In 2009 its share of the vote reduced slightly, but it remained the dominant party with 65. 9 % of the votes.

He remained with David, and became priest of the party of which he was the leader ( 1 Sam.

From that moment the party suffered an electoral decline, but remained the third force of Italian politics.

Clinton then pointed to his moderate, " New Democrat " record as governor of Arkansas, though some on the more liberal side of the party remained suspicious.

Clinton and most of his allies in the Democratic Leadership Committee strongly supported free trade measures ; there remained, however, strong disagreement within the party.

The party remained the third largest in the House of Commons, but the Conservatives had lost their majority.

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

In local elections Liverpool remained a Liberal stronghold, with the party taking the plurality of seats on the elections to the new Liverpool Metropolitan Borough Council in 1973.

He remained a self-described " non-factional social democrat " until August 1917 when he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks as their positions assembled and he came to believe that Lenin was right on the issue of the party.

Having gained control of China, Chiang's party remained surrounded by " surrendered " warlords who remained relatively autonomous within their own regions.

Khrushchev was able to consolidate his powers within the party machine after Malenkov's resignation, but Malenkov remained the de facto leading figure of the Party.

The new party contested the 1986 election even though competing parties remained illegal under national law until the next year.

Although he left the party in 1956 over the Soviet invasion of Hungary, he nevertheless remained a " historian in the Marxist tradition ," calling for a rebellion against Stalinism as a prerequisite for the restoration of communists ' " confidence in our own revolutionary perspectives ".

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

Those who remained in the Green party were more strongly pacifist and against restrictions on immigration and reproductive rights, while supporting the legalisation of cannabis use, placing a higher priority on working for LGBT rights, and tending to advocate what they described as " anti-authoritarian " concepts of education and child-rearing.

Around this time, Joschka Fischer emerged as the unofficial leader of the party, which he remained until resigning all leadership posts following the 2005 federal election.

The Republican party remained divided against itself, and in the general election Cleveland emerged the victor, with 535, 318 votes to Republican nominee Charles J. Folger's 342, 464.

The Communist party was at this point the largest communist party in western Europe, and remained such for the rest of its existence.

Maududi founded the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1941 and remained its leader until 1972.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

Despite efforts to restore ( or at least improve ) the popularity of the Conservative party, Labour remained far ahead in the opinion polls as the 1997 election loomed, despite the economic boom that had followed the exit from recession four years earlier, and the swift fall in unemployment.

Members of the Pracheachon were subject to constant harassment and to arrests because the party remained outside Sihanouk's political organization, Sangkum.

Majority governments based on a single party are typically even more stable, as long as their majority can be maintained.

The Italian communist party was especially strong in areas like Emilia Romagna, where communists had been elected to stable government positions.

Although Malaysian politics has been relatively stable, critics allege that " the government, ruling party, and administration ... are intertwined with few countervailing forces.

At the 1931 election, Lyons and the UAP offered stable, orthodox financial policies, and portrayed an image of putting national unity above class conflict ( given credibility by Lyons, a working-class man leading a party made of largely of middle-and upper-class conservatives ), while Labor remained split between the official party and the Langites.

The SED celebrated its achievements as the " most successful party on German soil ", praised East Germany as a " politically stable and economically efficient socialist state ", and declared its intention to maintain its present policy course.

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At this stable price, the market is ideal, no one pays too much or earns too little, and there are no tendencies from either party to change that price.

These controversies might have a led to a change of coalition after the 2006 municipal elections: the PS lost some votes, the Christian democrats gained some and the liberals and the green party Ecolo where stable.

The party was able to assume a stable organisational form and founded Red Factions within the unions and an electoral list was constructed called the " Union of Town and Country Proletariat ".

In the 1998 elections the party remained stable.

Its result, however, was a political environment that placed primary emphasis on the maintenance of a stable party leadership and its strict control over the population.

The main reason for the mid-term election was the narrow majority his party enjoyed in Parliament that could not guarantee a stable government needed to handle the economic crisis and its repercussions.

The newly empowered Reichstag was prey to wild party strife, which made the formation of a stable government difficult.

Following the establishment of a more stable situation throughout Germany, the party came around to a more moderate line under the leadership of Heinrich Held.

Despite dismissing the idea of a party as a ' rigid fiction ', the CEDA leaders created a stable party organisation which would lead the Spanish right into the age of mass politics.

* IV system ( 2000s ): rise of a relatively stable and modestly concentrated party system, organized on a left-right dimension, including post-communist parties.

This was a big shift from the electoral lists formed by Radicals since 1989, when they decided to transform their party into the Transnational Radical Party, as it meant that the Radicals understood that they needed a more stable organization if they wanted to preserve their role in Italian politics.

In 2011 local elections the party was almost stable in Ravenna and its province ( 3. 1 and 5. 1 %, respectively ) and in Reggio Calabria and its province ( 3. 1 and 4. 1 %), but gained some ground in Naples ( 1. 5 %).

AP was born as an anti-establishment party in 1993, in parallel with the rise of Lega Nord in Italy, of which it has been long considered the Sanmarinese counterpart, but has since then become a stable political force in San Marino, participating in government coalitions with the centre-right Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party ( PDCS ) as well as with the centre-left Party of Socialists and Democrats ( PSD ) since 2002.

However French politics displays some tendencies characterizing a two-party system in which power alternates between relatively stable coalitions, each being led by a major party: on the left, the Socialist Party, on the right, the UMP and its predecessors.

The January 1975 elections failed to produce a stable party majority, and fresh elections in April 1976 produced the same result.

In the 1913 elections the party stayed stable.