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.

The formation of the SDP and the subsequent alliance came at a time when the British economy was in a deep recession and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was proving deeply unpopular as unemployment had risen from just over 1, 500, 000 since they came to power in May 1979 to 3, 000, 000 and beyond by 1982, mainly due to the closure of many factories as part of the battle against inflation.

The SDP was a minor party by the time the reality of the Japanese abductees taken by North Korea came to light in 2003.

In the 1983 general election, he stood as SDP / Alliance candidate in Dulwich, but came 3rd with 22 % of the votes.

When the SDP came into political power on a platform of economic reform and anti-corruption, Lagumdžija was lauded by the Western powers as the hopeful " face of a pluralistic, united Bosnia.

Gradually, this increased co-operation caused the ULP Remnant and the SDP to conclude that full unification was not impossible, and in 1916, the two finally came together ( along with various independents ) to form the Labour Party, which still survives today.

Supported by David Owen, Slipman stood for the SDP in the working class constituency of Hayes & Harlington and came a poor third.

The SDP came just 1500 votes from winning in 1987 under Malcolm Dean.

The SDP candidate, local farmer Mike Potter, came second, and Hague's majority of 2, 634 was considerably smaller than the number of votes for the Social and Liberal Democrat candidate Barbara Peace combined ( 11, 589 votes in third place ).

On November 18, a group of angry railway workers came to see the SDP leaders, telling party leader Kullervo Manner to his face " you have betrayed the workers, the strike must go on until a socialist government is established.

He appeared as himself in the first episode of ITV comedy The New Statesman, coming second in the 1987 election, ahead of the Labour and SDP, which saw Alan B ' Stard elected to Parliament.

In the 1987 general election, the share of the vote for each party fell slightly ; the Liberals won 17 seats ( the same as in 1983 ), while the SDP won five ( one fewer than four years previously ), while Labour were firmly established as Britain's second political party with a much stronger showing than in 1983, although the Conservatives still achieved a third successive election win with Mrs Thatcher still at the helm.

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.

Bradley stood for the SDP at the election, but it was the Conservative candidate Peter Bruinvels who beat Hewitt into second place by just 933 votes.

After its electoral defeat in 1996 when it lost another 15 of its remaining 30 seats in the lower house, the SDP left the ruling coalition which it had entered as the second largest force in Japanese politics as a minor party.

Under his leadership, SKH re-branded themselves as the " Party of Democratic Reform " ( Stranka demokratskih promjena or SDP ) in February 1990 and then ran in the 1990 election as " SKH-SDP ", winning 26 percent of votes and coming in second behind the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ).

That same month SKH had rebranded themselves as the " Party of Democratic Reform " ( Stranka demokratskih promjena or SDP ) and went on to run in the 1990 election as SKH-SDP, coming in second behind the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 26 percent of votes and a total of 107 seats in the 351-seat parliament.

In the 2005 presidential race SDP opted to support independent incumbent Stjepan Mesić, who succeeded in winning his second term by an overwhelming majority of 65. 9 percent of the vote in the run-off in front of HDZ candidate and runner-up Jadranka Kosor with 34. 1 percent.

In the election of 25 November SDP finished a close second behind HDZ, with 56 out of 153 seats.

Josipović later won the 2009 – 10 election with 60 percent of the vote in the second round in front of former SDP member and populist Mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandić and was officially inaugurated on 18 February 2010.

He left the Labour Party and joined the new Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in 1981, and became the leader of the council in 1989 until his second election to the House of Commons, and he remains a member for Fratton on the city council.

The term " substantive due process " ( SDP ), is commonly used in two ways: first to identify a particular line of case law, and second to signify a particular attitude toward judicial review under the Due Process Clause.

The party chose to target the government on the plan to amend the constitution, and that the economic prosperity indicators it used were untrue When the results were declared, it emerged that the SDP was the only opposition party to win a seat, with Chiam re-elected as Potong Pasir MP for a second term.

SDP became the second largest party in Parliament.

Although a majority of SDP MPs thought that the party should vote in favor of the second reading of the Tebbit Bill to emphasize the party's distance from Labour and the Trades Union Congress and then offer its own amendments.

He contested the safe Conservative seat of Carshalton and Wallington for the SDP in 1987 where he finished second.

At the 1983 general election the SDP – Liberal Alliance won many votes but few seats, and Rodgers lost his seat of Stockton North ( known as Stockton-on-Tees before the boundary changes of 1983 ).

A separate commemoration was organized by SDP at the Lisinski Concert Hall, which was attended by the President, Prime Minister, a host of other dignitaries and many party members.

When the Party was founded, few people took it seriously and many commentators speculated that the ultimate purpose of HSU was take away pensioners ' votes from rejuvenated SDP and thus help ruling HDZ remain in power.

The gouvernmant is made by coalition of Social Democrats ( SDP ) and Conservative People Party ( SDA ) Like many other heads of executive branches of government in the world, the Premier has a cabinet which helps him go about his duties.

Ivo JosipovićCroatian President Ivo Josipović provides strong support for full LGBT rights, along with many other celebrities and centre-left political parties such as SDP, HNS, HSLS, Green List, and Labour Party.

On the 1995 parliamentary elections many of its voters switched to rejuvenated Social Democratic Party of Croatia ( SDP ) and a centrist coalition.

In 1981 the LCC supported the campaign of Tony Benn against Denis Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, but many were deeply unhappy with Benn's campaign and approach and the LCC began to evolve into a body aiming to rescue the party from the mess it found itself in as the SDP split and Benn's campaign imprinted an image of extremism in the minds of the voters.

The " Total votes " and " Percentage " columns include sums of votes won by pre-election coalitions SDP had been part of and the " Total seats " column includes sums of seats won by SDP in election constituencies plus representatives of ethnic minorities affiliated with SDP.

IDS instead made its electoral debut on 1992 elections and used the collapse of the SDP to take all three Istrian constituencies.

The SDP also did well as a whole, with the entire party garnering 45. 2 % of total votes cast in the constituencies they had contested in.

The SDP scored 39. 5 % of the total votes cast in all the constituencies it had contested in.

This allowed SDP to win some constituencies, especially in urban, middle-class and ethnic Serb areas.

After boundary changes in which Islington's three constituencies were combined into two a further inter party dispute occurred as all three Islington MPs had moved from Labour to the SDP.

Foreign political analysts and several opposition parties including the Workers ' Party of Singapore and the Singapore Democratic Party ( SDP ) have argued that Singapore is a de facto one-party state.

In August 1958, Karl-August Fagerholm's third cabinet, a coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and including Kekkonen's party Agrarian League, was formed.

* David Owen resigns as SDP leader ( BBC News On This Day webpage, including news report footage )

Devonport has had a number of prominent MPs, including Leslie Hore-Belisha, Michael Foot ( who began his Commons career in the seat ), and the former SDP leader David Owen ( Who was its longest-served MP ).

After that Budiša finally realised that the only way to get power lies in a broad coalition of all opposition parties, including SDP.