This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

Canada, Ireland, and Portugal had right-wing political parties that defied categorization: the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ; Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Progressive Democrats in Ireland ; and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal.

He is generally unpopular among Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) voters and supporters.

The Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ; 民主進步黨 ) is a political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition.

On September 30, 2007, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party approved a resolution asserting a separate identity from China and called for the enactment of a new constitution for a " normal nation ".

On August 15, 2008 Chen resigned from the Democratic Progressive Party and apologized thus: " Today I have to say sorry to all of the DPP members and supporters.

For many years the Democratic Progressive Party officially recognized several factions within its membership, such as the New Tide faction ( 新潮流系 ), the Formosa faction ( 美麗島系 ), the Justice Alliance faction ( 正義連線系 ) and Welfare State Alliance faction ( 福利國系 ).

* 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party ( Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP ) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.

For the 1947 elections, anti-Yoshida forces left the Liberal Party and joined forces with the Progressive Party to establish the new Democratic Party ( Minshuto ).

Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.

Having achieved the political reforms it advocated the Progressive Party soon folded as an organisation, while the Democratic Movement, incorporating the tiny Communist Party of Jersey, continued in existence as a campaigning social movement until the late 20th century.

Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party was reelected twice as Mayor of Kaohsiung, where he was widely credited for transforming the city from an industrial sprawl into an attractive modern metropolis.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

He won a second term outright in the 2009 election as the head of a newly founded party, the Democratic Progressive Party.

In January 1980 after clashing with Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, Lopez was forced to resign the chairmanship of the New Democratic Party in exchange of the Governor becoming the President of Carter's campaign in Puerto Rico and throwing the New Progressive Party behind the president's re-election efforts.

* Congressional Progressive Caucus, members within the Democratic Party in the United States Congress dedicated to the advancment of progressive issues and positions

In the May 2007 National Assembly elections, Seychelles People's Progressive Front took 56. 2 % of votes and Seychelles National Party in coalition with Seychelles Democratic Party took 43. 8 %.

India too is showing characteristics of two party system with United Progressive Alliance ( UPA ) and National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) as the two main players.

* Canadian politics is radically altered in the 1993 federal election with the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, ( a major political party in Canada since 1867 ) from being government to only 2 seats and the New Democratic Party collapsing from 44 seats to 9.

The United States presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I and a hostile response to certain policies of Democratic president Woodrow Wilson, as well as the massive reaction against the reformist zeal of the Progressive Era.

In 1917, neither the Republican nor the Democratic candidate could attain a majority because 3 members of the Progressive Party and other single members of other parties voted for their own party.

In 1946, prior to the current ban on fusion being enacted in that state, Republican Governor of California Earl Warren ( a future Chief Justice of the United States ) managed to win the nominations of the Republican, Democratic, and Progressive Parties.

There is a standing alliance between the Democratic Party and the Progressive Party for State Senate races, which has given the Progressives two State Senators, Tim Ashe and Anthony Pollina.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

Secretary Goldberg and Sen. Morse will hold a joint press conference at the Roosevelt Hotel at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Blaine Whipple, executive secretary of the Democratic Party of Oregon, reported Tuesday.

" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.

In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.

Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing parties, and split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding an end to its expansion.

Southern demands for a slave code to ensure slavery in the territories repeatedly split the Democratic Party between North and South by widening margins.

In 1860, the last national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.

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

His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party.

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

In the presidential election in 1848, the Democratic Party split over the slavery issue, with the abolitionists leaving the party and forming the Free Soil Party, and making Martin Van Buren their nominee.

The moderates ' efforts to compromise with Johnson failed, and a political war ensued between the Republicans ( both radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic Party in the North and the conservative groupings in the South.

Vice President Spiro Agnew urged Capp to run in the Democratic Party Massachusetts primary in 1970 against Ted Kennedy, but Capp ultimately declined.

The Youth International Party ( YIP ) and Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) emerged in Li ' l Abner as " Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything!

The logo followed a template very similar to the Democratic Party of the Left, with the previous logo in a small circle, as a means of legally preventing others from using it.

The present Mayor is Élio Manuel Delgado da Maia, elected by a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre.