She was a social conservative and a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

Twenty-eight Labour MPs eventually joined the new party, along with one member of the Conservative Party, Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler.

These included former Communist Party of Great Britain member Sue Slipman as well as Conservative party members including Adair Turner, Anna Soubry and Tom Hayhoe.

The third earl ( a member of the Conservative Party ) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers to remain under an amendment to Labour's 1999 House of Lords Act.

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

Baljit Singh Gosal, a Conservative Party MP from Ontario is the Minister of State for Sport in the Canadian Federal Government. Vic Dhillon is a Sikh Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

He was a Conservative Party member who resigned from public life in 1846.

In Britain after 1832 the Tory Party was replaced by the Conservative Party, and " Tory " has become shorthand for a member of the Conservative Party or for the party in general.

In Canada, the term " Tory " may describe any member of the Conservative Party of Canada, its predecessor party the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, or any similar affiliated conservative provincial party ; the term is frequently used in contrast to " Grit ", a shorthand for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Thus, for an American to say that he or she is a member of the Democratic or Republican party, is quite different from a Briton's stating that he or she is a member of the Conservative or Labour party.

Powell replied she was correct to exclude him: " In the first place I am not a member of the Conservative Party and secondly, until the Conservative Party has worked its passage a very long way it will not be rejoining me ".

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

Lloyd George was returned as Liberal MP for Carnarvon Boroughs — by a margin of 19 votes — on 13 April 1890 at a by-election caused by the death of the former Conservative member.

One Progressive Conservative senator, Gerry St. Germain, joined the new party in October 2000, becoming the Alliance's only member of the Senate.

As of March 4, 2012, there are 17 Republicans, 6 Democrats and 1 Conservative member who caucuses with the Republicans.

" was quoted with regard to Lord Cranborne, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed from his Conservative Party office in the House of Lords for conducting unauthorised negotiations with the Labour government.

However, the Majority Caucus which controls 12 seats in the 15-member Legislature includes one member of the New York State Conservative Party and one member of the New York State Independence Party.

The current member of Parliament is John Stevenson – Conservative

In 2003 the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives merged to create the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Stephen Harper, a member of the Alliance Church, who went on to become prime minister in 2006.

He said he was `` confessing that I was a member of the Socialist Party in 1910 ''.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

The United Progressive Party government was re-elected with nine seats and supported by the sole member from Barbuda, affiliated to the Barbuda People's Movement.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers ' Party ( DAP ) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919.

Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.

Presenting himself as a moderate and a member of the New Democrat wing of the Democratic Party, he headed the moderate Democratic Leadership Council in 1990 and 1991.

* Bourbon Democrat, from 1876 to 1904 a conservative member of the US Democratic Party

He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.

The CSU is a member of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and its MEPs sit in the EPP Group.

On 5 May 1933 he became a member of the Nazi Party.

Communists have played an active role in the organisation, and John Cox, its chairman from 1971 to 1977, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Chiang was an influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen.

Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.

It became virtually impossible to join the Soviet ruling and managing elite without being a member of the Communist Party.

Children would join the Young Pioneers and then, at the age of 14, might graduate to the Komsomol ( Young Communist League ) and ultimately, as an adult, if one had shown the proper adherence to party discipline or had the right connections one would become a member of the Communist Party itself.

Trumbo was a member of the Communist Party USA from 1943 until 1948.

* A member of a Democratic Party ; including:

She became a member of the Communist Party in 1938, and married Deng a year later in front of Mao's cave dwelling in Yan ' an.

* 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.

Pastrana is a member of the board of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and the Honorary president of the Union of Latin American Parties ( UPLA ).

Pastrana is also a member of the Club de Madrid, a group of more than 80 former leaders of democratic countries, which works to strengthen democratic leadership worldwide.