Olaussen – stationary engineer – NDP – Coast Chilcotin – MP 1972 (ran 1974, NDP lost) Stuart Malcolm Leggatt – lawyer – NDP – New Westminster – MP 1972, 1974, (retired 1979 to run provincially, NDP won) Pauline Jewett New Westminster-Coquitlam) Paddy Neale – secretary treasurer – NDP – Vancouver East – MP 1972 (ran 1974, NDP lost) Wally Firth – pilot – NDP – Northwest Territories – MP 1972, 1974, (retired 1979, NDP lost) John Rodriguez – teacher – NDP – Nickel Belt – MP 1972, 1974, 1979 (ran 1980, NDP lost), returned 1984, 1988 (ran 1993, NDP lost) Cyril Symes – teacher – NDP – Sault Ste Marie – MP 1972, 1974, 1979 (ran 1980, NDP lost) John Paul Harney – college teacher – NDP – Scarborough West – MP 1972 (ran 1974, NDP lost) Terry Grier – lecturer – NDP – Toronto Lakeshore – MP 1972 (ran 1974, NDP lost) Eli Nesdoly – school principal – NDP – Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan – MP 1972 (ran 1974, NDP lost) 1974 general election The party won a total of 16 seats in the 1974 election, including one member elected for the first time: Andy Hogan – Roman Catholic priest & economist – NDP – Cape Breton East Richmond, Nova Scotia – MP 1974, 1979 (ran 1980, NDP lost) 1978 by-elections Two New Democrats were elected in by-elections in 1978, one to replace an NDP MP who retired, giving the party a total of 17 MPs: Fonse Faour – lawyer – NDP – Humber-St.George's-St. Barbe, Newfoundland – MP 1978 Humber-Port Au Port-St. Barbe 1979 (ran 1980, NDP lost) Bob Rae – law graduate, former Ontario NDP Premier 1990–1995, Ontario NDP Leader 1982–1996, former NDP MPP York South 1982–1996 – NDP – Broadview – MP 1978, Broadview-Greenwood 1979, 1980 (resigned 1982 to become Ontario NDP leader, NDP won Lynn McDonald, Rae served as Ontario Premier 1990–1995, returned to parliament as a Liberal MP 2008 by-election, became Liberal leader 2011) 1979 general election The party won a total of 26 seats in the 1979 election, including thirteen members elected for the first time: Svend Robinson – lawyer – NDP – Burnaby – MP 1979, 1980, 1984, Burnaby Kingsway 1988, 1993, Burnaby Douglas 1997, 2000 (resigned 2004, NDP won) Ray Skelly – teacher – NDP – Comox-Powell River – MP 1979, 1980, 1984, North Island-Powell River 1988 (ran 1993, NDP lost) Ted Miller