A separate party, the Joh-inspired NT Nationals, competed in the 1987 election with former Chief Minister Ian Tuxworth winning his seat of Barkly by a small margin.

The Whig Party, which had been one of the two major parties in the U. S., had disintegrated since the 1852 election over the issue of slavery, and new parties such as the Republican Party and American Party, or “ Know Nothing Party ” competed to replace it as a major party.

He competed for the presidency of the LDP in September 1995 and July 1998, but he gained little support losing decisively to Ryutaro Hashimoto and then Keizō Obuchi, both of whom had broader bases of support within the party.

While the ON had competed in some local elections since 1970, at its second congress in June 1972 it decided to establish a new political party to contest the 1973 legislative elections.

The party competed for votes with the supporters of the Democratic Choice ( which later stepped down from running in the election ) and with Meretz-Yachad, which had also promised to act for the decriminalization of soft drugs ; another competitor was the Green Party with a strong ecological platform.

From 1972 to 1986, the centrist party with which COPE competed was The Electors ' Action Movement, which governed the city under prominent federal Liberal Mayor Art Phillips in the mid 1970s.

A party named the Democratic Labor Party has competed in all elections since 1955.

Libertarians briefly competed for the leadership in the California branch of the party and several of their candidates for public office were nominated, but left following a split at the 1974 convention where the California Secretary of State ruled that the convention that voted to make the party socialist was the official party in California.

Local parties competed with renewed ferocity to dominate provincial and municipal governments, as whichever party dominated the provinces would also gain control over the electoral and political system.

The party competed independently in the 2012 parliamentary elections in May 2012 and won 7 % of the poular vote ( 273, 532 votes ) translating into 21 Members of Parliament.

The party competed against the parties affiliated with Pridi Phanomyong and the Progress Party ( Thailand ) of brothers Seni and Kukrit Pramoj.

He competed with fellow party member Agustín Rossi in the primary elections held on 1 July 2007, and was elected candidate of the Justicialist Party for the governorship of Santa Fe by a wide margin.

This success can be attributed to several developments: the rising opposition to the Cold War, the party's appeal to the developing students ' movement and especially the anarchist Provo movement, for whom the PSP was the only acceptable party, and finally the CPN's internal conflicts-in 1958 three MPs had left the CPN and formed their own parliamentary party, led by Henk Gortzak, called the Bridge Group ( Dutch: Brug-groep ) and unsuccessfully competed in the 1959 elections.

The party was born in a time of serious division in the British far right and competed with a number of other parties for attention.

Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani backed Janaki Ramachandran's fragment of the party and lost in all seats its competed for.

Both groups competed in Congo's first parliamentary elections in June 1960, in which Lumumba's party emerged as the largest party.

Traditionally there have been no formally organized political parties ; what has existed more closely resembles factions or interest groups because they do not have party headquarters, formal platforms, or party structures ; the following two " groupings " have competed in legislative balloting in recent years-Kabua Party ( Imata Kabua ) and the United Democratic Party ( UDP ) ( Litokwa Tomeing ).

Throughout its years of existence, the Hlinka Guard competed with the Hlinka party for primacy in ruling the country.

That prince had three grand masters in succession sentenced to death, as having incurred his suspicion: the first of these was beheaded ( 1355 ) on a charge of having entered into a league with the King of Aragon ; the second Estevañez, having competed for the grand mastership with the king's candidate, García de Padilla, was murdered in the royal palace, by the king's own treacherous hand ; lastly García de Padilla himself, a brother of the royal mistress, fell into disgrace, upon deserting the king's party for that of his half brother, Henry the Bastard, and died in prison ( 1369 ).

He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

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.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

He seems strong enough inside the party to cope with any internal opposition ; ;

It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.

However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.

The searching party consisted of the police captain, Welch, Barco, policemen with shovels, newspaper reporters, and cameramen.

a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown `` starlet '', leaving me `` high and dry '' to get home as best I could.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

She had had a party with a regular visitor, Dr. William W. McClellan.

Sweden's conservative party, the Moderate Party, was formed in 1904, two years after the founding of the liberal party.

Moderate right-leaning Eurosceptic parties include the Gaullist Debout la République, and also the Mouvement pour la France, and Chasse, Pêche, Nature & Traditions, both of which joined Libertas, a pan-European Eurosceptic party.

Following the 1991 general election, the francophone Union of Moderate Parties became the dominant party in Parliament, and Maxime Carlot Korman became the country's first francophone Prime Minister.

Bildt himself was married to Kerstin Zetterberg 1974 – 1975, Mia Bohman ( daughter of former Moderate party leader and Minister of Economy, Gösta Bohman ) 1984 – 1997 and is currently married to Anna Maria Corazza since 1998.

When the non-socialist formed government in 1976, Bildt came to serve as the Moderate party coordinator in his capacity as close collaborator of the then party leader and Minister of Economy Gösta Bohman.

Before the 2002 election, former Moderate Party MP Sten Andersson defected to SD, citing that the party had gotten rid of its extreme right elements.

Moderate Party members like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping rose to power, and Mao was marginalized within the party, leading him to initiate the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

The Moderate Party, the second largest party, holds 11 mandates.

The Moderate Party (: " the Moderate Coalition Party ", commonly referred to in Swedish as Moderaterna: " the Moderates ") is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden.

While the party set up a new youth league, which came to be called Moderate Youth League or The Young Swedes ( currently the largest youth league in Sweden in terms of membership ), the core of the old one ( in spite of some districts, such as Young Swedes-Gothenburg joining the new one ) set up its own party-the National League of Sweden-which fought elections as an openly pro-Nazi party and temporarily gained parliamentary representation in shape of three rightist MPs.

The non-socialist parties managed to remain in power until 1982 in different constellations, but the election of 1979 again made the Moderate Party become the second party after the Social Democrats, a position it has held since then.

Bildt stayed on as the Moderate party leader, failing to unite themselves with the Greens the non-socialist parties failed to return to government after the election in 1998 as well.

Former head of the Moderate Youth Fredrik Reinfeldt was elected as the new party leader in 2003.

At the same time, the party experienced a drop in seats from being the third largest ( slightly behind the Moderate Party ) to the fourth largest party in the Riksdag, which it has remained since.

* 2002: More than doubles vote share and comes close to a second place in elections ; party leader Lars Leijonborg fails to unite a green-liberal four-party coalition government with passive Moderate support.

Unlike the Moderate Party and the Liberal People's Party, the Christian Democrats and the Centre Party avoided scandals for personal conduct and accusations for espionage against the competing Swedish Social Democratic Party ; so the minister posts were originally, and are still, held by the party leader Göran Hägglund, Mats Odell, and Maria Larsson.

Minister of Communications in the centre-right government of Thorbjörn Fälldin from 1979 to 1981, party leader of Moderate Party from 1981 to 1986 and Governor of Stockholm County from 1992 to 2001.

* " Moderate " Islamic party expected to present new line of thought-Jordan

Moderate constitutional nationalism as represented by the Irish Party was in due course eclipsed by Sinn Féin — a hitherto small party which the British had ( mistakenly ) blamed for the Rising and subsequently taken over as a vehicle for Irish Republicanism.

Reinfeldt later stated that although the effects of that deep ideological division and battle in the party lingered on within the Moderate Youth League, he also felt that it was a defining moment in his life.