Splintered by factionalism over the economy and Iceland's role in the European Union ( EU ), the SDP also suffered from being the only party to support Iceland's EU membership application.

Short periods of rule by single-party minority governments, Miettunen government ( 1961 – 62, Centre ) and Paasio's second government ( 1972, SDP ) and of nonpartisan caretaker governments have also interrupted its stay in the government.

William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC ( born Liverpool 28 October 1928 ), usually known as William Rodgers but also often known as Bill Rodgers, was one of the " Gang of Four " of senior British Labour Party politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).

The gathering also enacted a resolution calling for unity with the Social Democratic Party and named a Unity Committee, headed by Morris Hillquit, to attend the forthcoming convention of the SDP and to there make a unity appeal.

The Social Democratic Party ( 社会民主党 Shakai Minshu-tō, often abbreviated to 社民党 Shamin-tō ; also known as the Social Democratic Party of Japan ( abbreviated to SDPJ or SDP in English ) is a political party that advocates for the establishment of a socialist Japan.

Fukushima was also Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety, Social Affairs, and Gender Equality in Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet ( 16 September 2009-28 May 2010 ); the SDP was the junior partner in the DPJ-led government coalition.

For the November 2007 parliamentary election SDP ran on an economic program devised by the previously non-partisan economist Ljubo Jurčić, who was also picked to be the party's candidate for the post of Prime Minister in case of their election victory at a party meeting in July 2007.

SDP recorded mayoral victories in a number of traditionally centre-right leaning coastal cities such as Dubrovnik, Šibenik and Trogir and also managed to win in Vukovar, a city that had been almost destroyed in the Croatian War of Independence and was regarded as HDZ stronghold ever since.

He was also twice a parliamentary candidate for the SDP.

The Albanian minority parties ( DUA, DSCG and AA ) had abstained, noting the failure of the authorities to convince also SDP to sign the treaty on the constitution, which would guarantee them certain provisions, with DUA repeating their demand for changing " mother " to " house ".

Besides Chiam and Ling, the SDP also fielded Ashleigh Seow ( the son of former Solicitor-General Francis Seow ), businessmen Jufrie Mahmood, Cheo Chai Chen and Ng Teck Siong, sales manager Kwan Yue Keng, bank clerical assistant Mohd Shariff Yahya, teacher George Sita, financial futures trader Jimmy Tan, former PAP MP Low Yong Nguan, businesswoman Toh Kim Kiat, construction supervisor Francis Yong Chu Leong and shipping manager Chia Ah Soon.

No SDP member has been elected to Parliament since then ( and Chiam and Low were also the only opposition MPs returned to Parliament at the 2001 and 2006 general elections ).

The Party also unveiled a Shadow Budget in February 2011, as well as its campaign strategy, " The SDP Promise " in April 2011.

The SDP formed a revolutionary parliamentary party with the League of Christian Socialists, which had one seat and the Socialist Party, also with one seat.

* Streaming Download Project ( SDP ) – a free, but closed-source, implementation of the MMS protocol ; reverse-engineered protocol documentation also freely available.

He was also a founding member of the ( now defunct ) Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).

He also served as the SDP / Liberal Alliance's chief defence spokesman from 1983 to 1987.

At the 1991 general elections, two other SDP members, Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen, were also elected to Parliament.

In July 2012, Minister of War Veterans and a member of SDP Predrag Matić has also expressed his support for LGBT adoption and said that society should not falter in achieving equal rights due to pressure coming from right-wing and radical circles.

In July 2012, Minister of War Veterans and a member of SDP Predrag Matić has also expressed his support for LGBT adoption and said that society should not falter in achieving equal rights due to pressure coming from right-wing and radical circles.

Ever since the 1998 election, SDP continued to be a part of every Đukanović-led pre-election coalition ( three more elections since then ) and as a result SDP has also been a part of every Montenegrin government.

Its most prominent claim to fame was as the seat of William Ewart Gladstone between 1868 and 1880, and it also achieved prominence in the 1987 Greenwich by-election, when the SDP won a surprise victory.

Nominated as an SDP candidate, Rigg also received support from the more centrist Labour Representation Committee.

The SDP came second in many constituencies, including nearly 70 % of the Conservative-won seats, though the bulk of Labour's defectors to the SDP in 1981 lost their seats, but Britain's first past the post electoral system meant that this success did not translate into parliamentary seats.

He did leave Labour to become one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party ( UK ) and was the SDP spokesman on education in the Lords for a time.

However, he did not announce his membership of the Social Democratic Party or SDP for another four years.

SDP then barely managed to pass the threshold in the following 1992 general election, but it did succeed in establishing itself as the strongest social democratic option.

Far-right British nationalist parties such as the British National Party are noted for using the colours of the Union Jack, as did the centrist Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).

* Social Democratic Party ( UK, 1990 – present ), the rump successor to the SDP which did not merge into the Liberal Democrats.

In the 1914 provincial election, the SPC ran George Armstrong and Bill Hoop for the two Winnipeg Centre seats, but did not challenge the SDP in Winnipeg North.

His rise in influence among SDP politicians and on the Zagreb political scene created a backlash by the Croatian People's Party ( HNS ), the other left-of-center party led by Vesna Pusić, who did not trust his nationalist populism and his occasional run-ins with the courts.

He was well regarded by other Labour statesmen including Tony Benn, but came under heavy criticism from others including Denis Healey, who condemned the SDP split as a " disaster " for the Labour Party which prolonged their time in opposition and allowed the Tories to have an unbroken run of nearly 20 years in government.

In Istria, however, IDS is bitterly opposed by local branches of SDP, as well as their former member and first Istrian prefect Luciano Delbianco who had defected and formed a new party called Istrian Democratic Forum.

In the SDP design phase one defines the business information models, identity management, products, content, devices, and the end-user service characteristics, as well as how agile the system is so that it can deal with the evolution of the business and its customers.

This served SDP very well, which made Tomac into one of their most prominent members and thus gained enough nationalist credentials to improve its electoral chances in the long run.

However the progress of the SDP-Liberal Alliance as a whole was hampered with policy splits between the two parties, first over the miners ' strike ( 1984-5 ) where Owen and most of the SDP favoured a fairly tough line but the Liberals preferred compromise and negotiation.

For AdvOSS, making the platform programmable and enhanceable made much sense as the whole idea behind using a SDP is to attain the advantage of developing and integrating new services into the system at a brisk pace.

A comeback of sorts was seen during the 1960s and 1970s, but it was not until 1981, when the Liberals allied with the newly formed SDP to form the SDP-Liberal Alliance, that the party enjoyed significant electoral success.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

Most SDP members voted in favour of the merger, but SDP leader David Owen objected and continued to lead a " rump " SDP, with the merger of the two parties being completed in March 1988 to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, becoming the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.

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.

Although the SDP was seen as being largely a breakaway from the right wing of the Labour Party, an internal party survey found that 60 % of its members had not belonged to a political party before, with 25 % being drawn from Labour, 10 % from the Conservatives and 5 % from the Liberals.

The Lipponen cabinets set the stability record, and were unusual in the respect that both moderate ( SDP ) and radical left wing ( Left Alliance ) parties sat in the government with the major right-wing party ( National Coalition ).

The formation of the SDP – who formed an alliance with the Liberal Party in June 1981 – contributed to a fall in Labour support.

* The RTP profile for Audio and video conferences with minimal control ( RFC 3551 ) defines a set of static payload type assignments, and a mechanism for mapping between a payload format, and a payload type identifier ( in header ) using Session Description Protocol ( SDP ).

In 1981, dismayed with the Labour Party's continuing leftward drift, he was one of the " Gang of Four "-Labour moderates who formed the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).

In 1982 he won a famous by-election in a Conservative seat and returned to parliament ; but after disappointment with the performance of the SDP in the 1983 election he resigned as SDP leader.

As one of the so-called " Gang of Four ", he was a founder of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

SDP started off as a component of the Session Announcement Protocol ( SAP ), but found other uses in conjunction with Real-time Transport Protocol ( RTP ), Real-time Streaming Protocol ( RTSP ), Session Initiation Protocol ( SIP ) and even as a standalone format for describing multicast sessions.

The city council and city board have long been dominated by the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Coalition Party ( Kokoomus / Samlingspartiet ), with approximately equal representation.

Currently, the council has 67 members, with 20 from Kokoomus and 15 from SDP.

Four Labour MPs who defected to the SDP in early 1981 said they voted against Healey to land the Labour Party with an unelectable left-wing leader and so help their new party.

" Long Island Wildin '" was a collaboration with Japanese hip hop artists Kan Takagi ( Major Force ) and trio Scha Dara Parr ( SDP ).

In 1981, unhappy with the influence of the far left in the Labour Party, she resigned from it to form the SDP, along with Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers.

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.

The SDP fought its first by-election, in Warrington, with future leader Roy Jenkins standing as " SDP with Liberal support ".