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.

The Republicans ' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support, with the Democrats crushed at the 1863 elections in Ohio when they tried to resurrect anti-black sentiment.

" 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 Democrats gained a majority in both houses in the 1954 election.

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 ).

At the same time the Democrats gained support from the Mugwumps, they lost some blue-collar workers to the Greenback-Labor party, led by ex-Democrat Benjamin Butler.

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

Kennedy gained since there was an economic recession which hurt the incumbent GOP, and he had the advantage of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Byrd returned as president pro tempore, and Stevens became the third president pro tempore emeritus, when the Democrats gained control of the Senate in 2007.

The Democrats gained five seats in the Senate and 49 in the House.

In the 1992 general election the party added a fourth MP, Cynog Dafis, when he gained Ceredigion and Pembroke North from the Liberal Democrats.

Democrats gained enough seats to control more than two-thirds of each chamber in the Eighty-ninth Congress with a 68-32 margin in the Senate and a 295-140 margin in the House of Representatives.

In 2005, the Democrats gained a majority on the Saratoga Springs City Council after decades of Republican dominance.

In time, however, the GOP gained parity if not supremacy to the Democrats in Mississippi.

The outcome of the 1994 election proved a success for the Social Democrats when they gained more than 45 % of the votes.

In the 1998 election the Social Democrats gained even fewer votes than in the 1991 election, when they got voted out of office.

When the Republicans gained control of the House after the 1952 elections, Reece served as chairman of the Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations, losing this post after the Democrats regained control in 1955.

At the 2010 Lambeth Council election Labour gained seats and the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Green party lost seats.

Between the 2006 and 2010 elections five Respect councillors defected to Labour ; one Respect and one Labour councillor defected to the Conservatives ; one Liberal Democrat defected to Labour ; and one Labour councillor was gained through a by-election at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats gained 57 seats.

With increased fraud, violence and intimidation, white Redeemer Democrats gained control of the state legislature in 1876 and established a new system of one-party rule.

In the November 2011 general election Democrats gained control of all of the borough's elected positions.

At the elections held on the 25 November 2007, the Croatian Party of Rights ( HSP ) and the Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonia and Baranja ( HDSSB ) gained 7 seats each, the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) 6 seats, the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) 4, and the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats ( HNS ) 1.

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 current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

Since 20 July 2004, ELDR is politically represented in the European Parliament by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ) parliamentary group, formed in conjunction with the European Democratic Party.

The vote was 65 to 20, with the Democrats ' voting 36 in favor and 12 in opposition ; and the Republicans ' voting 29 in favor and 8 in opposition.

When a violent race riot broke out in Detroit on June 20, 1943, Willkie went on national radio to criticize Republicans and Democrats for ignoring " the Negro question.

* February 20 – In Canada's Yukon Territory, the ruling New Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, winning 9 seats vs. the Progressive Conservative Party's 7.

The Democrats assumed control of Congress in the 1874 election for the first time in 20 years.

The Liberals held an average of 60 % of the seats, the Social Democrats and the Conservative People's Party ( CVP today ), about 20 % each.

One month after the election, on 20 October, while the senate had still to reach a decision and negotiations were actively in place between the Christian Democrats and the Popular Unity, General René Schneider, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army, was shot resisting a kidnap attempt by a group led by General Roberto Viaux.

The House bill passed on a vote of 264 to 147, with 244 Republicans and 20 Democrats voting in favor of the bill.

Democrats Governor Mike Beebe ( who was running for re-election ) and Broadway, who was running for Lieutenant Governor of the state, each won by at least 20 percentage points in the city during the 2010 election.

Federally, South San Gabriel is located in California's 32nd and 38th congressional districts, which have Cook PVIs of D + 17 and D + 20 respectively and is represented by Democrats Judy Chu and Grace Napolitano respectively.

Federally, Valinda is located in California's 32nd and 38th congressional districts, which have Cook PVIs of D + 17 and D + 20 respectively and is represented by Democrats Judy Chu and Grace Napolitano respectively.

Federally, Whittier is located in California's 38th, 39th, and 42nd congressional districts, which have Cook PVIs of D + 20, D + 13, and R + 10 respectively and are represented by Democrats Grace Napolitano and Linda Sánchez and Republican Gary Miller respectively.

Of registered voters, 1, 002 ( 29. 0 % of all registered voters ) were registered as Democrats, 696 ( 20. 2 %) were registered as Republicans and 1, 752 ( 50. 8 %) were registered as Unaffiliated.

Of registered voters, 1, 708 ( 20. 7 % of all registered voters ) were registered as Democrats, 2, 677 ( 32. 4 %) were registered as Republicans and 3, 877 ( 46. 9 %) were registered as Unaffiliated.

Of registered voters, of which 1, 947 ( 30. 0 % of all registered voters ) were registered as Democrats, 1, 334 ( 20. 5 %) were registered as Republicans and 3, 216 ( 49. 5 %) were registered as Unaffiliated.

Of registered voters, 892 ( 27. 7 % of all registered voters ) were registered as Democrats, 646 ( 20. 1 %) were registered as Republicans and 1, 676 ( 52. 1 %) were registered as Unaffiliated.

Of registered voters, 2, 350 ( 29. 8 % of all registered voters ) were registered as Democrats, 1, 637 ( 20. 8 %) were registered as Republicans and 3, 892 ( 49. 4 %) were registered as Unaffiliated.

Of registered voters, 1, 917 ( 20. 1 % vs. 16. 5 % countywide ) were registered as Democrats, 3, 242 ( 33. 9 % vs. 39. 3 % countywide ) were registered as Republicans and 4, 383 ( 45. 9 % vs. 44. 1 % countywide ) were registered as Undeclared.

Of registered voters, 486 ( 20. 2 % vs. 16. 5 % countywide ) were registered as Democrats, 754 ( 31. 4 % vs. 39. 3 % countywide ) were registered as Republicans and 1, 159 ( 48. 2 % vs. 44. 1 % countywide ) were registered as Undeclared.

However, Democrats have now succeeded in securing a majority of the town's enrolled voters, and won majority control of the Town Board for the first time in over 20 years at the 2007 elections.

Of registered voters, 694 ( 27. 1 % of all registered voters ) were registered as Democrats, 534 ( 20. 8 %) were registered as Republicans and 1, 334 ( 52. 0 %) were registered as Unaffiliated.

Of registered voters, 752 ( 20. 3 % of all registered voters ) were registered as Democrats, 990 ( 26. 8 %) were registered as Republicans and 1, 958 ( 52. 9 %) were registered as Unaffiliated.