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.

The party's headquarters are in Saint Paul.

The party's popular vote almost doubled in the 2004 election, which gave the NDP the balance of power in Paul Martin's minority government.

Despite her efforts to build support among women, minority groups and the party's left-wing, she began and ended the leadership contest well behind the overwhelming favourite, Paul Martin, whose supporters controlled the party machinery ; John Manley departed from the running before the vote.

In 2003 she was selected as the party's candidate in the Brent East by-election, which was called after death of the Labour MP Paul Daisley.

In late 2004 McCarten was replaced as leader by two co-leaders, Jill Ovens and Paul Piesse and the party's remaining membership voted to contest the list vote.

There was also growing tension between some former PRM members in PKR with the leadership over what was perceived as a growing influence of neoconservatism within the new party stemming from the personal friendship between the party's leader, Anwar Ibrahim and Paul Wolfowitz.

The 2003 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election ended on November 14, 2003, electing former Finance Minister Paul Martin as the party's new leader, replacing outgoing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

The winner in New Hampshire has not always gone on to win their party's nomination, as demonstrated by Republicans Harold Stassen in 1948, Henry Cabot Lodge in 1964, Pat Buchanan in 1996, and John McCain in 2000 and Democrats Estes Kefauver in 1952 and 1956, Paul Tsongas in 1992, and Hillary Clinton in 2008.

The party's last public act was a rally held on November 14, 1965 in Montreal's Paul Sauvé Arena with 850 of Arcand's followers in attendance.

In the run-up to the 1997 election, the party's board voted to support Paul Hellyer's Canadian Action Party because of that party's support for monetary reform.

Paul Hinman was elected the party's leader at a leadership convention held on November 19, 2005.

The founder of the party, Paul van Buitenen, announced the party's establishment on 8 April 2004.

He was strongly opposed by the party's right wing, but this faction was divided between former Minister of Trade and Commerce Robert Winters and Minister of Transport Paul Hellyer, and failed to mount a united opposition.

The unopposed Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, Charles L. Sullivan of Clarksdale, had defeated in his party's primary Governor Paul Johnson, who ran in 1967 for his former post of lieutenant governor.

After the war, the party was led by Paul de Groot, who had a strong grip on the party's organization.

In 1970 Sorensen ran as the Democratic party's designee for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator from New York, but was challenged in the primary election by Richard Ottinger, Paul O ' Dwyer and Max McCarthy, and came in third.

In the early 1970s the radical Edmund Burke Society ( EBS ) infiltrated the party electing Paul Fromm as the party's president and other EBSers to the executive.

" The primary purpose of Libertarians For Life is to push the Libertarian Party toward a more neutral or more pro-life view on abortion, similar to the party's 1988 presidential nominee, Ron Paul.

Paul Martin resigned as Liberal leader after his party's defeat in the 2006 election.

Along with Paul Martin, she co-authored Creating Opportunity, as the party's campaign platform for the 1993 federal election was called.

The party's leader is Paul Hardy.

Paul Holmes gained the seat for the Liberal Democrats at the 2001 general election, the party's first seat in the East Midlands in the House of Commons, but narrowly lost the seat in 2010 to the Labour candidate Toby Perkins ; one of only three seats the Labour Party gained in the 2010 election.

The Dublin Central candidate, Paul O ' Loughlin, has been featured in the party's election broadcast.