By The Canadian Press with files from Steve Lambert

Rachel Notley Now the Lone NDP Premier in Canada

Apr 20, 2016 | 6:47 AM

WINNIPEG:  Tuesday night’s results from the Manitoba election has left Alberta’s Rachel Notley as the last sitting New Democrat premier in Canada.

Brian Pallister and his Progressive Conservatives have won a majority government in Manitoba to end 16 years of N-D-P rule and prompting premier Greg Selinger to announce he’ll step down as party leader,  although he will stay on as member of the legislature for St. Boniface.

It’s the latest blow to the party after the federal New Democrats were reduced from Official Opposition to third-party status in the October election.

The pundits, the pollsters and even rebels within Greg Selinger’s NDP caucus warned that Tuesday night’s sweeping election loss might happen.

Voter anger over Selinger’s 2013 sales tax hike never faded and attempts to warm voters to Selinger through a series of campaign ads didn’t appear to work.

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The NDP had been low in opinion polls since the sales tax hike, and a rebellion by five cabinet ministers in 2014 didn’t help. They went public with demands for Selinger to resign, warning that the party was headed for electoral annihilation.

Selinger barely survived the coup, and now that he is leaving the party helm, NDP officials will meet to plan a leadership vote, likely next spring.