Most opposition parties boycotted the first legislative election in 1992, and for nearly a decade the Democratic and Social Republican Party ( PRDS ) dominated the parliament.

Modern Democratic theories and implementations, especially after Montesquieu's theories, rely on the separation of powers: Executive ( government and police ), legislative ( parliament ) and judicial ( court ) branches of power are separated.

In 1983 he was called upon by Democratic Governor Mark White to help improve the quality of the state's public education, and ended up leading the effort (" Select Committee on Public Education ") to reform the school system, which resulted in major legislative changes.

The APRC maintained its strong majority in the National Assembly in legislative elections held in January 2002, particularly after the main opposition United Democratic Party ( UDP ) boycotted the legislative elections. Monument over the 1994 coup

On the state legislative level, Kingston has long been called home for State Representative Phyllis Mundy, a nearly lifelong resident of the town who has served as an extremely popular Democratic state legislator from Kingston for over two decades.

The song was sung at both the first and the second session of AVNOJ, the legislative body of the resistance, and it gradually became to be generally considered the national anthem of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia ( new Yugoslavia ).

The Democratic and Republican parties have been responsible for establishing the voting districts, casting votes in the Electoral College, and fielding candidates for the general elections and help detemining legislative policy and priorities.

In the 1987 primary for treasurer, she defeated two legislative colleagues, Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., chief executive officer at the time of Lamar Advertising Company in Baton Rouge, and Claude " Buddy " Leach, a former U. S. representative and the current chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party.

Subsequent to the 2006 midterm election, in which the Democratic Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Landrieu announced ( along with Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine ) the formation of the " Common Ground Coalition ", a group of moderate senators of both parties, with the goal of finding bipartisan consensus on legislative matters.

In 1857 he was elected into the legislative branch ( Generalrat ) of the city of Neuchâtel for the radical party, which is now the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland.

As Majority Leader, Albert was a key figure in advancing the Democratic legislative agenda in the House, particularly with health care legislation.

In the Canadian province of Ontario, the Liberal Party formed a minority government from 1985 to 1987 on the basis of a formal accord with the New Democratic Party ( NDP ): the NDP agreed to support the Liberals for two years on all confidence motions and budgetary legislation, in exchange for the passage of certain legislative measures proposed by the NDP.

Vancouver Sun legislative columnist Vaughn Palmer commented at the time on the irony of Kelowna, centre of the Bennett dynasty from 1952 to 1986, now being represented by two fringe party MLAs: Serwa and Progressive Democratic Alliance MLA Judi Tyabji.

Then, it made an electoral agreement with the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left coming up to 1967 legislative election.

After trailing in early polls, the Lautenberg campaign, headed by Democratic consultant James Carville, ran an aggressive advertising campaign enumerating Lautenberg's legislative accomplishments and raising the possibility that Dawkins's candidacy was intended solely as a stepping stone to the presidency, as well as pointing out his lack of roots in New Jersey.

In 1984 the WWP supported Jesse Jacksons bid for the Democratic nomination, but when he lost in the primaries they nominated their own presidential ticket, along with a handful of congressional and legislative nominees.

In 1995, the right-wing Social Democratic Party was replaced in the government by the Socialist Party after the October legislative election, in which the PCP received 8. 61 % of the votes.

In advance of the 2011 legislative session, Carroll unsuccessfully sought to replace retired Senator Ed Whorley as Democratic floor leader in the state senate, losing to Senator R. J. Palmer.

During the 1956 legislative campaign, he created a center-left coalition called the Republican Front with the Radical Party of Pierre Mendès-France, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance led by François Mitterrand and the Social Gaullists headed by Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

He has opposed the bulk of the Democratic legislative agenda since they took control of the Senate in 2007, including economic bailout measures and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

After Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party scored a landslide victory in the 2001 legislative elections, Bongo offered government posts to influential opposition members.

After the victory of the PDSR in the 2000 legislative elections and the re-election of Ion Iliescu as President of Romania, Năstase was elected president of the PDSR, which soon changed its name to the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) after merging with another party.

In December 1945, Albanians elected a new People's Assembly, but only candidates from the Democratic Front ( previously the National Liberation Movement then the National Liberation Front ) appeared on the electoral lists, and the communists used propaganda and terror tactics to gag the opposition.

Third parties have failed to score any electoral success: in the 2008 election the Alternattiva Demokratika ( Democratic Alternative-a Green Party established in 1989 ) and the Azzjoni Nazzjonali ( National Action ) managed to secure only 1. 31 % and 0. 5 % of the first preference votes nationwide respectively.

Instead, WASG candidates — including the former Social Democratic leader, Oskar Lafontaine — were nominated on the PDS electoral list.

Ohio was a crucial swing state in presidential elections, and it would have been devastating to the fledgling Democratic Party to lose Ohio's electoral votes.

In 1836, the Whig Party nominated different candidates in different regions in the hopes of splintering the electoral vote and denying Martin Van Buren, the Democratic candidate, a majority in the Electoral College, thereby throwing the election into the Whig-controlled House.

In that same election no candidate for Vice President secured a majority in the electoral college as Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson did not receive the electoral votes of Democratic electors from Virginia, because of his relationship with a former slave.

** Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses control of the House of Councillors, the LDP's worst electoral showing in 34 years, leading to Prime Minister Uno announcing he will resign to take responsibility for the result.

At the 2001 parliamentary elections, the UP entered into an electoral alliance with the larger social-democratic party Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ), and managed to get 16 of its members elected to parliament.

In 2006, the UP joined the SLD, SDPL and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci. pl to form an electoral alliance of centre and centre-left parties, named Left and Democrats ( LiD ), for the upcoming local government elections.

In the general election, Garfield defeated the Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155.

In the electoral college, the Democratic vice presidential votes were divided among Johnson, Littleton W. Tazewell, and James Knox Polk.

The Democratic Party controlled many large Northern states that had a great percentage of the electoral votes.

He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party ( Dixiecrat ) candidate, receiving 2. 4 % of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes.

In 2005, the Italian Radicals joined Italian Democratic Socialists and founded the Rose in the Fist electoral coalition.

On 4 September 1970, he obtained a narrow plurality of 36. 2 percent to 34. 9 percent over Jorge Alessandri, a former president, with 27. 8 percent going to a third candidate ( Radomiro Tomic ) of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ), whose electoral platform was similar to Allende's.

During this time he also led Convergència i Unió ( Convergence and Unity, CiU ) a center-right Catalan nationalist electoral coalition consisting of his own Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya ( Democratic Convergence of Catalonia, CDC ) and the smaller and more conservative Unió Democràtica de Catalunya ( Democratic Union of Catalonia ).

It was enough to stop Hubert Humphrey, and Nixon's ground breaking success as a Republican winning electoral votes from Democratic southern states, was partly due to Democrats not voting for the Democratic ticket.

* SDP-Liberal Alliance, electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom that operated from 1981 to 1988

* United People Alliance, electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party or PCP and the Portuguese Democratic Movement or MDP

Since the passage of this amendment, the District's electoral votes have gone towards the Democratic candidates in every presidential election.