Following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals.

Following revelations about Dr Chai Patel and others who were recommended for peerages after lending the Labour party money, the Treasurer of the party, Jack Dromey said he had not been involved and did not know the party had secretly borrowed millions of pounds in 2005.

Following the general election of 1950, the Labour party experienced a greatly reduced parliamentary majority, a mere five seats compared to the triple-digit majority of five years previous, despite an increase in the popular vote ( possible because of the first-past-the-post voting system ).

Following the return of the Labour Party to government in 1997, Dewar became the Secretary of State for Scotland and campaigned for a ' Yes-Yes ' vote in the successful referendum on Scottish devolution.

Following the Greater London Council election in 1981, the incoming Labour administration simplified fares in Greater London by introducing four new bus fare zones and two central London Underground zones, named City and West End, where flat fares applied for the first time.

Following their departure, the Labour government charted a new course of neutrality and became an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Following this, the Mauritius Labour Party was founded in 1936 by Maurice Cure to safeguard the interest of the labourers.

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

Following the 2011 election, Welsh Labour held exactly half of the seats in the Assembly, falling just short of an overall majority.

Following his resignation and Labour Party defeat at the elections, Likud's Menachem Begin was elected in 1977.

Following a failed attempt to establish a coalition with the Liberals, Heath conceded power to a minority Labour government under Harold Wilson, which won a small majority in a second election in October that year.

Following the 2011 general election, the constituency elected two TDs for the Fine Gael party ( centre right ), and one TD each for Fianna Fáil ( centre to centre-right ), the Labour Party ( centre left ) and Sinn Féin ( left wing ).

Following his outspoken opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and criticism of the government, Downing Street suggested that he might face withdrawal of the Labour whip.

Following her move onto the front-bench, the Telegraph said on 27 September 2011 that Abbott had ' become one of Labour ’ s best front bench performers '.

Following the May 2010 election, Islington Council comprises 35 Labour Party councillors and 13 Liberal Democrat councillors.

Following the election in 2010 the Cabinet is Labour, replacing the previous Liberal Democrat and Conservative Party coalition.

Following the parliamentary elections of 1967, he became leader of the Labour Party in parliament.

Following the 2005 general election, Labour formed a coalition with the Progressive Party ( a faction of the old Alliance ), and entered into complex confidence and supply agreements with the centrist United Future and New Zealand First parties, which gave both parties ' leaders a Ministerial portfolio, while remaining outside the Cabinet.

Following the 2011 local elections, the current Councillors for Acomb Ward are the Deputy Leader for the Labour Group, Tracey Simpson-Laing, and David Horton ( Labour ).

Following Labour's fourth successive defeat at the general election of April 1992, Neil Kinnock resigned as leader and Smith was elected Labour leader.

Following Smith's death, the Labour Party renamed its party headquarters in Walworth Road John Smith House in his memory.

Following this, he was made secretary of the international department of the Labour Party, becoming a foreign policy adviser to Labour leaders and establishing contacts with socialists across Europe.

Following the Labor Party's victory in the March 1983 election, Keating was appointed treasurer, a post he held until 1991.

Following Hagelin's and the Natural Law Party's failed attempt at a coalition with the Reform Party in 2000, the Natural Law Party ran its own ticket of Hagelin and Nat Goldhaber.

Following Jiang Zemin's 1999 ban of Falun Gong, then-Minister of Education Chen Zhili launched an active campaign to promote the Party's line on Falun Gong within all levels of academic institutions, including graduate schools, universities and colleges, middle schools, primary schools, and kindergartens.

" Following this announcement, media outlets speculated that Frum had been " forced out " for writing an editorial called " Waterloo ," in which he criticized the Republican Party's unwillingness to bargain with Democrats on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 General Election, Howard unsuccessfully made a bid for the post of Conservative Party leader and held the posts of Shadow Foreign Secretary ( 1997 – 1999 ) and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 2001 – 2003 ).

Following the 2001 general election, Howard was recalled to frontline politics when the Conservative Party's new leader, Iain Duncan Smith, appointed him Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Following the Labor Party's 1996 election defeat, Crean contested the deputy leadership of the party but was defeated by Gareth Evans, 42 votes to 37.

Following his forced retirement, he became the chairman of the Ba ' ath Party's Iraqi cell's Military Bureau.

Following the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party's ouster from government in 1963, al-Bakr and the party ensued underground activities and became vocal critics of the government.

Following the sudden death of John Smith from a heart attack on 12 May 1994, Margaret Beckett became Labour leader, the Party's constitution providing for the automatic succession of the deputy leader for the remainder of the leadership term, upon the death or resignation of an incumbent leader in opposition.

Following the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, they felt that the Workers ' Party's Marxist stance was now an obstacle to winning support at the polls.

Following the Nazi Party's takeover in 1933, Pieck went into exile again, first in France, then in Moscow in 1935.

Following the January 1910 general election a second December 1910 general election was called, in which the Liberals lost their majority, and became dependent on the Irish ( IPP and AFIL ) Party's 84 seats, as well as Labour's.

Following the Labour Party's victory in the 1945 general elections, the government announced its intention to nationalise Cable and Wireless, which was carried out in 1947.

Following the Conservative Party's defeat in 1997, Young was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Defence Secretary by the Party's new Leader, William Hague.

Following the Socialist-Revolutionary Party's assassination of MVD Minister Dmitry Sipyagin on April 2, 1902, the new Minister Vyacheslav von Plehve gradually relieved Directorates of Gendarmes of investigation power in favor of Security and Investigation Stations ( Охранно-розыскное отделение ) under respective Mayors and Governors ( who as a matter of fact were subordinate to the MVD Minister ).

Following the 1968 convention, in which many reformers had been disappointed in the way that Vice President Hubert Humphrey, despite not having competed in a single primary, easily won the nomination over Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern ( who announced after the assassination of another candidate, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ), a commission headed by Senator McGovern reformed the Democratic Party's nominating process to increase the power of primaries in choosing delegates in order to increase the democracy of the process.

Following World War II, and the Wafd Party's victory in the boycotted 1950 election, the new Wafd government unilaterally abrogated the treaty in October 1951.

Following his release from prison in 1955, Gates was appointed as editor of the Communist Party's newspaper, The Daily Worker.

Following the BC Liberal Party's election victory in 2001, Premier Gordon Campbell appointed Clark Minister of Education and Deputy Premier.

Following the first round of the 2007 presidential election, he called on voters to vote for Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) candidate Nicolas Sarkozy to counter the Socialist Party's candidate Ségolène Royal and the left.

Following the controversy surrounding Brash's Orewa speech of 27 January 2004, Brownlee became the National Party's spokesman for Maori Affairs in place of Georgina Te Heuheu, who resigned from the position after refusing to endorse party-leader Brash's comments.

Following LeBlanc's re-election in the 2011 federal election, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae appointed LeBlanc as the Liberal Party's Foreign Affairs Critic.