Franjo Tuđman's Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) won by a relatively slim margin against Ivica Račan's reformed communist Party of Democratic Change ( SDP ).

In the Croatian presidential election, 2009-2010, Ivo Josipović, the candidate of the SDP won a landslide victory.

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.

Later that year, following the death of Conservative Sir Graham Page, she won a by-election in Crosby in Merseyside, becoming the first elected SDP MP.

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.

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 ).

In the Upper House Elections of 2004, SDP won only two seats, thus having five seats in the Japanese Upper House and six seats in the Lower House.

Three – Bayswater, Maida Vale and Millbank, had been narrowly won by Labour, a further three, St. James's, Victoria and Cavendish had been narrowly lost by them, in West End ward an Independent had split the two seats with the Conservatives while in Hamilton Terrace the Conservatives were threatened by the SDP.

SDP first won power in 2000 and formed a coalition government headed by Prime Minister Ivica Račan.

In the most recent 2011 election SDP won 61 ( one of them was elected as an independent, but sits in the SDP parliamentary club ) out of 151 seats in the Parliament of Croatia which makes it the largest party in Parliament.

In the August 1992 election, the first election held according to the new Constitution of Croatia which had been adopted in the meantime, SDP won 5. 52 percent of the popular vote and a total of 11 seats in the 138-seat parliament.

In the following 1995 election, SDP won 8. 93 percent of the popular vote and a total of 10 seats in the parliament, coming in fourth behind the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ), Croatian Peasant Party ( HSS ) and the Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ).

It might have won the domestic election, but as SDP doesn't participate in diaspora constituency, it lost in the overall tally.

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.

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.

At the last legislative elections in Montenegro on the 10 September 2006, DPS along with Social Democratic Party of Montenegro ( SDP ) as the Coalition for a European Montenegro won 39 out of 81 seats, and the right to appoint the Government.

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

SDP is designed to be extensible to support new media types and formats.

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.

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

After the Continuation War, and while still in prison, Tanner became the virtual leader of a faction of the SDP which had strong support from the USA.

However, when it became clear that the NCP and the SDP would continue to support EU bailouts, which the True Finns vehemently opposed during the electoral campaign, the True Finns voluntarily broke from the negotiations in order to become the leading opposition party.

# Happiness is A Warm Gun ( September 13, 1987 ) – Alan B ' Stard, a deceitful, lecherous, and brutal yuppie who has made his fortune via a variety of shady deals and frauds, is elected as the Conservative MP for the constituency of Haltemprice in Yorkshire, after having the brake lines cut on the cars of his Labour and SDP opponents on the eve of the election, putting them on life support and giving him " the largest majority in Parliament.

Following the end of the war of independence in 1995, Croatian voters were becoming more concerned with social issues, and in such circumstances SDP gradually began to consolidate support at the expense of other opposition parties, most notably the social liberals, HSLS.

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.

She later refused to support the subsequent merger of the SDP with the Liberals ( to form the Liberal Democrats ), reacting instead by rejoining Labour when the rump SDP collapsed.

Pitt won the Croydon North West by-election on 22 October 1981 with a majority of 3, 254 ( standing as " Liberal with SDP support ").

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.

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.

The party had high hopes of gathering support beyond disenchanted SDP voters after Croatian Spring leader Miko Tripalo left Croatian People's Party in order to join them.

A minor party, according to all polls, with minuscule popular support in Montenegro, SDP has nevertheless managed to play a notable part on the republic's political scene during the last decade.

A year later the SDP withdrew its support of the government resulting in its fall and an early election.

In August 2005 the SDP refused to support the proposed pension and oil industry laws.

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

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

From 1981, however, his involvement with the SDP meant he developed a large personal following in the constituency and thereafter he was re-elected as an SDP candidate with safe margins.

Minshuto made large gains and the SDP maintained its base of 7 seats in the 2009 elections, becoming a junior partner in a new left government coalition.

It ran on the Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2001 as the " Victory is Montenegro's " ( composed of the rump remains of the once large coalition ; Democratic Party of Socialists and its sole partner, SDP ).

Within an SDP message there are three main sections, detailing the session, timing, and media descriptions.

The Session Description Protocol ( SDP ) is a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters.

SDP does not deliver media itself but is used for negotiation between end points of media type, format, and all associated properties.

After being placed as the acting SDP leader in 1993, Chee began expressing his views on the lack of democracy in Singapore to the media.

On August 2005, the SDP launched a political podcast named RadioSDP, a first in Singapore, which was seen as a by-pass to the state-controlled mass media.

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.