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The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is a political party in the United Kingdom, established in 1990.The current party traces its origin to the Social Democratic Party, which was formed in 1981 by a group of dissident Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs) and former Cabinet members Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the Gang of Four.
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This is a list of Social Democratic Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Social Democratic Party. Members of the European Parliament are not listed. Bruce Douglas-Mann, Labour Party MP for Mitcham and Morden, is not included as immediately on his change of allegiance he stood ...
This is a list of Social Democratic and Labour Party MPs. ... Member Constituency Years served Gerry Fitt: Belfast West: 1970–1980 [note 1] [5] John Hume: Foyle:
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a centrist to centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [4] The party supported a mixed economy (favouring a system inspired by the German social market economy), electoral reform, European integration and a decentralised state while rejecting the possibility of trade unions being overly influential within industrial relations. [5]
This article lists the election results of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in UK elections, founded following the 1990 dissolution of the "Continuing" Social Democratic Party after the even further dissolution in 1988 of the original Social Democratic Party.
The new Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) party thus gained all of the records and assets of the original SDP. However, three sitting SDP members of parliament — Owen, John Cartwright, and Rosie Barnes — did not join the SLD, opting instead to create a new 'continuing' Social Democratic Party. They were joined by a minority of former ...
Niki Ashton, member of Parliament of Canada, two time Leadership candidate; Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western State of Nigeria (1954–1960) [49] Tony Benn, member of the Labour Party and founder of the Socialist Campaign Group [50] [51] Eduard Bernstein, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany [52] [53]