The party's leader Antonin Svehla ( 1873 – 1933 ) was prime minister several times.

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.

After the primary results, he immediately gained the pledged support of the other contenders for the party's nomination, including Aubry, Arnaud Montebourg, Manuel Valls and 2007 candidate Ségolène Royal.

His party's proposal redress the Head Tax also did not help his campaign, as the Liberals had not consulted many of the major Canadian-Chinese groups ( despite claiming to ), the promised amount was reduced to from $ 12. 5 million to $ 2. 5 million, and the pre-condition was that the government would make no apology, while the three opposition parties pledged to make a full apology.

When Peters was sacked from Cabinet, Delamere openly supported the move, and pledged his support to the National Party government regardless of his party's stance.

As part of a break between the MAS-IPSP and its ally the Without Fear Movement ( MSM ), the latter party's four deputies, elected on the MAS slate pledged in late March 2010, " to act in accord with our political identity, with our conscience, and with the people who elected us with their vote.

As part of a break between the MSM and its ally the Movement for Socialism ( MAS-IPSP ), the party's four deputies, elected on the MAS slate left the MAS ranks and pledged in late March 2010, " to act in accord with our political identity, with our conscience, and with the people who elected us with their vote.

* Base ( politics ), a group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates

Lenin wanted members " who recognise the Party Programme and support it by material means and by personal participation in one of the party's organisations.

The party's newspaper Proleter ( December 1932 ) stated: " salute the Ustaša movement of the peasants of Lika and Dalmatia and fully support them.

In 1999, the party's support collapsed and it became the country's fifth largest party.

For example, Gorbachev quickly became the party's de facto Second Secretary, even though Chernenko did not support him.

Direct examination is usually performed to elicit evidence in support of facts which will satisfy a required element of a party's claim or defense.

By the end of 2010, the party's support had dropped to as low as 5 %.

Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.

Shortly thereafter, the party council of the Left Alliance gave the party's official support to Halonen.

It should also be noted that while more often than not, party members will " toe the line " and support their party's policies, they are free to vote against their own party and vote with the opposition (" cross the aisle ") when they please.

Often, Vice Presidents will take harder-line stands on issues to ensure the support of the party's base while deflecting partisan criticism away from the President.

An article in The Observer suggested that her position near the top of the list indicated that the party's leadership saw her as a valuable asset in the election with regard to solidifying support among the party's grassroots and the poor.

" However, Willkie's greatest support came from the party's internationalist wing, which wanted the US to provide all the aid possible to the Allies ( especially Britain ), short of a formal declaration of war.

Jörg Haider's populism and criticism of the Proporz system allowed him to gradually expand his party's support in elections, rising from 4 % in 1983 to 27 % in 1999.

Although Daley and Taylor declined at first, at Partee's insistence, Washington was slated for the seat and received the party's support.

In early 1880 Garfield endorsed John Sherman for the party's Presidential nomination in exchange for Sherman's earlier support of Garfield for the Senate.

His support of giving all aid to the British " short of declaring war " won him the support of many Republicans on the East Coast, who disagreed with their party's isolationist leaders in Congress.

The LPF also won support from some ethnic minorities ; one of Fortuyn's closest associates was of Cape Verdean origin, and one of the party's MPs was a young woman of Turkish descent.

Outside of the party's initial position on the war, party members were free to choose for themselves their level of support for the war effort.

In law, standing or locus standi is the term for the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party's participation in the case.

The LPF also won support from some ethnic minorities ; one of Fortuyn's closest associates was of Cape Verdean origin, and one of the party's MPs was a young woman of Turkish descent.