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Aaron Harlan

Harlan was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress, reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1859).

Benjamin Stanton

From 1855 to 1861, he served as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses.

Orsamus B. Matteson

Matteson was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until his resignation on February 27, 1857.

Samuel Galloway

Galloway was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857).

Samuel P. Benson

Benson was elected as a Whig to the (Thirty-third Congress) and as an Opposition Party member to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857).


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Adnan Adıvar

He joined the short-lived opposition party "Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası" (Progressive Republican Party), and his name was later associated with an attempt on Atatürk's life in 1926 while he was abroad.

Aishah and The Fan Club

Aishah stood unsuccessfully in the 2013 Malaysian election for the Islamist opposition party, PAS, in the Jempol seat.

Anya Corke

Her photograph was misappropriated by supporters of Barisan Nasional, the ruling political party of Malaysia, to depict the victim in a controversy alleging sexual misconduct by the son of Lim Guan Eng, who is one of the leaders of DAP, a Malaysian opposition party.

Aristide Menezes

Aristide Menezes (1947 – 7 February 1994) was a political figure in Guinea-Bissau who led the Democratic Front, the first opposition party to be legalized.

Athens College

Antonis Samaras (1970), The current Prime Minister of Greece and, since 2009, leader of the New Democracy party, Greece's major conservative party and main opposition party.

Chadian parliamentary election, 2002

President Idriss Déby's party, the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), struck an important electoral alliance with an important opposition party, Lol Mahamat Choua's Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), thus weakening the opposition already divided by the boycott decided by the Party for Liberty and Development (PLD) and the Union for Democracy and Republic (UDR).

Democratic Alliance for the Fatherland

It was formed as an opposition party in September 2005 by former Prime Minister Agbéyomé Kodjo and former National Assembly President Dahuku Péré.

February 2007 in Africa

Police in Zimbabwe ban rallies in parts of Harare that are seen as strongholds of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change.

George R. Robbins

Robbins was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress.

History of Guinea-Bissau

Aristide Menezes led the Democratic Front, which in 1991 became the first legal opposition party and paved the way for democratic elections.

Irakli Okruashvili

In October 2010, Okruashvili resigned his position in the Movement for United Georgia and shortly afterwards joined with the high-profile Georgia-based politicians — Sozar Subari, Levan Gachechiladze, and Erosi Kitsmarishvili to establish a new opposition party, the Georgian Party.

Julian Tan Kok Ping

He is the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Stampin constituency in Sarawak, representing the Democratic Action Party (DAP) after winning the seat for the opposition party for the first time after the Malaysian general election, 2013, wresting the seat from long time MP Datuk Yong Khoon Seng.

Khaleel Chishty

BJP, the main Indian opposition party expressed its dismay at a judge writing to the Prime Minister for securing the release of a Pakistani prisoner in his individual capacity.

Latvia and the euro

Four days later, the biggest opposition party, Harmony Center, stated that it would not support the alternative "referendum bill", which was tabled by the other opposition party, Union of Greens and Farmers.

Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

The governing New Democratic Party (NDP) lost its thin majority in the legislature when one of its Members of the Legislative Aseembly, Jim Walding, moved to an opposition party and voted along with the rest of the opposition against the proposed budget, a matter of confidence and supply.

Line of succession to the Spanish throne

In its 2004 election manifesto, the victorious Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) included plans to adopt absolute primogeniture, a proposal which was supported by the leader of the main opposition party, the conservative People's Party.

Mahmoud Kabil

His father, Dr. Ibrahim Kabil, was head of the internal revenue service in Alexandria and the Western provinces as well as the Minister of Finance in the shadow government of the Saadi opposition party before the 1952 coup!

Malaysian general election, 2004

The third opposition party, the Democratic Action Party, which was routed in the 1999 elections, improved its performance with the re-election of party chairman Lim Kit Siang and his deputy, Karpal Singh.

Mallikarjun Bande

Opposition party led by Jagadish Shettar demanded for Central Bureau of Investigation probe into this matter.Victim's wife along with huge section of public staged protests for CBI probe,however Government of Karnataka ordered for Criminal Investigation Department Karnataka to conduct a detailed probe and report the same to government.

Martin Doherty

Photos of the paramilitary display at Doherty's funeral appeared in Irish newspapers causing John Bruton, the leader of opposition party Fine Gael, to criticise the government during a debate in Dáil Éireann.

Michelle Mungall

In the 39th Parliament, with the New Democrats as the Official Opposition, party leader Carole James assigned Mungall the role of deputy critic to Dawn Black on Advanced Education, where Moira Stilwell was the minister.

Miguel Gustavo Peirano

Professionally, he was linked to ARI economist Rubén Lo Vuolo, and was known to be in cordial terms with the leader of the opposition party ARI at the time, Elisa Carrió.

Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Joseph Msika, the second Vice-president of Zimbabwe, Ms. Clare Short (British Secretary of State for International Development (1997–2003), Professor Arthur Mutambara (Deputy prime Minister of Zimbabwe (2009-present) and Leader of the Opposition Party Movement for Democratic Change and Archbishop Pius Ncube (Former Archbishop of Bulawayo Zimbabwe), a political refugee.

National Assembly for Wales election, 2016

The Welsh Conservatives are currently the largest opposition party with 14 seats, a net gain of two from 2007, but former party leader Nick Bourne lost his seat.

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2010

The biggest opposition party was the Social Democratic Party, led by Hannelore Kraft since 2005.

Northern Elements Progressive Union

It became the main opposition Party in Northern Nigeria after the Region was granted Self Governance in the 1950's, in the First Republic it maintained a steady alliance with Zikist NCNC against the NPC dominated Federal Government.

Patrick Manning

A split in the ruling National Alliance for Reconstruction in 1988 left the PNM as the minority Opposition party, and in 1990 Basdeo Panday requested that he be appointed Leader of the Opposition.

Politics of Japan

The liberal conservative LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009, except for a very short-lived coalition government formed from the likeminded opposition parties in 1993; the largest opposition party was the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the late 1990s and late 2000s.

Purviance

Samuel Anderson Purviance (born 1809), was a Whig, Opposition Party and Republican politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Randy Horton

On February 8, 2013 he was elected unopposed as Speaker of the House of Assembly, becoming the first member of an opposition party to hold that position.

Sajith Premadasa

Sajith Premadasa (born 12 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician, current deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP), the main Opposition party of Sri Lanka and Member of Parliament for Hambantota District and was the former Deputy Minister of Health in Sri Lanka.

Sandro Girgvliani Murder Case

At a subsequent conference on February 22, Member of Parliament (MP) Koba Davitashvili, leader of the Georgian Conservative Party and MP Koka Guntsadze of the Rightist Opposition opposition party, demanded that the authorities immediately investigate the case.

Sergei Yushenkov

Mikhail Trepashkin believed that Yushenkov was murdered because he was a leader of an opposition party that openly challenged the power of the FSB and Russian authorities.

Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra

In 1975, when the principal opposition party leaders were arrested in the first hours of the Emergency, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, Madhu Dandavate and Shyam Nandan Mishra and were detained together on 26 June in Bangalore, where they had gone to take part in a parliamentary commission.

South African general election, 2004

The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, also obtained an increased percentage on the national ballot, most likely from former supporters of the New National Party, possibly losing some support to Patricia de Lille's new Independent Democrats.

Thomas Hardeman, Jr.

After serving in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1853, 1855, and 1857, Hardeman was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the 36th United States Congress as a Representative of Georgia's 3rd congressional district and served a partial term from March 4, 1859, until January 23, 1861, when he resigned to become a captain in the Floyd Rifles.

United Malays National Organisation

BN was also challenged in Sarawak after the 1974 election, which saw the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) led by James Wong become tied with the DAP as the most important opposition party in Parliament, both of them holding nine seats each.

Vancouver Park Board

In June 2009, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver city councilor Raymond Louie, both of whom are members of the Vision Vancouver party, were accused by Vancouver city councilor Suzanne Anton, a member of the opposition party, of attempting to destroy the independence of the park board by centralizing budget oversight.

West Indies Federal Labour Party

By the time of the first elections, the WIFLP was a grouping of the ruling parties in each territory except St. Vincent — although in October 1957, both the ruling party of St. Vincent (the People's Political Party) and the opposition party (St. Vincent Labour Party) had applied for membership, the latter was ultimately approved and the former joined the Democratic Labour Party.