At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention to the creation of a welfare state.

At the 1922 and 1923 elections the Liberals won barely a third of the vote and only a quarter of the seats in the House of Commons, as many radical voters abandoned the divided Liberals and went over to Labour.

At the 1945 general election, Sinclair and many of his colleagues lost their seats to both Conservatives and Labour, and the party returned just 12 MPs to Westminster.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

At the time, he admired Ramsay MacDonald and helped MacDonald get elected as Labour Party leader at the 1922 Labour leadership election.

At its 1982 conference, the Labour Party adopted a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

At the founding congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( the predecessor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) Vladimir Lenin was able to gain enough support for the establishment of an all-powerful central organ at the next congress.

At this point a transfer pact was decided upon between Fine Gael and Labour, as both parties were normally preferred partners for each other in general elections.

At the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party he was elected in absentia as a member of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.

At an early stage, the Albanian Party of Labour sided with the CPC.

At Oxford, Wilson was moderately active in politics as a member of the Liberal Party but was later influenced by G. D. H. Cole to join the Labour Party.

At the Labour Party's 1963 annual conference, Wilson made possibly his best-remembered speech, on the implications of scientific and technological change, in which he argued that " the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated measures on either side of industry ".

At the 1979 general election the party's vote share declined from 10. 8 % to 8. 1 % and Carmarthen was again lost to Labour.

At the same time, Labour leader and First Minister Alun Michael was replaced by Rhodri Morgan.

At the 1997 general election, Gabriel declared his support for the Labour Party, which won that election by a landslide after 18 years out of power, led by Tony Blair.

At the next election in 1967 the unpopularity of the national Labour government produced a massive Conservative victory with 82 seats, to Labour's 18.

At a pre-arranged meeting of the new Councillors the day after the election, the Left faction won a complete victory over the less-organised Labour right.

At the May 2011 local elections, seven Conservatives, three independents, two Liberal Democrats, two Labour and one Green were elected ( there was one vacant seat ).

At the May, 2007 local elections, Labour lost ground to the Greens in Lancaster and the MBIs in Morecambe resulting in a no overall control, with all parties represented in a PR administration.

At the same election Labour took control of Ealing Council from the Conservatives with a major swing against the Tories, which conflicted with the nationwide swing in the General Election.

At the Barking and Dagenham Council election on 4 May 2006 the Labour Party were returned with 36 councillors.

At the 2010 Lambeth Council election Labour gained seats and the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Green party lost seats.

At the borough elections held on 6 May 2010 the Labour Party won all 60 of the seats on the Council.

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

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

At a meeting of the Party in Munich in September 1919, the main speaker was Gottfried Feder.

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

At the same time, the Communist Party of Kampuchea forces became stronger and more independent of their Vietnamese patrons.

At the 9th Party Congress the Democratic Centralists, an opposition faction within the party, accused Lenin and his associates, of creating a Central Committee in which a " small handful of party oligarchs ... was banning those who hold deviant views.

At the 14th Party Congress ( 18 – 31 December 1925 ) Kamenev and Zinoviev were forced into the same position that Trotsky had been forced into previously ; they proclaimed that the center was usurping power from the regional branches, and that Stalin was a danger to inner-party democracy.

At the 15th Party Congress ( 2 – 19 December 1927 ) the Left Opposition was crushed ; none of its members were elected to the Central Committee.

At the 18th Party Congress ( 10 – 21 March 1939 ) the department specializing in industry was abolished and replaced by a division focusing on personnel management, ideology and verification fulfillment.

At the 18th Party Conference ( 15 – 20 February 1941 ) it was concluded that the abolition of the Central Committee Department on Industry had led to the neglect of industry.

At the 20th Party Congress Khrushchev, in his speech " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences ", stated that Stalin, the Stalinist cult of personality and Stalinist repression had deformed true Leninist legality.

At the 21st Party Congress Khrushchev boldly declared that Leninist legality had been reestablishing, when in reality, he himself was beginning to following some of the same policies, albeit not at the same level, as Stalin had.

At lower levels the organizational hierarchy was managed by Party Committees, or partkoms ( партком ).

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

At the time of the Lisbon Treaty ratification, they were actively campaigning against it, unlike the governing Civic Democratic Party, who endorsed it in the Chamber of Deputies.

At the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party which lasted from 26 February – 8 March 1948, Xoxe was implicated in a plot to isolate Hoxha and consolidate his own power.

At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union.

At the 1962 general election the Grenada National Party won a majority and Herbert Blaize became Chief Minister for the second time.

At all points West Germany was much larger and richer that East Germany, which became a dictatorship under the control of the Communist Party and was closely monitored by Moscow.

At the same time, an Islamist party, the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) and a Chinese socialist party, the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ), gained increasing support, at the expense of UMNO and the MCA respectively.