The initiative was incredibly unpopular, however, and the labour-allied NDP lost a majority of its union support, including Buzz Hargrove and the Canadian Auto Workers union. Support for the provincial party fell to 6% and contributed greatly to the decimation of the federal NDP in the 1993 federal election. The provincial NDP never recovered its past support when the 1995 election came around. The Liberal Party was initially the main beneficiary of the opposition to the Social Contract, but, ultimately, the Progressive Conservatives won the election. In that campaign, the NDP was reduced from a majority to a third party, a position from which they were not able to recover from until the 2018 election, when it became the Official Opposition because of the collapse of the Liberal Party.