPD-Québec or NPDQ) (New Democratic Party of Quebec). The NPD-Québec contested Quebec general elections in 1970, 1976, 1985, 1989 and 1994. The NPDQ became independent from the federal NDP in 1989. A new branch of the New Democratic Party of Canada, called New Democratic Party of Canada (Quebec), was refounded in 1990, and is active only on the federal level in the province. In 1995, the NPDQ changed its name to Parti de la démocratie socialiste and contested the 1998 Quebec election under this new name.
In 2002, it joined with the Rassemblement pour l'alternative progressiste (Union for a progressive alternative) and the Parti communiste du Québec (Communist Party of Quebec) to form the Union des forces progressistes (UFP). It remains an organized tendency within the UFP under the name Québec socialiste.
Leaders of the NPDQ and the PDS
Election results
| General election |
# of candidates |
# of elected candidates |
% of popular vote |
| 1970 (NPDQ) |
13 |
0 |
0.15% |
| 1973 (NPDQ) |
The party didn't run candidates in this election. |
| 1976 (coal.†) |
21 |
0 |
0.05% |
| 1981 (NPDQ) |
The party didn't run candidates in this election. |
| 1985 (NPDQ) |
90 |
0 |
2.42% |
| 1989 (NPDQ) |
55 |
0 |
1.22% |
| 1994 (NPDQ) |
41 |
0 |
0.85% |
| 1998 (PDS) |
97 |
0 |
0.59% |
†coalition Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec / Regroupement des militants syndicaux
See also
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