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Nominated Federal Aboriginal Canadidates
June 23, 2008 - 8:36am
According to this site, there are 10 aboriginal candidates nominated so far for the next federal election: 5 NDP, 3 Liberal (including two current MPs), and 2 Conservatives (including one current MP).
Except if we only defined winnable as having placed 2nd last time, then several seats actually won by the NDP in recent elections would not have been "winnable" by that definition.
In my lifetime, the NDP has held Kenora (1984), Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River (1988), and Nunavut (1980) federally, and Guelph provincially (in the 1990 provincial).
If the NDP is on an uptick, then they could be pretty good ridings.
It will be interesting to test that theory in the upcoming Guelph by-election, I think.