Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

Secretary Goldberg and Sen. Morse will hold a joint press conference at the Roosevelt Hotel at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Blaine Whipple, executive secretary of the Democratic Party of Oregon, reported Tuesday.

" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.

In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.

Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing parties, and split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding an end to its expansion.

Southern demands for a slave code to ensure slavery in the territories repeatedly split the Democratic Party between North and South by widening margins.

In 1860, the last national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the presidential election in 1848, the Democratic Party split over the slavery issue, with the abolitionists leaving the party and forming the Free Soil Party, and making Martin Van Buren their nominee.

The moderates ' efforts to compromise with Johnson failed, and a political war ensued between the Republicans ( both radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic Party in the North and the conservative groupings in the South.

Vice President Spiro Agnew urged Capp to run in the Democratic Party Massachusetts primary in 1970 against Ted Kennedy, but Capp ultimately declined.

The Youth International Party ( YIP ) and Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) emerged in Li ' l Abner as " Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything!

The logo followed a template very similar to the Democratic Party of the Left, with the previous logo in a small circle, as a means of legally preventing others from using it.

The present Mayor is Élio Manuel Delgado da Maia, elected by a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre.

* Convergence Party ( Convergencia, CV ), founded in 1997 ;

In these elections the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ), the Labour Party ( PT ) and Convergence ( CV ) formed a coalition called Coalition for the Good of All.

Regional parties, mainly the Basque Nationalist Party ( EAJ-PNV ) from the Basque Country, and Convergence and Union ( CiU ) and the Socialists ' Party of Catalonia ( PSC ) from Catalonia, have also played key roles in Spanish politics.

The political parties with representation in the city are the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, the National Action Party or PAN, the Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD, the Labor Party or PT, the Green Party, Convergence, Socialdemocratic Party and Nueva Alianza.

Major political powers are Unity of Aran-Aranese Nationalist Party ( Socialists ' Party of Catalonia local section, the governing party ) and Aranese Democratic Convergence ( Democratic Convergence of Catalonia local section ).

With 156 of the 350 seats ( the PSOE won 141 ) Aznar had to reach agreements with two regional nationalist parties, Convergence and Unity ( Catalan ) and the Canary Islands Coalition, in order to govern with additional support from the Basque Nationalist Party.

After the PP's first year in office, the goodwill between it and the major nationalist parties in the legislature, Convergence and Unity ( CiU ) and the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ), appeared to have lost strength.

On 13 November 2003 the PSOE ( Socialist Party of Catalonia, PSC ) increased its vote total but scored second in the regional election in Catalonia, after Convergence and Union.

* 25px Paraguay-Socialist Popular Convergence Party ( Partido Convergencia Popular Socialista )

In 1983 they built the Argentine Movement for Socialism ( MAS ) and shortly there after the Brazilian Socialist Convergence, based in the Metal Workers Confederation and an initial organizer of the Workers Party ( PT ).

However, BNG's interests are still represented thanks to an alliance established with the Basque Nationalist Party and the Catalan Convergence and Union.

Most of the main Catalan political parties ( Convergence and Union ( CiU ), Socialists ' Party of Catalonia ( PSC ), Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ) and Initiative for Catalonia Greens ( ICV )) adhere to Catalanism to some extent, even though some of them ( PSC and ICV ) reject being labelled as " independentist ".

Electors also consider the two most important nationalist parties: Convergence and Union from Catalonia and Basque Nationalist Party from the Basque Country, to be centred.

A long-time associate of José María Aznar, Rajoy made the move into national politics when Aznar became Prime Minister in 1996 with the support of Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ), Convergence and Union ( CiU ) and the Canarian Coalition, serving as Minister of Public administration and Minister of Education and Culture in the first Aznar administration.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 4, 1984 ' won getting the 67. 20 % of the valid votes cast 735. 067 votes equivalent to well above the second party of the Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD ) who just won 154. 127 corresponding to a 14. 00 % of the valid votes.

The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (, CVP ;, PDC ;, PPD ;, PCD ) is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland.

He broke away from the Conservative Party and founded the Conservative-Democratic Party ( Partidul Conservator-Democrat, PCD ) in early 1908.

During his stay in Paris, while the main Conservative Party disintegrated, the PCD had itself suffered a major crisis ; according to Ionescu's rival and one-time political partner Constantin Argetoianu, Ionescu's temporary residence on Calea Victoriei subsequently became a meeting place for various Conservative politicians ( whom Argetoianu repeatedly described as " Conservative wrecks ").

These included the three represented in the outgoing legislature: the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP-PSD ), the Democratic Convergence Party ( PCD ) and the Independent Democratic Action ( ADI ).

* Clemente Guido, Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD )-14. 04 %

* Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD )-14 seats

* Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD )-3 seats

In January 1908, Take Ionescu left to found the Conservative Democratic Party ( Partidul Conservator-Democrat, PCD ).

After volunteering in the presidential campaigns of 1976 and 1982, serving as an advisor to the secretary-general in 1988 and being elected to the Chamber of Deputies, Ebrard Casaubon left the PRI with Manuel Camacho in 1995 to found the now-extinct Party of the Democratic Center ( PCD ).