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.

After 1944 Communists were a factor to consider for a few decades, and the Finnish People's Democratic League, formed by Communists and others to the left of Social Democrats, even was the largest party after 1958 elections.

The political left, comprised mainly of Social Democrats, covering a wide spectrum from moderate to revolutionary socialists ; the political right was even more diverse, ranging from social liberals and moderate conservatives to rightist conservative elements.

On the left, the vanguard of the war of 1918 was the most radical urban Red Guards and Workers ' Security Guards from Helsinki, Kotka and Turku ; they led the rural Reds, and convinced those leaders of the Social Democrats who wavered between peace and war to support revolution.

Noli and other Western-oriented leaders formed the Opposition Party of Democrats, which attracted all of Zogu's many personal enemies, ideological opponents, and people left unrewarded by his political machine.

History, he said, " is made in the street ," and he was determined to challenge the dominant parties of the left – the Social Democrats and Communists – in the streets of Berlin.

In the most recent general election in 2010, the result amounted to a hung parliament, and after several days of negotiations, the Labour Party left the government with the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats operating a coalition government.

FF had already left for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, TB / LNNK and Law and Justice MEPs went to the European Conservatives and Reformists, and Lega Nord, the Danish People's Party and Order and Justice MEPs went to Europe of Freedom and Democracy.

In its postwar political history, Milan has been governed for more than thirty years by a center-left coalition including the Italian Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats, while in the 1980s the political balance shifted further left with coalitions between the Socialists, the Communists and the newborn Greens.

The left wing faction either joined the Democratic Party of the Left or stayed within the new Italian People's Party, while some right-wingers others joined National Alliance, however in 1994 – 2000 most Christian Democrats joined Forza Italia, which would have become the party with more ex-DC members in absolute terms.

As the DC's role was ended, the 1919 PPI strongholds and the DC's traditional heartlands were to become Lega Nord's power base, while the successor parties of the DC continued to be key political actors only in the South, where the clientelistic way of government practised by the Christian Democrats and their allies had left a mark.

The periods of 2001-2002 and 2003-2007 were the first times since 1953-1955 that there was single-party Republican leadership in Washington, interrupted from 2001-2003 as Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republicans to become independent and caucused with the Democrats to give them the 51-49 Senate majority.

Brzezinski left office concerned about the internal division within the Democratic party, arguing that the dovish McGovernite wing would send the Democrats into permanent minority.

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In 1992 he left Sweden Democrats and according to some sources founded Hembygdspartiet.

Progressive Party nominee Henry A. Wallace drew off a nearly equal number of popular votes ( 1, 157, 172 ) from the Democrats ' left wing, although he did not carry any states.

In the 1996, 1998, and 2000 elections, Gephardt led the Democrats to gains in the House, although they did not retake the majority until 2006, after Gephardt had left Congress.

On 20 January 1987, Taylor left the European Democrats, with whom the Conservatives sat, to join the controversial European Right group.

It was only because the party was in minority that Sweden was able to grant the right to vote for all, pushed through by the Liberals and the Social Democrats ( the left ), against the objections of the right.

For this he was widely respected, even by his fiercest political opponents and when he resigned and left the parliament in 1935, the leader of the Social Democrats, Per Albin Hansson, expressed his " honest thanks over the battle lines ".

When many Democrats left the White House following Richard Nixon's replacement of Johnson, Dole did not.

This resulted in great tensions within the Christian Democrats ; one of the party icons, the environmental proponent Björn Gillberg, left the party.

In August 2006, 37 Labour Party members in her Derby South constituency left the party and joined the Liberal Democrats, criticising her approach to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

The German Democratic Party (, DDP ) was founded in November 1918 by leaders of the former Progressive People's Party ( Fortschrittliche Volkspartei ), left members of the National Liberal Party ( Nationalliberale Partei ), and a new group calling themselves the Democrats.

With Ludwig Quidde ( Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1927 ) and others the party had a pacifist wing which left the Democrats in 1930.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Matsuo lifted his rifle, easing the sling under his left upper arm for steadiness.

On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.

Daddy left the car for me, and I'm going to town this afternoon ''.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

She left the next day for her teaching job at Princeton, Illinois.

J. A. C. Robertson, after serving Gross one week, left for England.

As for the author of the Englishman, Mrs. Manley sarcastically deplores that the sole defense of the Protestant cause should be left to `` Ridpath, Dick Steele, and their Associates, with the Apostles of Young Man's Coffee-House ''.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

He would not make a sound until the President had wakened and left for the office ; ;

This warm relationship came to an abrupt end in June of 1834 when the National Congress appropriated $3,000 for compiling and printing the laws of Arkansas Territory, and, taking note of the recent wave of corruption in the legislature, left it to the governor to award the contract.

Gorton left England, he said, `` to enjoy libertie of conscience in respect to faith towards God, and for no other end ''.

He left in a storm for Pocasset, December 4, 1638.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

In short, the traditional epithet for Milton of ' Lady of Christ's ', while eminently fitting, rests only on this baffling passage in the midst of the most treacherous piece of writing Milton left us.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

Two days later Mr. Rayburn left Washington for the last time.

It is the only method left for a man to escape from a woman's world.

When the detective left, Andrus phoned his secretary to cancel his work and to advise the network to get a substitute director for his current project.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

She stayed too late, and when she left, it was dark and time to go home and cook supper for her husband.