Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia.

The party's new leader, David Steel, negotiated the Lib-Lab pact with Wilson's successor as Prime Minister, James Callaghan.

Most of the party's senior figures lost their seats, including Arthur Henderson, the party leader.

MOP chose to endorse Calixte, instead of a candidate from its own ranks, because the party's leader, Daniel Fignolé, was only twenty-six years old — too young to stand for the nation's highest office.

Prominent Communists who became victims of these purges and were defendants in the Prague Trials included Rudolf Slánský, the party's general secretary, Vlado Clementis ( the Foreign Minister ) and Gustáv Husák ( the leader of an administrative body responsible for Slovakia ), who was dismissed from office for " bourgeois nationalism ".

However, it has strengthened once more after the Labour party's election of Ed Milliband who beat his brother David Milliband, to become leader of the party after Ed secured the trade unions votes.

St-Laurent was succeeded as Liberal Party leader by his former Secretary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, Lester B. Pearson, at the party's leadership convention in 1958.

The party's federal parliamentary leader since 3 December 2007, following the coalition's defeat at the 2007 federal election, is Warren Truss.

Nonetheless, Bruce readily agreed, and the " Bruce-Page Ministry " was formed — thus beginning the tradition of the party's leader ranking second in Coalition cabinets.

This came less than a year after the death of his successor as Labour leader John Smith and the election of Tony Blair as the party's new leader.

A safe seat is usually chosen ; while the Liberal and now defunct Progressive Conservative parties traditionally observed a convention of not running a candidate against another party's new leader in the by-election, the New Democrats and other smaller parties typically do not follow the same convention.

Meighen stepped down as Tory leader, and Bennett became the party's leader in 1927 at the first Conservative leadership convention.

In the UK, the Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock made a passionate and public attack against the party's Militant Tendency at a Labour Party conference, and repudiated the demands of the defeated striking miners after the 1984 – 1985 strike against pit closures.

In 1978 the labour party's longtime leader, Robert Bradshaw, died of prostate cancer.

In addition to her own party's support, the leader of the Left Alliance, Suvi-Anne Siimes, gave her support for Halonen's future campaign.

In what is known as " presidential coattails ", candidates in presidential elections become the de facto leader of their respective party, and thus usually bring out supporters who in turn then vote for his party's candidates for other offices.

Although the new party was dominated by former Nationalists, Lyons was chosen as the new party's leader, and thus became Leader of the Opposition.

** After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Their members identify themselves more with the party's ideology than with its leader, so they have an abstract adhesion.

From 1926 when Lloyd George became leader of the Liberals, Keynes took a major role in defining the party's economics policy, but by then the Liberals had been displaced into third party status by the Labour party.

Harrison had managed to distance himself from the losses, but Clay, as the party's philosophical leader, could not.

Clay, the party's most prominent congressional leader, was chosen on the first ballot despite having lost two prior presidential elections: in 1824 to John Quincy Adams as a Democrat-Republican, then in 1832 to Andrew Jackson as a National Republican.

The Liberals were officially leaderless until 1873, but Brown was considered the party's " elder statesman " even without a seat in the House of Commons, and was regularly consulted by leading Liberal parliamentarians.

During the party's six-month drift on a gradually-shrinking icefloe, Hendrik and the Canadian Inuk Ebierbing managed to provide food for the entire party ; they were eventually picked up by a sealer in April 1873.

The party gained ground in the 1923 general election but ominously made most of its gains from Conservatives whilst losing ground to Labour – a sign of the party's direction for many years to come.

* 2008 – In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.

* Altes Theater am Jerichower Platz – former theater, used for party's and congresses

* Festung Mark – Part of the former town fortification, now rebuilt for party's and conventions

* Kunstkantine – Factory canteen, monthly electro music party's

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

It was widely perceived that Indira Gandhi was grooming Rajiv for the prime minister's job, and he soon became the president of the Youth Congress – the Congress party's youth wing.

* March 26 – U. S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination.

Marxism – Leninism was the party's official ideology.

The following year, Heath – who was Shadow Chancellor at the time, and had recently won favourable publicity for leading the fight against Labour's Finance Bill – unexpectedly won the party's leadership contest, gaining 150 votes to Reginald Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.

He returned to Côte d ' Ivoire on 13 September 1988 and at the FPI's constitutive congress, held on 19 – 20 November 1988, he was elected as the party's Secretary-General.

Sassou Nguesso was re-elected for a five year term as President of the PCT Central Committee and President of the Republic at the party's Third Ordinary Congress on July 27 – July 31, 1984 ; he was sworn in for his new term on November 10, 1984, and on this occasion he announced the release of Yhombi-Opango.

With Martov's return from European exile in early May, the left wing of the party challenged the party's majority led by Tsereteli at the first post-revolutionary party conference on May 9, but the Right wing prevailed 44 – 11.

Ashdown had long been on his party's social democratic wing, supporting the 1977 Lib-Lab pact, and the SDP – Liberal Alliance.

The political crisis of 1988 – 89 was testimony to both the party's strength and its weakness.

In 1925, Relander was nominated as his party's candidate for that year's presidential election – his nomination only being confirmed just days before election day.

Frances Fitzgerald dramatically lost the party's only seat at the 2002 general election, leaving Fine Gael for the first time in the constituency's history without a Fine Gael TD even though commentators regarded Dublin South – East as " natural Fine Gael " electoral territory.

He was his party's parliamentary leader in the periods of 1981 – 1983, 1986 – 1989, 1993 – 1997, 1997 and 2000 – 2001, and party leader from 1983 to 1995.

According to the Party's official historian this period was marked by a growing division between the practitioners of cultural politics – heavily inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci and party's powerful industrial department which advocated a policy of militant labourism.