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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 down, forcing a by-election, which he lost.
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.
Member Constituency Years served Gerry Fitt: Belfast West: 1970–1980 [note 1] [5] John Hume: Foyle: 1983–2005 [6] Seamus Mallon: Newry and Armagh: 1986–2005 [7] Eddie McGrady: South Down: 1987–2010 [8] Joe Hendron: Belfast West: 1992–1997 [9] Mark Durkan: Foyle: 2005–2017 [10] Alasdair McDonnell: Belfast South: 2005–2017 [11 ...
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.
[10] [11] [12] Only a select few members – most notably Lord Aylestone, the former chair of the SDP peers – gravitated towards the Liberal Democrats, while the party's relative Euroscepticism prompted others, such as the Duke of Devonshire and the future MEP Julia Reid, to eventually support the UK Independence Party (UKIP). [13] [14]
There was a huge surge in membership after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, prior to which the SNP had just over 25,000 members. [21] Membership peaked at over 125,000 in August 2018. [22] Membership numbers then fell by tens of thousands in the final years of Nicola Sturgeon's leadership. [23]
The extra detail about the Independent SDP is particularly interesting. Mpntod 12:01, 6 December 2005 (UTC) I think there are good arguments for restoring it to the old breakdown, i.e., the pre-1990 SDP that was a national party, and the post-1990 SDP that is a local grouplet.