Council members whose terms end in 2013 are Republican Devin Rhyne of Ward I and Democrat Carroll Heavner of Ward III.

Council members whose terms end in 2011 are Ward III Democrat John " Les " Cloninger ( the mayor pro tem ) and Ward IV Democrat Larry Mac Hovis.

* State Representative Joseph F. Brennan, Democrat, 133rd district, Ward 1

The residents of Cirencester also voted in 18 year old Liberal Democrat candidate Joe Harris, who became the youngest Councillor in the country in May 2011 when elected for Cirencester Park Ward.

The increasing dominance of local politics in Watford Borough council by the Liberal Democrats, including the election of a Liberal Democrat Mayor, led to speculation that Ward would find re-election extremely difficult.

However, she managed to hold off a strong Liberal Democrat challenge from Sal Brinton ; despite a 12 % swing against her, Ward held the seat with a majority of 1, 148 votes, approximately 2. 3 % of the electorate.

Bradford East is represented by David Ward ( Liberal Democrat ), Bradford West is represented by George Galloway ( Respect ), Bradford South is represented by Gerry Sutcliffe ( Labour ), Shipley is represented by Philip Davies ( Conservative ), and

The Acocks Green Ward is currently represented by two Labour councillors, Stewart Stacey and John O ' Shea, plus one Liberal Democrat councillor at Birmingham City Council ; Iain Bowen.

He was first elected as Liberal Democrat councillor for the Stoneygate Ward in Leicester and was elected to the House of Commons at the Leicester South by-election on 15 July 2004.

In Indiana there are several legally incorporated organizations with " Democrat " as part of their official name, such as the " Indianapolis, 17th Ward Democrat Club Inc ." and the " Andrew Jackson Democrat Club Of Tippecanoe County.

After defeating Marlow Cook in the Republican gubernatorial primary, he eked out a victory over Democrat Henry Ward.

Nunn then faced Democrat Henry Ward in the general election.

As of 2010 the Ward of Skelton, Rawcliffe and Clifton Without is represented by Councillors Richard Moore and Irene Waudby of the local Liberal Democrat Party and by Joe Watt of the local Conservative party.

The Liberals were unexpectedly defeated in the 1990 provincial election, and Neumann lost his seat to New Democrat Brad Ward.

The last of the accused to remain in office, Senator Ward Crutchfield, Democrat of Chattanooga, pleads guilty four days before his trial was to begin.

* David Ward ( politician ) ( born 1953 ), British Liberal Democrat politician, MP for Bradford East

As of 2005, the three councillors representing Sheldon Ward on Birmingham City Council are Sue Anderson, Paul Tilsley and Mike Ward, all of the Liberal Democrat Party.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

Under any name -- Mr. Speaker, Mr. Democrat, Mr. Sam -- he was a good man.

Instead of holding Lincoln in contempt of court as was expected, the judge, a Democrat, reversed his ruling, allowing the evidence and acquitting Harrison.

A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

In 1999, Love stated that she was a Democrat.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

Stewart and Harlan were conservative Republicans, while Brennan was a Democrat who became a leading voice for liberalism.

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

In March 1976, the Federation of Liberal and Democrat Parties in Europe was established, which gradually evolved into the ELDR Party with a matching group in the European Parliament, the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

The Christian Democrat group was the biggest group at formation, but as time wore on it lost support and was the second-biggest group by the time of the 1979 elections.

The new Senate was formed in March 1917 by Social Democrat and trade union leader Oskari Tokoi.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, former foreign affairs minister, was the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor in 2009

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

* Johnny Ford ( born August 1942 ), American political figure ; Democrat, later Republican ; became Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972

Lynch was the only Democrat elected to statewide office.

A leftist coalition in the Rīga City Council elected Gundars Bojārs, a Social Democrat, to the office of mayor.

He was soon elected as a National Liberal to the Reichstag for Bennigsen's old and supposedly safe Hamburg seat, but was embarrassed by being forced to a second ballot by a Social Democrat rival, and never actually took up his seat.

In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, was elected with 41 % of the popular vote ; Roosevelt got 27 %, and Taft garnered 25 %.

Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, a former President, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

Daley's career in politics began when he became a Democratic precinct captain ; although he was a lifelong Democrat, Daley was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and delegate to the 1880 and 1884 Democratic National Conventions.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

He was the first Democrat elected senator from the state of Minnesota since before the Civil War.

Running as a Democrat, Thurmond was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1946, largely on the promise of making state government more transparent and accountable by weakening the power of a group of politicians from Barnwell, which Thurmond dubbed the Barnwell Ring, led by House Speaker Solomon Blatt.

Two rival delegations — one Whig and the other Democrat — had been certified as elected by different branches of the New Jersey government.

Brooklyn's current Borough President is Marty Markowitz, elected as a Democrat in 2001 and re-elected in 2005, and 2009.