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4 unusual facts about The Democrats


Democratic Union for Consumers

Bordon has been a strong supporter of the idea of a "Democratic Party" since 1992, when he left the Democratic Party of the Left to form Democratic Alliance, forerunner of the first Democratic Union, The Democrats and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, respectively.

Olivists

In opposition to this, Prodi supporters, grassroots activists, disgruntled Populars and other groups (including Movement for Democracy – The Net and Italy of Values) organized a new "Ulivist" party, The Democrats.

The group, whose long-standing leader of the group has been Arturo Parisi, is the bulk of the former party of Prodi, The Democrats and of the former internal opposition within Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy.

Together for Veneto

It was formed for the 2000 regional election by the local sections of three national parties: the Italian People's Party, The Democrats and Italian Renewal.


Tuscan regional election, 2000

The Olive Tree, an alliance comprising several centre-left parties including the Italian People's Party, the Democrats of the Left, The Democrats, the Federation of the Greens and Party of Italian Communists, had a reconfirmation but lost votes.

Venetian regional election, 2000

Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, House of Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time President of the Region by a landslide over the centre-left candidate Massimo Cacciari (The Democrats).


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87 BC

Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.

Arthur Chesterfield-Evans

He was re-elected for an 8-year term in 1999 and was defeated at the 2007 election, achieving 1.8% of the primary vote, leaving the Democrats unrepresented in the NSW Parliament.

Barbara Osborn Kreamer

Elected by the Democrats of the First Congressional District of Maryland, she was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1988 that nominated Michael Dukakis.

Bill Lippert

Following the 2004 election, the Democrats regained their majority and Lippert was appointed to chair the Judiciary Committee by House Speaker Gaye Symington.

Charles C. Diggs, Sr.

A follower of Marcus Garvey during the 1920s, Diggs first became involved in politics as a Republican, and then changed affiliation to the Democrats in 1932.

Charles P. White

Earlier, WISH-TV political reporter Jim Shella wrote in his blog that the Democrats' challenge to White's ballot status could have implications beyond the Secretary of State race.

Democratic Party of Slovenia

The Democrats retained three ministers in the government, Igor Bavčar (Interior), Dimitrij Rupel (Exterior) and Jelko Kacin (Information).

Democrats in Norway

In the 2005 parliamentary election, the Democrats were endorsed by former boxer Ole Klemetsen and former pop singer Gry Jannicke Jarlum, who both stood as low-key candidates.

Dixon-Yates contract

However, in the 1954 Congressional elections, the Democrats, who had made an issue of Dixon-Yates, won control of the House and Senate and in 1955 they gained chairmanship and majority control of the JCAE.

Edward Suslovic

In the 2004 general election Suslovic was defeated for re-election by Green Independent and fellow incumbent John Eder following a controversial redistricting process which involved a lawsuit by the Green Independent Party claiming the Democrats sought to gerrymander Eder out of office.

George G. Sill

After voting Republican from the first vote he could cast, Sill changed parties to the Democrats in 1872, under the leadership of Horace Greeley.

John M. Parker

The Democrats Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall were nevertheless reelected to the presidency and vice presidency.

Kathleen Seefeldt

In Prince William County, once the Democrats' bastion in Northern Virginia, the County Sheriff, Commonwealth's Attorney, and two members of the Board of Supervisors were the only Democrats left in County Government.

Laenas

When consul in 132 BC he incurred the hatred of the democrats by his harsh measures as head of a special commission appointed to take measures against the accomplices of Tiberius Gracchus.

Martin P. Paone

In 1995 he became Secretary for the Minority by the Democratic Caucus, was elected Secretary for the Majority when the Democrats went into the Majority in June 2001 and again in 2007 at the start of the 110th Congress.

Michèle Flournoy

According to The New York Observer, in an article published 14 August 2007 ("Hot Policy Wonks for the Democrats"), Flournoy was then a 46-year-old former Department of Defense official in the Clinton administration.

Miguel Estrada

A bipartisan group of former Solicitors General wrote a letter objecting to the Democrats' demand for memos that Estrada had written while he was with the office.

Oregon gubernatorial special election, 1948

Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.

Party switching

Australia has seen high-profile defections since 1995, including the 1997 move by Cheryl Kernot (then leader of the Australian Democrats) to the Labor Party, the declared independence of former Labor senator Mal Colston (1996) and the disintegration of the Democrats.

Per Berthelsen

When Nuuk Municipality elected a new mayor in 2007, following the death of Agnethe Davidsen, Berthelsen was the Democrats' candidate, but lost out to Nikolaj Heinrich by just three votes.

Politics of Colorado

In 2004, while Bush won the state's electors, Democrat, Ken Salazar won a U.S. Senate seat and his brother John Salazar won a seat in the U.S. House, while the Democrats captured both chambers of the state legislature.

Post-presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

The Democrats nominated Samuel J. Tilden of New York, and the election that year was undecided for several months, due to voting irregularities in three Southern states.

Priscilla Owen

First, the Democrats were angry that two previous nominees that President Clinton had nominated to Garwood's empty seat, Jorge Rangel and Enrique Moreno, were never given hearings by the U.S. Senate during Clinton's second term because the Senate was at the time controlled by Republicans.

Ralph Perk

When Metzenbaum lost the primary to Glenn (The two were later Senate colleagues for many years.), Perk expressed doubt that he could win the election, particularly in the Democrats year of Watergate.

Stephen Minarik

Minarik refused, calling this "just the latest Dean Scream, and stating that the Democrats would be wise to take action on members like Lynne Stewart, rather than attacking me.

Steve Sviggum

He began his speakership under unusual circumstances, as 1998 also saw the election of Reform Party candidate Jesse Ventura as governor while the Democrats retained control of the Minnesota Senate.

Terry Baker

Baker was a three-year letter winner in basketball, and led the Democrats to the Portland Interscholastic League city championship his senior year.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1982

The Democrats nominated one-term State Attorney General Mark White of Houston to face the outspoken and controversial Republican incumbent from Dallas for the general election.

Thomas Suozzi

His coattails were credited with helping the Democrats keep the Nassau County Legislature (by one vote) as well as helping Democrat Kathleen Rice dislodge long-term Repuiblican Denis Dillon as Nassau County's District Attorney by about 8,000 votes.

United States elections, 2008

Of the 435 voting members of the House, the Democrats gained 21 seats, increasing their majority to 257, their largest since winning in 1992.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1884

William H. Perry was nominated by the Democrats and was unopposed in his bid for election to the 49th Congress.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1982

Three incumbents were re-elected, but John Light Napier of the 6th congressional district was defeated in his bid for re-election and the open seat in the 5th congressional district was retained by the Democrats.

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1964

During the Concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third district House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction.

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1948

Dewey did manage to win back sparsely populated Essex County, in the northeast of the state, which had defected to the Democrats and voted for Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944.

Westchester County Board of Legislators

Although the Democrats hold a numerical majority, two of the members of the Democratic conference caucus with the Republicans on the Board to form a majority, similar to the Independent Democratic Conference of the New York State Senate.

William H. Milliken, Jr.

Nationally, with the Cuban missile crisis unfolding late in October and the nation rallying behind their chief executive, the Democrats actually gained three seats in the Senate and lost only five in the House, with the GOP gaining one seat.