Wilson's predecessor as leader, Hugh Gaitskell, had tried in 1960 to tackle the controversy head-on, with a proposal to expunge Clause Four ( the public ownership clause ) from the party's constitution, but had been forced to climb down.

At the New Zealand general election on 17 September 2005, National under Brash's leadership made major gains, and achieved what was at the time the party's best result since the institution of the mixed member proportional electoral system in 1993, compared to their worst result ever in 2002 under the leadership of his predecessor, Bill English.

When the Liberal Party and its predecessors ( the Nationalist Party and the United Australia Party ) have been in coalition with the National Party or its predecessor the Country Party, the leader of the junior Coalition party has had the right to nominate his party's members of the Coalition ministry, and to be consulted by the Prime Minister on the allocation of their portfolios.

The party's predecessor, Estonian Future Party ( Tuleviku Eesti Erakond ) was founded in 1994.

A Belgian court ruled in 2004 that the party's predecessor Vlaams Blok had encouraged discrimination against foreigners.

As with his predecessor Juan Maria Bordaberry, some observers would argue that the close links between leading Colorado party figures such as Demicheli and the military mirror the similar elements present in the Colorado party's founder, the 19th century President and military patriot, Fructuoso Rivera.

Registered Democrats in New York City this year have the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization.

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.

In an effort to heal residual wounds from the convention, Garfield traveled to New York to bring the party's warring factions together in what was called the " New York Conference ", and what was considered a personal triumph.

Although several candidates were openly competing for the 1916 nomination — most prominently conservative Senator Elihu Root of New York and liberal Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts — the party's bosses wanted a moderate who would be acceptable to both factions of the party.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

From this point forward, the New York governor had the momentum he needed to win his party's second nomination.

In order to obtain or maintain automatic ballot access, a party's candidate for governor of New York must receive 50, 000 votes on that party's line.

The party's greatest appeal was in country areas of New South Wales and Queensland, the traditional heartlands of the junior partner in the non-Labor Coalition, the National Party.

Since the party's defeat in the 2008 general election, Labour has formed the second-largest ( in terms of parliamentary seats ) political party represented in the Parliament of New Zealand, and functions as the core of the Official Parliamentary Opposition.

In the United States, Iowa and New Hampshire have drawn attention every four years because they hold the first caucus and primary election, respectively, and often give a candidate the momentum to win their party's nomination.

Similarly, in New Zealand, some voters who preferred a large party have voted for the minor party's local candidate to ensure it qualifies for list seats on the back of winning a single electorate.

The " New Labour " brand was used to communicate the party's modernisation to the public.

The political philosophy of New Labour was influenced by the party's development of Anthony Giddens ' Third Way, which attempted to provide a synthesis between capitalism and socialism.

In 2002, Anthony Giddens, a leading architect of the Third Way political philosophy, named spin as New Labour's biggest failure, but commended the party's success in certain policy areas and at marginalising the Conservative Party.

In 1997, after 18 years of a Conservative government, New Labour won a landslide victory at the general election, winning a total of 418 seats in the House of Commons — the largest victory in the party's history.

New Labour also used the party's brand to continue this modernisation, and it was used to communicate the modernisation of the party to the public ; the party also began to use focus groups to test whether their policy ideas were attractive to swing voters.

In 2002, Anthony Giddens, a key figure in the development of the Third Way, listed problems facing the New Labour government, naming spin as the biggest failure because its damage to the party's image was difficult to rebound from.

The October 2, 1937, issue of the Socialist Appeal included a convention call from the so-called " Left Wing " to " All Locals and Branches of the Socialist Party ," accusing the NEC of the party of having " betrayed the principles of socialism " by withdrawing the party's candidate for Mayor of New York in favor of LaGuardia and for having ordered " the bureaucratic expulsion of all the revolutionary members of the party who oppose and obstruct this sell-out policy.

The 1881 SLP Convention in New York saw some of the party's anarchist members and one New York section split from the party to form a new party called the Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party, as part of an International Workingman's Association.

In 1891, the party's electoral effort was led by the candidacy of Daniel DeLeon for Governor of New York.

In the 2009 provincial elections, the party placed third winning ( behind the winners, the RPCR, and Caledonia Together ) 11. 71 % and only 6 seats ( 8 including the party's smaller allies ).

The evident contradiction between the rosy picture of Russia's progress painted by the Communist party's program and the enormous dangers for all humanity posed by Premier Khrushchev's Berlin policy has already led to speculation abroad that the program may be severely altered.

Shunted aside by the rampant organizers for John F. Kennedy last year, who relegated it to a somewhat subordinate role in the Presidential campaign, the CDC plainly intends to provide the party's campaign muscle in 1962.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

Was it the party's intention, for example, to abolish gradually the kolkhoz system and replace it by uniformly wage-earning kolkhozes, i.e., state farms ( which were, moreover, to be progressively `` urbanized '' )??

At the 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for vice president.

Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.

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.

The constitution set out the establishment of a " Council for Social Democracy " ( CSD ) which was, in effect, the party's standing conference.

Claret is an " agreeable " wine, and a metaphor for the party's harmonious internal relations compared to those of the strife-torn Labour Party of the period.

Ivashko remained for five days as acting General Secretary until August 29 when the party's activity was suspended by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

The results of the party's choices and the overall storyline for the game are determined by the Dungeon Master ( DM ) according to the rules of the game and the DM's interpretation of those rules.

" DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen followed with a public statement on behalf of the party: " In regard to Chen and his wife's decision to withdraw from the party and his desire to shoulder responsibility for his actions as well as to undergo an investigation by the party's anti-corruption committee, we respect his decision and accept it.

Yet the party's group in parliament voted against an oppositional motion for gay marriage, in order not to threaten the coalition with the Christian democrats.

At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.

With a split in the state Republican party, 1882 looked to be a Democratic year, and there were several contenders for that party's nomination.

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.

Any hope for his party's winning the 1993 election was predicated on improving social programs, addressing employment needs, and appeasing a disgruntled, vocal public sector.

After a turbulent year in office in which he saw his approval ratings plummet to the single digits, Prime Minister Mori agreed to hold early elections for the LDP presidency in order to improve his party's chances in crucial July 2001 Upper House elections.

He ran for the party's Presidential nomination in 2000, finishing second to Ralph Nader.

By the age of 16, Booth was interested in the theatre and in politics, becoming a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections.

Lacking serious opposition, the Republican party's Congressional caucus stopped meeting, and for practical purposes the Republican Party stopped operating.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.