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.

The Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) was a centrist political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988.

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.

SDP polling agents were given special dispensation by the Returning Officer to have placards outside of polling stations to state which one on the ballot papers was the ' real Roy '.

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

In 1993 SDP chairman Ulf Sundqvist was suspected and later convicted of a large financial fraud.

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 ).

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.

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.

Officially, this was the desired answer for the SDP delegation that had visited her two days earlier.

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.

Kekkonen had warned against this, but was ignored by SDP.

That year, he was supported by five political parties: the Centre Party, the Social Democrats, the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders ( a short-lived SDP faction ), the Finnish People's Democratic League ( a communist front ), and the Swedish People's Party.

Shortly after entering the House of Commons, he was appointed SDP – Liberal Alliance spokesman on Trade and Industry and then on Education.

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

* The designation of the party leader was made by the party's congress in the eighteen remaining parties: Austria ( SPÖ ), Bulgaria ( БСП ), Czech Republic ( ČSSD ), Estonia ( SDE ), Finland ( SDP ), Germany ( SPD ), Hungary ( MSZP ), Latvia ( LSDSP ), Lithuania ( SDPL ), Luxembourg ( LSAP ), Malta ( LP ), Poland ( SLD, UP ), Rumania ( PSD ), Slovakia ( SMER-SD ), Slovenia ( SD ), Spain ( PSOE ), Sweden ( SAP ), United-Kingdom / Northern Ireland ( SDLP )

Originally a Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Cabinet Minister, she was one of the " Gang of Four " rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in 1981.

The SDP – Liberal Alliance was a centrist electoral pact formed by the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom which was in existence from 1981 to 1988, when the bulk of the two parties merged to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, later referred to as simply the Liberal Democrats.

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.

* Stuart Price, a British music producer who occasionally remixes under the moniker SDP

Both the SDP and the Liberal party were committed to proportional representation, under which system they would have elected more MPs to the House of Commons.

Small factions of both parties established new parties under the names of the SDP and the Liberal Party but, as each was made up of those members who least trusted the other party, there was no chance that the two ' continuing ' parties would co-operate.

) Owen and the party's national executive dissolved the party in 1990, but another group of party members continue the party under the SDP name.

Moreover, under him, the SDP increased its representation from 6 to 8 seats via the by-election victories of Mike Hancock, at Portsmouth South ( 1984 ), and Rosie Barnes, at Greenwich ( 1987 ).

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.

Thus just prior the parliamentary election of 1992, an agreement was reached between the Social Democratic Renewal ( SDP ) and three smaller extra-parliamentary cenre-left and left-wing parties ( the Social Democratic Union, the Workers ' Party of Slovenia and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia ) to form an electoral coalition under the name United List.

Most significantly, the SDP engineered an agreement with the other opposition parties to contest just under half the seats in Parliament, thus creating a " by-election effect " ( reassuring voters that there would not be a change in government and encouraging them to elect more opposition voices ).

In 1993, three months after joining the SDP, Chee was dismissed by the National University of Singapore ( NUS ) for allegedly using research funds to pay the courier fees ( under $ 200 ) to send his wife's PhD dissertation to the United States.

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

After the election he became an early proponent of a merger between the SDP and the Liberals under a single leader, largely to avoid disputes over allocations of Parliamentary seats.

A mixed group of 200 troops were kept at Kushtia, another similar group under Jhenida SDP Mahbubuddin took position near Kaliganj south of Jhenida.

In 2002 Bandić fled from the scene of a motor vehicle accident while under the influence of alcohol ( an incident heavily covered by the media ), and the SDP council compelled him to resign.

The council they formed became the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ), with a collective leadership.

In 1982, uneasy about the Alliance, Owen challenged Jenkins for the leadership of the SDP, but was defeated by 26, 256 votes to 20, 864.

Although elected, Jenkins resigned the SDP leadership and Owen succeeded to it without a contest among the 6 remaining SDP MPs.

Under Jenkins's leadership, the SDP joined the Liberals in the SDP-Liberal Alliance, an electoral alliance that was so promising in its early days that Steel felt able to tell delegates at the Liberal Assembly that year to

Shortly afterwards David Owen replaced Roy Jenkins as leader of the SDP and the troubled leadership of the " Two Davids " was inaugurated.

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 ).

While viewed indecisive as prime minister, he proved to be very skilful in maintaining SDP party leadership for over fifteen years.

The PAP chose to highlight Ling's dismissal from the police force and the record of his election agent, but these were quickly rebutted by the SDP leadership.

He is known for his leadership of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2004 the Democratic Alternative ( DA ), led by Nebojša Čović, merged into the SDP and assumed leadership over the party.

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.

Chee joined the SDP in 1992, and became its Secretary-General following the resignation of the party's founder, Chiam See Tong ( with whom Chee and the rest of the party's leadership have had a number of disagreements ).