Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

In December 2009, shortly after the election of Tony Abbott to the Liberal Party leadership, Fraser resigned from the Liberal Party.

The Liberal National Party led by Lawrence Springborg went on to lose the March 2009 election to Anna Bligh's Australian Labor Party.

During summer 2009, the largest capital improvement project broke ground on the Fayette campus — $ 75 million — which will include a new student center, suite-style housing, and a Liberal Arts academic building.

Following the 2009 election, the Liberal Party won two seats in this manner.

In the East Sussex County Council elections of 2009 the town returned an Independent in the Lewes Division with an increased majority over the Liberal Democrats.

With the support of both Opposition parties and Labour rebel MPs on 29 April 2009, a Liberal Democrat motion that all Gurkhas be offered an equal right of residence was passed, allowing Gurkhas who served before 1997 residence in the UK.

There are two well-established synagogues, The Ealing United Synagogue ( Orthodox ), which celebrated its 90th anniversary in November 2009, and the Ealing Liberal Synagogue, now in its 67th year.

Each division returns one county councillor and the most recent county council elections were held in 2009 — the Liberal Democrats won Beeston North and the Conservatives won Beeston South & Attenborough.

"" The Rise and Fall of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ," Journal of Asian Studies ( 2010 ) 69 # 1 pp 5-15, focuses on the 2009 election.

The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.

Whitby lies within the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency of the European Parliament, which in the June 2009 European Election elected two Conservative, one Labour, one UKIP, one Liberal Democrat and one British National Party MEPs, although one of the elected Conservative MEPs transferred to the Liberal Democrats in March 2010.

On 31 May 2009, Cllr Martin Ford, formerly a Liberal Democrat, joined the Scottish Green Party in protest to the plans by Donald Trump to develop on an important environmental site at Menie.

On 13 October 2009, he was joined by fellow former Liberal Democrat Cllr Debra Storr.

Following the 2009 election, seven parties are represented in parliament: the Labour Party ( 64 representatives ), the Progress Party ( 41 ), the Conservative Party ( 30 ), the Socialist Left Party ( 11 ), the Centre Party ( 11 ), the Christian Democratic Party ( 10 ) and the Liberal Party ( 2 ).

On 29 April 2009 a motion in the House of Commons by the Liberal Democrats that all Gurkhas be offered an equal right of residence resulted in a defeat for the Government by 267 votes to 246, the only first day motion defeat for a government since 1978.

* The 2008 – 2009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, in which Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois Members of Parliament attempted to have a vote of non-confidence against the Conservative government and replace it with a coalition government, was unprecedented in the Canadian constitutional system, as formal party based co-operation was rare.

Since its most recent election the Liberal government has faced a number of scandals, including historic losses at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the attribution of highly-sought subsidized daycare spaces to Liberal Party donors, as well as allegations of systemic construction industry corruption which arose notably during the 2009 Montréal municipal election.

Definition numbers were altered in 2009 when the Ontario Liberal government changed the definition of Francophone.

When Dion announced that he would resign the leadership in May 2009 after the party's poor results, Rae became a candidate in the ensuing Liberal leadership election.

In June 2009, Adam Busby Jr., the son of the SNLA founder, was jailed for 6 years for sending a total of 6 packages to various political figures, including First Minister Alex Salmond, Liberal Democrats MSP Mike Rumbles and Glasgow City Council.

In 2009, the term was applied by many commentators to former Senate Majority Leader and then-Obama cabinet appointee Tom Daschle for failing to pay back taxes and interest on the use of a limousine service.

In 2009 he presented Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model at the Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference: Law, Behavior & the Brain.

* Michael Reynolds, The Devil's Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader, Pen & Sword 2009

** Gang of Four in New York Senate, Democratic senators supporting attempted change of Majority Leader in 2009 leadership crisis

* 2009 Runs Leader ( KBO )

Iranian government commemorates the event every year by demonstration at the embassy and burning U. S. flag but on November 4, 2009, when pro-democracy protesters and reformists demonstrated in the streets of Tehran, despite Iranian government authorities encouraging people to chant " Death to America ," protesters instead chanted " Death to the Dictator " ( referring to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ) and other anti-government slogans.

He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, from 2009 until 2011 representing the Winnipeg division of Elmwood as a member of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, and served as Minister of Conservation and Government House Leader.

On November 3, 2009 Blaikie was appointed to the cabinet of Premier Greg Selinger as the Minister of Conservation and Government House Leader.

As a result, the Welsh Assembly was controlled by the Labour-Plaid alliance with Rhodri Morgan as First Minister ( up until his retirement in 2009 and subsequent replacement by Carwyn Jones as First Minister ) and Plaid Leader Ieuan Wyn Jones as his deputy.

Advani became Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.

Advani stated that as the Leader of the Opposition in a parliamentary democracy, he considered himself as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the general elections, ending on 16 May 2009.

* CIBC was selected for the third year in a row as a 2009 Climate Disclosure Leader by the Conference Board of Canada and the Carbon Disclosure Project ( CDP ).

He has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2004, and was Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party from 16 September 2008 to 1 December 2009.

* For Congo ’ s Leader, Middling Reviews by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times, April 4, 2009

From October 2009 to September 2010, Melissa Brade had been acting as Leader of the Canadian Action Party.

In November 2009, Christie was overwhelmingly returned as Leader of the PLP at its Annual General Convention, garnering more than 80 % of the vote over Dr. Bernard Nottage.

In 2009, the CPS celebrated its 35th anniversary for which the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron MP, gave a speech highlighting the role the CPS played in the Conservative Party ’ s victory in the 1979 election crediting them with ‘ a great rebirth of intellectual ideas, of intellectual vigour, and of intellectual leadership ’

On 8 September 2009, Conservative Party Leader David Cameron appointed Young as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, replacing Alan Duncan who held the post since January 2009.

Nigel Paul Farage (, ; born 3 April 1964, Farnborough, Kent ), is a British politician and is the Leader of the UK Independence Party ( UKIP ), a position he also held from September 2006 to November 2009.

In September 2006, Farage became the UKIP Leader and led the party through the 2009 European Parliament Election in which it received the second highest share of the popular vote, defeating Labour and the Liberal Democrats with over two million votes.

He was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the House of Lords Valerie Amos from the 2005 General Election until September 2006, and was PPS to Vera Baird until Sept 2009 when he resigned in protest against Baroness Scotland remaining in government.

In October 2008 he was given a partial reprieve when he was chosen to lead a Liberal Democrat commission on privacy in the UK, and in January 2009 he was reappointed as spokesman on the office of the Leader of the House of Commons.