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Before the election of the first federal leader of the party (the Liberal Democrats having a federal structure in their internal party organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), served as joint interim leaders: David Steel and Bob Maclennan ...
Name In 2024 election Bath: Wera Hobhouse: Seat held Bicester and Woodstock: Calum Miller: Won new seat Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe: David Chadwick: Defeated incumbent, Fay Jones: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross: Jamie Stone: Seat held (Notional gain) Carshalton and Wallington: Bobby Dean: Defeated incumbent, Elliot Colburn: Cheadle: Tom ...
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Jim Wallace became deputy first minister of the new Scottish Executive, a position he held until his resignation as party leader in 2005. Wallace served briefly as acting first minister following the death in office of Donald Dewar in 2000 and the resignation of Henry McLeish in 2001.
List of Liberal Democrat MPs; Name Start End Constituency Ref. Danny Alexander: 2005 2015 Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey: Richard Allan: 1997 2005 Sheffield Hallam: Heidi Allen: 2019 [a] 2019 South Cambridgeshire: David Alton: 1988 [b] 1997 Liverpool Mossley Hill: Gideon Amos: 2024 Taunton and Wellington: Steffan Aquarone: 2024 North ...
Eleven Liberal Democrat members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2019 general election. [1] Four more were subsequently elected at parliamentary by-elections in Chesham and Amersham, North Shropshire, Tiverton and Honiton and Somerton and Frome bringing the total to 15.
The question has loomed over Democrats and their allies since Donald Trump was elected to a second term: Do party leaders and liberal, pro-democracy activists have the juice to launch a passionate ...
As the Democrats under President Johnson began to support civil rights, the formerly Solid South, meaning solidly Democratic, became solidly Republican, except in districts with a large number of African-American voters. Since the 1960s, the Democratic Party has been considered liberal and the Republican Party has been considered conservative ...
Democrats, who will elect their committee leaders next week behind closed doors, are closely watching the high-profile race to be the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat as a litmus test about ...