David Hall (born ) was a Canadian politician who was the first leader of the

Prince Edward Island New Democratic Party The New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island (NDP PEI) is a social democratic political party in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). CCF The NDP's predecessor, the Co-operati ...

in 1972.Leo Heaps, ''Our Canada: The Story of the New Democratic Party Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow''. Lorimer, 1991. . He previously ran as the party's candidate in Hillsborough in the 1968 federal election. Under Hall's leadership, the party contested three provincial

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...

s in 1972 — its first attempt at running for provincial seats since the

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last competed in 1951 — and received 5.2 per cent of the total vote. Soon afterward, however, Hall moved out of the province and resigned the leadership. He was succeeded as leader by

Aquinas Ryan Aquinas Ryan (1932 or 1933 – 3 March 2017) was a Canadian politician and educator who was leader of the Prince Edward Island New Democratic Party from 1972 to 1979.Leo Heaps, ''Our Canada: The Story of the New Democratic Party Yesterday, Today ...

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