This, in turn, brought a new fashion in senatorial criticism as the Democrats took control.

Democrats were rarely invited to speak at the university, in part because they took political and social positions ( especially support for abortion rights ) opposed by the Religious Right.

The results produced a ČSSD coalition government with Christian Democrats ( KDU-ČSL ) and Liberals ( US-DEU ), while Civic Democrats ( ODS ) and Communists ( KSČM ) took place in opposition.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.

After the Dollfuss dictatorship took steps against known Social Democrats, the Social Democrats called for nationwide resistance against the government.

In 1922, the fourth congress of the Communist International took up the policy of the United Front, urging Communists to work with rank and file Social Democrats while remaining critical of their leaders, whom they criticised for betraying the working class by supporting the war efforts of their respective capitalist classes.

Since 1959 the seven-seat cabinet had comprised 2 Free Democrats, 2 Christian Democrats, 2 Social Democrats, and 1 Swiss People's Party, but in 2004, the Swiss People's Party took one seat from the Christian Democrats.

During the primaries, Limbaugh in particular had endorsed a plan to do whatever it took to prolong the Democrats ' nomination by encouraging political conservatives to cross over to the Democrats and voting for the trailing candidate, a plan he calls " Operation Chaos ".

Though Democrats reinstated the disappearing quorum when they took control of the House the following year, Reed as minority leader proved so adroit at using the tactic against them that Democrats reinstated Reed Rules in 1894.

In 1873 – 75, he watched as the Democrats ( called Redeemers ) took the control of all but three Southern states.

Nevertheless, the party bosses stuck by Herrick, and Harding took his name out of the running for any position on the ticket, which was defeated by the Democrats.

In the 1910 election the Democrats also took control of the General Assembly.

During the ensuing general election campaign against Vice President Hubert Humphrey — which took place against a backdrop of urban riots and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, culminating in the violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago — Agnew repeatedly hammered the Democrats on the issue of " law and order ".

In December 1974, he took the lead of the Union of Democrats for the Republic ( UDR ) against the will of its more senior personalities.

After Kennedy's death, Johnson took the initiative in finishing what Kennedy started and broke a filibuster by Southern Democrats in March 1964 ; as a result, this pushed the bill for passage in the Senate.

Gelli took a list of " sleeping members "— members who were not invited to take part in masonic rituals anymore, as Italian freemasonry was under close scrutiny by the reigning Christian Democrats.

Using voter intimidation, white Democrats took control of the state legislature by the end of the century ; they passed state electoral laws and a new constitution that essentially disfranchised most blacks, a situation that lasted until the federal legislation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

In 1994 the Liberal Democrats took the Council for the first time.

As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor.

" Branch writes that Clinton had felt " beleaguered, unappreciated and open to a liaison with Lewinsky " following " the Democrats ' loss of Congress in the November 1994 elections, the death of his mother the previous January, and the ongoing Whitewater investigation ".

In Virginia, primaries are open to all registered voters, so Warner encouraged Democrats and independents to vote in that primary.

After Bush was re-elected, Miller referred to the Republican victories in that election ( including a sweep of five open Senate seats in the South ) as a sign that Democrats did not relate to most Americans.

In the United States, they may be dissatisfied Republicans or Democrats who are open to the idea of voting for other parties, or they could be people who have never had a strong affiliation with any political party, and will vote depending on certain things that influence them-e. g.

They tended to reject the policies of the Southern Democrats, who were deemed " aristocratic " ( Andrew Jackson's popularity in the Chattanooga area — which he helped open to European-American settlement — created a stronger Democratic base in southeastern Tennessee, however ).

Unlike many Democrats, he said he was " open " to Sam Brownback's proposal to implement a flat tax in D. C., and he supported school vouchers.

He was one of the few Democrats to win an open seat in that year's massive Republican landslide.

Democrats Abroad switched the method of determining convention delegates from a primary to an open caucus in 1992.

In 2004, she was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the open House seat in the 2nd Congressional District, with the support of Emily's List, the Sierra Club, and 21st Century Democrats.

New Democrats were more open to deregulation than the previous Democratic leadership had been.

The Republicans picked-up open seats in Ohio and Kentucky and defeated incumbent Senator Carol Mosley-Braun ( D-IL ), but these were cancelled out by the Democrats ' gain of an open seat in Indiana and defeats of Senators Al D ' Amato ( R-NY ) and Lauch Faircloth ( R-NC ).

The United States Senate election, of November 8, 1988 was an election for the United States Senate in which, in spite of the Republican victory by George H. W. Bush in the presidential election, the Democrats gained a net of one open seat in the Senate.

The Democrats captured four Republican seats, which included an open seat in Virginia and the seats of three incumbents, Chic Hecht of Nevada, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. of Connecticut, and David K. Karnes of Nebraska.

Democrats won open seats in Vermont and Florida and unseated incumbents Peter H. Dominick ( R-CO ) and Marlow Cook ( R-KY ).

In speeches during the campaign, Nice promised to clean up the dirty underworld politics of the Democrats and their political bosses and ensure elections were fair and open to everyone.

Democrats won an open seat in Iowa as well as taking the seat of Thomas Kuchel of California, who had been defeated in a primary by Max Rafferty.

Democrats took open seats in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maryland and defeated Republican incumbents Joseph H. Bottum ( R-SD ), Homer E. Capehart ( R-IN ), and Alexander Wiley ( R-WI ).

The Republicans gained one open seat in Wyoming and the seat of incumbent J. Allen Frear ( D-DE ), while the Democrats gained an open seat in North Dakota.

Democrats gained three open seats in California, Indiana, and New Jersey, and defeated ten Republican incumbents:

With the victory of Michael McMahon for the open seat in the Staten Island-based 13th District, Democrats now hold every seat in New York City — something which hasn't happened in over 70 years.

With the defeats of Republican incumbents Sue Kelly and John Sweeney and a Democratic victory in the open seat of Sherwood Boehlert in 2006, New York sent 23 Democrats and six Republicans to the 110th Congress.

Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.

Though the Republican legislative candidates won more popular votes, the Democrats won more seats, and the legislature re-elected Douglas to the Senate.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

The Tennessee Senate, controlled by Democrats and led by Johnson, boycotted the joint session and blocked the filling of both the US Senate seats, denying Tennessee representation in the U. S. Senate until 1843.

" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.

Despite gaining 9 seats the Tories lost 8 behind them to the Liberals Democrats and one even to Labour.

The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.

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 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

Nevertheless, none of these has held a single-party majority, with the notable exception of 1916 elections where Social Democrats gained 103 of the 200 seats.

Because his Movement of Solidarity Action ( MAS ) Party gained only 18 of 116 seats in Congress, Serrano entered into a tenuous alliance with the Christian Democrats and the National Union of the Center ( UCN ).

Cleveland's margin of victory was, at the time, the largest in a contested New York election, and the Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of the New York State Legislature.

Democrats maintained control of the State Legislature and both U. S. House seats, and gained a U. S. Senate seat.

Democrats lost control of both chambers of the State Legislature, control of the Executive Council and both of the U. S. House seats.

In the new parliament, Labour held 418 seats, the Conservatives 165, and the Liberal Democrats 46, giving Labour a majority of 179.

The Democrats ( DP ) won 27 seats with the three remaining seats going to minor parties and an independent.

Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.

In the 2010 election, the Liberal Democrats received 23 % of the votes but only 9 % of the seats in the House of Commons.

While electoral results do not necessarily translate into legislative seats, the Liberal Democrats can exert influence if there is a situation such as a hung parliament.

The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.