Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.

He headed the SDP campaign of 2003, which led to victory for the SDP ; however, the Center Party gained more seats, which marked the end for the succession of the cabinets of the SDP and the National Coalition Party.

He secured more votes than the candidate of the Continuing Social Democratic Party ( SDP ), led by former Foreign Secretary David Owen.

In August 1958, Karl-August Fagerholm's third cabinet, a coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and including Kekkonen's party Agrarian League, was formed.

Following the establishment of the SDP by the ' Gang of Four ' ( Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams ), who had left the Labour Party in March 1981, the new party entered into an informal alliance with the existing centre party, the Liberals, led by David Steel.

Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990.

He was the last leader of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ), serving during the negotiations that led to its merger with the Liberal Party in 1988.

He led the negotiations on the split of seats with the Liberals for the SDP side and his decision to go public on the difficulties encountered has often been blamed for starting the Alliance's slide in the opinion polls.

A political-action faction led by Victor Berger left the SDA convention and founded the SDP as an explicitly socialist alternative to the mainstream parties.

The SDP was originally known as the Japanese Socialist Party ( 日本社会党 Nihon Shakai-tō ), or JSP, and was formed in 1945, following the fall of the militarist regime which had led Japan into the Second World War.

However, in May 2010 disagreements over the issue of the Futenma US base led to the sacking of Fukushima from the cabinet on Friday May 28th, and the SDP subsequently voted to leave the ruling coalition.

However, in May 2010 disagreements over the issue of the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma led to the sacking of Fukushima from the cabinet on Friday May 28, and the SDP subsequently voted to leave the ruling coalition.

This ultimately led to SDSH and SDP patching their differences and former being incorporated into the latter in April 1994.

As opposed to the Socialist Party of Canada, the SDP allowed minority language groups ample room for self-determination, which led to a perception that the ethnic groups were more dominant than the overarching SDP.

He has led the SDP since its founding.

Berger was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America in 1897 and led the split of the " political action " faction of that organization to form the Social Democratic Party of America ( SDP ) in 1898.

In the 2000 general elections, the SDP formed a coalition with the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina ( SBiH ), a party founded and led by former wartime prime minister Haris Silajdžić, to gain the majority and force the nationalist parties out of power.

The SDP led the coalition government until the October 2002 general elections, when the public, dissatisfied at the pace of political reform, elected the nationalist parties back into power.

The SPP was founded in 1994 by Sin Kek Tong, who led a pro-Chiam See Tong faction out of the Singapore Democratic Party ( SDP ).

Daniel personally led the fight for the measure, which he had watered down considerably since its rejection by two previous Legislatures, in a public hearing before the House Committee on Revenue and Taxation.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

The party was part of all three House of Freedoms coalition governments led by Silvio Berlusconi.

The admission of the middle classes to the franchise and to the House of Commons led eventually to the development of a systematic middle class liberalism and the end of Whiggery, although for many years reforming aristocrats held senior positions in the party.

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

It led to the system of Constitutional Monarchy, with further reforms shifting the balance of power from the monarchy and nobility to the House of Commons.

Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

Jacqueline Kennedy led an effort to redecorate and restore the White House while she was First Lady.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel stated that it was important " to not have the CNN's and the others in the world basically be led in following Fox ".

* The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.

A succession crisis following the death of the last Capetian monarch in 1337 led to the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years ' War between the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

He failed in both the Senate and House, and the Jay Treaty led to ten years of prosperous trade with Britain ( and anger on the part of France leading to the Quasi-War ).

The predominant faction, the " War Hawks ," were led by House Speaker Henry Clay.

In the House, antislavery Whigs led by John Quincy Adams voted against the war ; among Democrats, Senator John C. Calhoun was the most notable opponent of the declaration.

On March 17, 1910, after two failed attempts to curb Cannon's absolute power in the House, Nebraska Representative George Norris led a coalition of 42 progressive Republicans and the entire delegation of 149 Democrats in a revolt.

In 2009, Dan Itse, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Fremont, New Hampshire, led a national movement to restore the powers of the states through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

Before drafting the specific terms of his peace deal, Wilson recruited a team led by Colonel House to compile information deemed pertinent in assessing Europe ’ s geo-political situation.

Batman, who had previously forbidden any attempt to unseat Luthor from office by force, led the storming of the White House.

Executive power is vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister ; the Malaysian constitution stipulates that the prime minister must be a member of the Lower House of parliament who, in the opinion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( YDPA ), commands a majority in parliament.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

Eventually, this protectiveness led to her consulting an astrologer, Joan Quigley, who offered insight on which days were " good ", " neutral ", or should be avoided, which influenced her husband's White House schedule.

Kinnock was a long-time critic of the House of Lords, and his acceptance of a peerage led him to be accused of hypocrisy, by Will Self, among others.

When Ehud Olmert was serving in his post as Mayor of Jerusalem, he led efforts to protest against the way Orient House was functioning, refusing to meet with Faisal Husseini and demanding that Orient House pay 300, 000 USD in municipal taxes.