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The main opponents of the NDP of BC are the Green Party of British Columbia (which challenges it especially for the votes of ecologists and environmentally concerned citizens), and the BC Liberal Party, the present majority party.
Despite serving as the government throughout the 1990s, the NDP of BC was plagued by a series of leadership scandals. One of the many blunders, the NDP government embarked on were the construction of the PacifiCats[?], which would later become part of the FastCat Fiasco. In the May, 2001, British Columbia election[?] the New Democrats only elected two MLA's and were therefore reduced below official party status. BC Premier Gordon Campbell of the BC Liberal Party refused to grant this status to the NDP itself, nor to any coalition or combination of the NDP, Greens, Unity, or other small parties. Taken together, the support for these parties is significant, giving rise to calls for electoral reform in the province of BC.
The NDP of BC are led by Joy McPhail[?].
See also: New Democratic Party of Canada, BC Liberal Party, Green Party of British Columbia
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