The New Democratic Party ran a full slate of candidates in the 1980 Canadian federal election, and won 32 seats to remain the third-largest party in the House of Commons of Canada. Information about the party's candidates may be found here.
Rural Alberta
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Athabasca | Harry W. Daniels | | | | 4,218 | 15.07 | 3rd |
| Bow River | David Radke | | | | 2,802 | 7.05 | 3rd |
| Crowfoot | Roger Milbrandt | | | | 1,912 | 6.24 | 3rd |
| Lethbridge–Foothills | Dave Porteous | | | | 3,974 | 9.98 | 3rd |
| Medicine Hat | Agnes Wiley | | | | 3,453 | 9.37 | 3rd |
| Peace River | Earle Joseph Guertin | | | | 5,436 | 17.02 | 3rd |
| Pembina | Martin Davis | | | | 5,260 | | 3rd |
| Red Deer | Ethel Taylor | | | | 3,345 | 7.9 | 3rd |
| Vegreville | Henry Mandelbaum | | | | 3,172 | | 3rd |
| Wetaskiwin | Lyle B. Bleich | | | | 3,673 | 10.3 | 3rd |
| Yellowhead | Laird Mitchell | | | | 4,562 | 11.3 | 3rd |
British Columbia Interior
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Burnaby | Svend Robinson | Member of Parliament for Burnaby (1979–1988) | | Lawyer | 21,587 | 42.43 | 1st |
| Capilano | Andy J. Krawczyk | | | | 6,495 | 14.64 | 3rd |
| Fraser Valley East | Harry W. Fontaine | | | | 10,695 | 24.18 | 2nd |
| Fraser Valley West | Joe Leclair | | | | 16,568 | 32.55 | 2nd |
| Mission—Port Moody | Mark Rose | | | | 23,224 | 47.19 | 1st |
| New Westminster—Coquitlam | Pauline Jewett | Member of Parliament for New Westminster—Coquitlam (1979–1988) | | President of Simon Fraser University (1974–1978) | 19,498 | 46.42 | 1st |
| North Vancouver—Burnaby | Jack Woodward | | | | 11,820 | 26.85 | 3rd |
| Richmond—South Delta | Mercia Stickney | | | | 13,606 | 24.23 | 2nd |
| Surrey—White Rock—North Delta | Carol Langford | | | | 19,051 | | 2nd |
| Vancouver Centre | Ron Johnson | | | | 14,830 | 31.77 | 2nd |
| Vancouver East | Margaret Anne Mitchell | Member of Parliament for Vancouver East (1979–1993) | | | 14,245 | 43.91 | 1st |
| Vancouver Kingsway | Ian Waddell | Member of Parliament for Vancouver Kingsway (1979–1988) | | | 16,928 | 46.85 | 1st |
| Vancouver Quadra | Alan Bush | | | | 9,907 | 21.75 | 3rd |
| Vancouver South | Judy McManus | | | | 8,896 | 21.27 | 3rd |
Rural Manitoba
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Carleton—Charlotte | Arthur Slipp | | | | 4,680 | 15.2 | 3rd |
| Fundy—Royal | George Little | | | | 8,668 | 21.06 | 3rd |
| Gloucester | Kevin O'Connell | | | | 4,484 | 12.84 | 3rd |
| Madawaska—Victoria | James Aucoin | | | | 2,943 | 11.3 | 3rd |
| Moncton | Gregory Murphy | | | | 7,791 | 16.71 | 3rd |
| Northumberland—Miramichi | Jerry Dunnett | | | | 4,694 | 17.38 | 3rd |
| Restigouche | Aurele Ferlatte | | | | 4,457 | 16.5 | 3rd |
| Saint John | David M. Brown | | | | 5,978 | 18.9 | 3rd |
| Westmorland—Kent | René Vannieuwenhuizen | | | | 5,255 | 16.31 | 3rd |
| York—Sunbury | Phillip Booker | | | | 5,567 | 14.55 | 3rd |
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Annapolis Valley—Hants | Bob Levy | | | | 10,338 | 25.29 | 3rd |
| Cape Breton—East Richmond | Andrew Hogan | | | | 12,184 | | 2nd |
| Cape Breton Highlands—Canso | William J. Woodfine | | | | 4,902 | | 3rd |
| Cape Breton—The Sydneys | Ed Murphy | | | | 10,180 | | 2nd |
| Central Nova | Gary A. Chambers | | | | 5,743 | 17.71 | 3rd |
| Cumberland—Colchester | Hayden Trenholm | | | | 7,111 | 17.86 | 3rd |
| Dartmouth—Halifax East | Nelson Reed | | | | 8,764 | 20.41 | 3rd |
| Halifax | Alexa McDonough | | | | 8,009 | 19.67 | 3rd |
| Halifax West | Dennis Theman | | | | 10,043 | 20.91 | 3rd |
| South Shore | John Yates | | | | 5,856 | 16.11 | 3rd |
| South West Nova | John Lee | | | | 4,922 | 12.80 | 3rd |
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Cardigan | Aubrey Cantelo | | | | 1,054 | 5.91 | 3rd |
| Egmont | Vincent Gallant | | | | 824 | 5.00 | 3rd |
| Hillsborough | Bob Crockett | | | | 1,245 | 8.32 | 3rd |
| Malpeque | Vic Arsenault | | | | 1,216 | 7.19 | 3rd |
Central Quebec
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Beauce | Luc Pepin | | | | 404 | 0.9 | 5th |
| Beauharnois—Salaberry | Michael Wiltshire | | | | 2,738 | 7.3 | 3rd |
| Brome—Missisquoi | Gertrude Lefebvre-Brown | | | | 1,508 | 4.00 | 3rd |
| Châteauguay | William W. Evans | | | | 4,203 | | 2nd |
| Drummond | André Lefebvre | | | | 2,305 | 6.4 | 3rd |
| Frontenac | Jean-Denis Lavigne[1] | | | | 1,693 | | 4th |
| Lotbinière | Jean-Denis Lavigne | | | | 3,041 | | 4th |
| Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead | Keith Taylor | | | | 1,769 | | 4th |
| Richmond—Wolfe | André Cardinal | | | | 1,477 | | 3rd |
| Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot | Diane Lemieux | | | | 2,257 | 5.4 | 3rd |
| Saint-Jean | Roger Roy | | | | 5,194 | 12.4 | 2nd |
| Shefford | Denis Boissé | | | | 3,701 | 7.81 | 3rd |
| Sherbrooke | Yves Dubois | | | | 3,777 | 10.0 | 2nd |
| Verchères | Chislaine Gagnon | | | | 7,015 | 12.8 | 2nd |
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Blainville—Deux-Montagnes | Normand J. Labrie | | | | 5,460 | | 2nd |
| Bourassa | Roderick Charters | | | | 5,144 | 12.7 | 2nd |
| Chambly | Dominique Vaillancourt | | | | 5,868 | 12.48 | 2nd |
| Dollard | Pierre Bourgeois | | | | 5,767 | 11.65 | 2nd |
| Duvernay | John Shatilla | | | | 5,069 | 10.62 | 3rd |
| Gamelin | Mariette Caron-Denis | | | | 4,506 | | 2nd |
| Hochelaga—Maisonneuve | Marie-Ange Gagnon-Sirois | | | | 2,732 | | 2nd |
| Lachine | Buff Norman | | | | 3,492 | | 3rd |
| Lasalle | Gaston Coté | | | | | | 2nd |
| Laurier | Jean-Pierre Bourdouxhe | | | | 2,216 | | 3rd |
| Laval | Lauraine Vaillancourt | | | | 5,709 | | 2nd |
| Laval-des-Rapides | Martin Vaillancourt | | | | 4,699 | | 2nd |
| La Prairie | Jean-Claude Bohrer | | | | 5,894 | | 2nd |
| Longueuil | Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt | | | | 6,144 | 12.9 | 2nd |
| Montreal–Mercier | Pierre Dubé | | | | 4,258 | | 2nd |
| Sainte-Marie | Jean-Pierre Juneau | | | | 2,443 | 8.73 | 3rd |
| Mount Royal | David C. Winch | | | | 2,356 | 5.66 | 3rd |
| Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | Grendon Haines | | | | 4,482 | 11.55 | 3rd |
| Outremont | Claire A. Brisson | | | | 3,996 | 12.42 | 2nd |
| Papineau | Jean-Marc Dompierre | | | | 2,796 | 9.32 | 2nd |
| Rosemont | Marcel Julien | | | | 3,337 | 9.5 | 2nd |
| Saint-Henri—Westmount | Claude de Mestral | | | | 3,766 | | 3rd |
| Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic | Frank Reiss | | | | 3,422 | | 2nd |
| Saint-Léonard—Anjou | Filippo Salvatore | | | | 3,741 | | 2nd |
| Terrebonne | Gilles Bertrand | | | | 6,917 | 13.1 | 2nd |
| Vaudreuil | Lorne Brown | | | | 7,309 | | 2nd |
Northern Quebec
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Bellechasse | Napoléon Goupil | | | | 730 | 1.81 | 5th |
| Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine | John Foran | | | | 1,568 | | 3rd |
| Charlesbourg | Etienne Tremblay | | | | 7,388 | | 2nd |
| Gaspé | Yvon Pipon | | | | 1,018 | | 3rd |
| Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup | None | | | | – | – | – |
| Langelier | Edith Frankel | | | | 2,811 | 8.1 | 3rd |
| Lévis | Daniel Vachon | | | | 6,459 | | 2nd |
| Louis-Hébert | Robert Caron | | | | 7,392 | 13.98 | 2nd |
| Matapédia—Matane | Thérèse Beaulieu | | | | 888 | 3.3 | 5th |
| Montmorency—Orléans | Marcel Tremblay | | | | 3,049 | 7.53 | 3rd |
| Portneuf | Robert Ferland | | | | 3,285 | 8.3 | 2nd |
| Québec-Est | Maurice Vaney | | | | 3,327 | | 2nd |
| Rimouski | René Mcdonald | | | | 1,155 | | 4th |
Ontario
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Glengarry—Prescott—Russell | Claude Dion | | | | 4,781 | 11.6 | 3rd |
| Hastings—Frontenac | Kevin Arseneault | | | | 5,895 | | 3rd |
| Kingston and the Islands | Stephen Foster | | | | 7,830 | 18.0 | 3rd |
| Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton | Gord Gilhuly | | | | 4,948 | | 3rd |
| Leeds—Grenville | Mildred Smith | | | | 6,600 | 17.07 | 3rd |
| Nepean—Carleton | Alan White | | | | 7,187 | 12.2 | 3rd |
| Ottawa—Carleton | Don Francis | | | | 7,788 | | 3rd |
| Ottawa Centre | John Smart | | | | 7,529 | 15.96 | 3rd |
| Ottawa—Vanier | Jim Stark | | | | 5,721 | 13.80 | 3rd |
| Ottawa West | Abby Pollonetsky | | | | 5,955 | | 3rd |
| Prince Edward—Hastings | Donald Wilson | | | | 6,889 | 18.7 | 3rd |
| Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke | Don Breault | | | | 6,200 | 15.6 | 3rd |
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Beaches | Neil Young | | | | 12,675 | 35.6 | 1st |
| Brampton—Georgetown | David Moulton | | | | 11,978 | | 3rd |
| Broadview–Greenwood | Bob Rae | | | | 12,953 | 40.37 | 1st |
| Burlington | Danny Dunleavy | | | | 8,421 | 15.7 | 2nd |
| Davenport | Ed Brown | | | | 5,170 | 22.2 | 2nd |
| Don Valley East | Saul Paton | | | | 5,713 | 11.6 | 3rd |
| Don Valley West | Jonathan Lomas | | | | 4,702 | 9.6 | 3rd |
| Eglinton—Lawrence | Graham Murray | | | | 6,077 | 14.70 | 3rd |
| Etobicoke Centre | Dan Shipley | | | | 6,181 | 10.8 | 3rd |
| Etobicoke—Lakeshore | Terry Meagher | | | | 12,405 | 28.3 | 3rd |
| Etobicoke North | Adrian Dorn | | | | 10,237 | 20.0 | 3rd |
| Halton | Doug Black | | | | 8,455 | 16.0 | 3rd |
| Mississauga North | W. George Ross | | | | 11,729 | | 3rd |
| Mississauga South | Neil Davis | | | | 8,711 | 16.8 | 3rd |
| Ontario | Geoff Rison | | | | 12,812 | | 3rd |
| Oshawa | Ed Broadbent | | | | 26,761 | 51.6 | 1st |
| Parkdale—High Park | Doug Little | | | | 8,094 | 21.4 | 3rd |
| Rosedale | Jim Hockley | | | | 5,698 | 14.85 | 3rd |
| St. Paul's | James Lockyer | | | | 5,301 | 13.40 | 3rd |
| Scarborough Centre | Michael Prue | | | | 9,237 | 22.4 | 3rd |
| Scarborough East | Chris Bain | | | | 8,533 | | 3rd |
| Scarborough West | John Paul Harney | | | | 13,146 | 32.2 | 2nd |
| Spadina | John Foster | | | | 8,232 | | 2nd |
| Trinity | Manuel Azevedo | | | | 5,005 | | 2nd |
| Willowdale | Bob Hebdon | | | | 6,889 | 14.7 | 3rd |
| York Centre | Cris Liscio | | | | 7,696 | 20.3 | 2nd |
| York East | Kay MacPherson | | | | 7,997 | | 3rd |
| York North | Bruce Searle | | | | 8,933 | | 3rd |
| York—Peel | John Hall | | | | 8,708 | | 3rd |
| York—Scarborough | Vinc Overend | | | | 10,939 | | 3rd |
| York South—Weston | Vince Del Buono | | | | 9,280 | 26.5 | 2nd |
| York West | Elio Costa | | | | 8,884 | 23.6 | 3rd |
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Algoma | Jim Dinner | | | | 11,262 | 32.65 | 2nd |
| Cochrane—Superior | Robert Fortin | | | | 10,814 | | 2nd |
| Kenora—Rainy River | John Edmund Parry | | | | 14,322 | | 2nd |
| Nickel Belt | John Rodriguez | | | | 17,529 | 42.06 | 2nd |
| Nipissing | Art Peltomaa | | | | 4,515 | | 3rd |
| Parry Sound—Muskoka | Dennis Hay | | | | 7,603 | 22.3 | 3rd |
| Sault Ste. Marie | Cyril Symes | | | | 12,542 | 38.94 | 2nd |
| Thunder Bay—Atikokan | Iain Angus | | | | 13,150 | 39.0 | 2nd |
| Thunder Bay—Nipigon | Bruce McKay | | | | 12,950 | 36.4 | 2nd |
| Timiskaming | Arnold Peters | | | | 10,661 | | 2nd |
| Timmins—Chapleau | Bill Ferrier | | | | 10,745 | | 2nd |
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Brant | Derek Blackburn | | | | 19,194 | 41.1 | 1st |
| Bruce—Grey | Malcolm A. Kennett | | | | 4,391 | 11.3 | 3rd |
| Cambridge | Mike Farnan | | | | 11,346 | 31.2 | 2nd |
| Elgin | Gary Johnson | | | | 12,410 | | 2nd |
| Essex—Kent | David Wurfel | | | | 5,083 | | 3rd |
| Essex—Windsor | Steven W. Langdon | | | | 19,123 | 39.8 | 2nd |
| Guelph | Jim Finamore | | | | 9,765 | 22.17 | 3rd |
| Haldimand—Norfolk | Norm Walpole | | | | 6,937 | 15.7 | 3rd |
| Huron—Bruce | Tony McQuail | | | | 3,864 | 11.1 | 3rd |
| Kent | George McDermott | | | | 5,758 | | 3rd |
| Kitchener | James Herman | | | | 11,494 | | 3rd |
| Lambton—Middlesex | Grant Reynolds | | | | 4,617 | | 3rd |
| London East | Rob Martin | | | | 8,055 | 21.7 | 3rd |
| London—Middlesex | Bill Lloyd | | | | 8,672 | | 3rd |
| London West | Paddy Musson | | | | 8,817 | 14.4 | 3rd |
| Oxford | Marjorie Lanaway | | | | 6,885 | 16.3 | 3rd |
| Perth | John Davies | | | | 4,635 | | 3rd |
| Sarnia—Lambton | Wally Krawczyk | | | | 9,809 | 24.4 | 3rd |
| Waterloo | Bob Needham | | | | 9,819 | 19.06 | 3rd |
| Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe | Cecil Chambers | | | | 5,966 | | 3rd |
| Windsor—Walkerville | John Moynahan | | | | 14,460 | | 2nd |
| Windsor West | Maxine Jones | | | | 9,785 | 28.98 | 2nd |
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Assiniboia | Randy MacKenzie | | | | 9,710 | | 3rd |
| Humboldt—Lake Centre | Vic Althouse | | | Farmer | 13,243 | | 1st |
| Kindersley—Lloydminster | Wayne G. Nargang | | | | 9,589 | | 2nd |
| Mackenzie | Lars Elroy Bracken | | | | 10,435 | | 2nd |
| Moose Jaw | David H. Henley | | | | 10,641 | | 2nd |
| Prince Albert | Stan Hovdebo | Member of Parliament for Prince Albert (1979–1988) | | | 11,601 | 34.8 | 1st |
| Qu'Appelle—Moose Mountain | Mel W.R. McCorriston | | | | 7,872 | | 2nd |
| Regina East | Simon De Jong | Member of Parliament for Regina East (1979–1988) | | | 13,630 | | 1st |
| Regina West | Les Benjamin | Member of Parliament for Regina West (1979–1988) Member of Parliament for Regina—Lake Centre (1968–1979) | | | 17,353 | | 1st |
| Saskatoon East | Bob Ogle | | | Roman Catholic priest | 12,985 | | 1st |
| Saskatoon West | Reg Parker | | | | 14,852 | | 2nd |
| Swift Current—Maple Creek | Ron Gates | | | | 8,338 | | 2nd |
| The Battlefords—Meadow Lake | Doug Anguish | | | | 9,819 | | 1st |
| Yorkton—Melville | Lorne Nystrom | Member of Parliament for Yorkton—Melville (1968–1993) | | | 15,240 | 45.7 | 1st |
References
- ^ Due to the death of Social Credit candidate Nelson Lassard, the election in Frontenac scheduled for February 18 was postponed until March 24
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