Liberal Democratic Party

By Stelmashenko Alina
Plan:
• 1. The Liberal Democrats
• 2. Broad community support
• 3. Party results
• 4. Consolidation of parties
• 5. Election results
• 6. Reforming the House of Lords
• 7. Party growth
• 8. Differences of opinion
• The Liberal Democrats are Britain's third most popular party. It was
created in 1988 through the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social
Democratic Party (the right-wing split from the Labor Party in 1981).
• In 1981, a split occurred in the Labor Party, as a result of which part of
the right wing formed its own party, called the Social Democratic
Party.
• In its first election, the
alliance of liberals and
social democrats, led by
David Steele and Roy
Jenkins, received
7,780,949 votes (25.4%),
winning 23 seats in the
House of Commons.
• In 1984, the LP-SDP alliance took part in the elections to the European
Parliament, but it did not manage to get a single seat, although the
coalition won 19% of the vote in England, Wales and Scotland.
• On March 2, 1988, the Liberal and Social
Democratic Parties merged into the Party
of Social and Liberal Democrats;
• In its first national elections in 1992, the Liberal Democratic Party
issued a manifesto called "Change Britain for the Better"
• In the 1997 national elections, the Liberal Democratic Party came out
in close cooperation with the Labor Party.
• On the eve of the 1997 parliamentary elections, the Liberal
Democrats presented a manifesto called Let's Do It Differently.
• In 1999, Paddy Ashdown retired. Charles Kennedy becomes the new
chairman of the party.
• In 2006, due to alcohol problems,
Charles Kennedy was forced to resign.
• On September 4, 2012, D. Cameron made a reshuffle in the
government, as a result of which the Libdem got 6 seats out of 32.
• In the elections in June 2017, the party increased its representation in
parliament to 12 seats
• Tim Farron
announced
his
retirement.
The main aspects of party politics
• In their 2010 election manifesto, the Liberal Democrats identified 4
priority aspects of their politics.
Party leaders
• 1988 - David Steele;
• 1988-1999 - Paddy Ashdown;
• 1999-2006 - Charles Peter Kennedy;
• 2006-2007 - Menzies Campbell;
• 2007-2015 - Nick Clegg;
• 2015-2017 - Tim Farron.
• 2017—2019 - Vince Cable
• July-December 2019 - Joe Swinson
• December 2019 - January 2020 - Ed Davie and Sal Brinton
• January 2020 - Ed Davey and Mark Peck
Election results
• 1992 elections - 5,999,384 votes, 22 seats
• 1997 elections - 5,242,947 votes, 46 seats
• Election 2001 - 4,814,321 votes, 52 seats
• 2005 elections - 5,981,874 votes, 62 seats
• Elections 2010 - 6,827,938 votes, 57 seats
• Elections 2015 - 2,415,888 votes, 8 seats
• Elections 2017 - 2,371,772 votes, 12 seats
• Elections 2019 - 3,696,419 votes, 11 seats
Used sources:
• https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Либеральные_демократы_(Великобритания)

• https://w.histrf.ru/articles/article/show/libieralnyie_diemokraty

• https://www.wikiwand.com/ru/