The political parties with the largest representation in the current Chilean Congress are the centrist Christian Democrat Party and the conservative Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Demócrata Independiente ).

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

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.

Independent candidate David A. Bowers, a former Democrat, defeated incumbent Democrat Nelson Harris for Mayor in the May 2008 election with 53 % of the vote.

Incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine received 31 %, and Independent Chris Daggett received 8 %.

After the most recent council elections, the borough is currently controlled by the Labour Party. The number of councillors are as follows: Labour 34, Conservative 26, Independent 2, Liberal Democrat 1.

As of October 2008, the current membership of the Council is Conservative Party 33 ; Residents ' Association 12 ; Independent Local Residents 2 ; Labour Party 2 ; Hornchurch Residents 1 ; Rainham Residents 2 ; British National Party 1 ; Liberal Democrat 1.

As of November, 2008, 64 percent of registered voters in Lake Havasu City are Republican, 35 percent Democrat, and the remaining 1 percent Independent.

Republican City Council President John Lasley won the election with 48 % of the vote, to Democrat Roger Neal's 27 % and Independent George Piper's 25 %.

In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 47. 9 % of the vote here ( 3, 306 ballots cast ), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine who received 44. 6 % of the vote ( 3, 080 votes ) and 6. 4 % ( 445 votes ) for Independent candidate Christopher Daggett, with 6, 906 of Millburn's 13, 913 registered voters ( 49. 6 %) participating.

In the ensuing general election, Choi did not face a Republican candidate, but instead faced a former Democrat turned Independent, William ( Bill ) Stephens.

In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 61. 9 % of the vote in the township ( 7, 581 cast ), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 32. 6 % ( 3, 995 votes ) and Independent Chris Daggett with 4. 8 % ( 536 votes ), with 12, 251 of the township's 26, 168 registered voters participating, for a turnout of 46. 8 %.

In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 58. 5 % of the vote ( 7, 355 ballots cast ), outpolling Democrat Jon Corzine with 36. 1 % ( 4, 541 votes ) and Independent Chris Daggett with 4. 2 % ( 533 ), with 12, 570 of 26, 863 registered voters ( 46. 8 %) participating.

In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 58. 5 % of the vote ( 3, 550 ballots cast ), leading Democrat Jon Corzine who received around 33. 1 % ( 2, 008 votes ) and Independent Christopher Daggett who took 6. 9 % ( 420 votes ), with 6, 073 of the 11, 127 registered voters in the township participating, yielding a 54. 6 % turnout rate.

In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 54. 9 % of the vote ( 10, 528 ballots cast ), outpolling Democrat Jon Corzine with 30. 8 % ( 5, 910 votes ) and Independent Chris Daggett with 2. 6 % ( 502 ), with 19, 171 of 37, 928 registered voters ( 50. 5 %) participating.

In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 59. 5 % of the vote ( 6, 124 ballots cast ), leading Democrat Jon Corzine who received around 25. 6 % ( 2, 639 votes ) and Independent Christopher Daggett who took 13. 9 % ( 1, 427 votes ), with 10, 293 of the 18, 244 registered voters in the township participating, yielding a 56. 4 % turnout rate.

In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 61. 7 % of the vote ( 9, 542 ballots cast ), leading Democrat Jon Corzine who received around 29. 0 % ( 4, 491 votes ) and Independent Christopher Daggett who took 8. 0 % ( 1, 238 votes ), with 15, 462 of the 27, 822 registered voters in the township participating, yielding a 55. 6 % turnout rate.

In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 74 % of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received 16 % ( Independent Ralph Nader received the last 10 %).

On November 6, 2007, McGuire ( Independent ) defeated incumbent mayor Daniel Gieringer ( Democrat ) by a vote of 58. 7 % to 41. 3 %.

Party registration as of July 2010 were 45 % Republican, 39 % Democrat, and 16 % Independent and third parties.

Against the advice of his doctors, George campaigned for New York City mayor again during 1897, this time as an Independent Democrat.

Sometime in the 1970s, Ashcroft recorded a gospel record entitled TRUTH: Volume One, Edition One with Missouri legislator Max Bacon, a Democrat.

Since becoming a city in 1960, the political power was balanced until the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Republicans led by Mayor Anthony DePaola dominated until 1983 when Democrat John Jaworski was elected mayor.

She became active in politics as a Democrat in the 1970s, and was involved in the later campaigns of former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey.

In college, Coleman was a liberal Democrat and was actively involved in the anti-war movement of the early 1970s.

The liberal leaders of the 1960s, characteristic of the era of the Great Society and the civil rights movement, gave way to conservative urban politicians in the 1970s across the country, such as New York Mayor Ed Koch, a conservative Democrat.

Many of them ( former party leader António Sousa Franco, party co-founder Magalhães Mota, writer and feminist Natália Correia ) supported the Opções Inadiáveis ( Pressing Options ) manifesto, and then left to create the Independent Social Democrat Association ( Associação Social Democrata Independente, ASDI ) and the Social Democrat Movement ( Movimento Social Democrata, MSD ), forming electoral coalitions ( later fusioning to ) the Socialist Party during the 1970s – 1980s.

He was a Glasgow City Councillor ( Liberal ) for a few years in the 1970s and 1980s, and has been Convener of the Scottish Liberal Democrat Policy Committee since the early 1990s.

* John J. Gilligan, who was elected Governor of Ohio as a Democrat in 1970s.

The chair of Obermayer's litigation committee Thomas Leonard ( and a prominent Democrat who served as the city's controller in the 1990s ) attended law school with Fumo at Temple University in the 1970s and both have remained friends since then including working on fundraising for democratic candidates.

During the 1970s, for example, its clients included Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart, large brokerage Stephens Inc., Worthen Bank, and the Arkansas Democrat and other Hussman family media holdings.

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.

At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.

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.

Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

He defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a landslide, with an electoral margin of 442 to 89, marking the first Republican return to the White House in 20 years.

In the 1960 election to choose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat John F. Kennedy.

As a Republican La Guardia had to support Harding in 1920 ; he had to be silent in the 1928 campaign although he favored Al Smith, a Democrat.

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.

In New York, the Tammany Hall Democrats, after vacillating, decided that they would gain more from supporting a Democrat they disliked than a Republican who would do nothing for them.

Hoover briefly considered becoming a Democrat, but he believed that 1920 would be a Republican year.

Hoover campaigned for efficiency and the Republican record of prosperity against Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

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

Although Gresham was a Republican, he had supported Cleveland ( a Democrat ) in the 1892 election because of his intense dislike for the Republican nominee, President Benjamin Harrison.

However, the news media also show a remarkable degree of centrism, just because all outlets but one are located – from an ideological point of view-between the average Democrat and average Republican in Congress.

According to Puglisi, in the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it also gives more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican.

Bono ran for the Republican nomination for United States Senate in 1992, but the nomination went to the more conservative Bruce Herschensohn, and the election to the Democrat Barbara Boxer.

Conservative talk show hosts also lent their unified support for Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, a conservative third-party candidate who was running in New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009 against a liberal Republican ( Dierdre Scozzafava ) and a mainstream Democrat ( Bill Owens ).

He lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson, as the Taft conservatives gained control of the Republican party for decades to come.

In a two-party system, voters have mostly two options ; in this sample ballot for an election in Summit, New Jersey | Summit, New Jersey, voters can choose between a Republican or Democrat, but there are no third party candidates.

Politically-oriented people consider their only realistic way to capture political power is to be either a Republican or Democrat.

His father-in-law was a prominent Democrat in St. Louis, a factor that helped derail Grant's bid to become county engineer in 1859, while his own father was an outspoken Republican in Galena.

The candidate running against Democrat James Traficant, a conservative Democrat with no Republican opposition that year, received 9 %.