Sotirian Democratic Party (Imagua)

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Sotirian Democratic Party of Imagua and the Assimas Partito Democratico Sotiriano di Imagua e Assime
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Founded	1890
Dissolved	1997
Merged into	Sotirian Labour Party
Headquarters	Cuanstad, Imagua and the Assimas
Student wing	Sotirian Democratic Students
Youth wing	Sotirian Democratic Youth
Ideology	Conservatism
Political position	Centre-right
Colors	Blue
Political parties Elections

The Sotirian Democratic Party of Imagua and the Assimas (Vespasian: Partito Democratico Sotiriano di Imagua e Assime), or the Sotirian Democratic Party (Vespasian: Partito Democratico Sotiriano) for short, was one of the two major political parties on Imagua and the Assimas, the other being the Democratic Labour Party, operating from 1892 until it merged with the National Labour Party to create the Sotirian Labour Party in 1997.

Originating in 1890 as the Sotirian Country Association by Harmon Lambourne, and renamed to the Sotirian Country Party in 1891 before adopting its final name in 1922, it was the governing party of the Estmerish colony of Imagua from 1892 to 1917, from 1936 to 1952, and from 1956 to 1960, benefitting from the support of the Eucleo-Imaguan population, who exerted extensive political and economic influence in the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, from the 1940s onwards, as Imagua became independent, the Sotirian Democrats began to lose influence to the Democratic Labour Party, as the latter garnered extensive support from the majority Bahio-Imaguan and Coian-Imaguan populations.

From 1960 onward, the Sotirian Democratic Party declined in relevance, particularly as many voters saw it as a white supremacist party, due to the fact most of its members and many of its voters were Estmero-Imaguans. The declined only accelerated when the National Labour Party emerged in 1978 due to a schism within the Democratic Labour Party, which led many Bahio-Imaguans who previously supported the SDP against the DLP to move to the NLP, reducing the party's stature: by 1992, it lost all of its seats, and after gaining zero seats, it was dissolved in 1997, when it finally merged into the newly-established Sotirian Labour Party, with a small minority of members founding the Sotirian Defence Party.

Election results

Election	Leader	Candidates	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	Position
1892	Harmon Lambourne	36/36	20 / 36	new	34,211	54.11%	Majority government
1896		36/36	22 / 36	2	31,414	54.68%	Majority government
1900		36/36	22 / 36		32,462	49.32%	Majority government
1904		37/37	26 / 37	4	43,341	64.46%	Majority government
1908		37/37	24 / 37	2	42,793	60.91%	Majority government
1909	Dick Parlow	37/37	24 / 37		38,062	42.83%	Majority government
1913		38/38	19 / 38	5	48,928	50.32%	Minority government
1917		38/38	9 / 38	10	36,674	29.94%	Official Opposition
1920	Gilbert McGrath	38/38	7 / 38	2	56,783	23.38%	Third Party
1924	Trevor Fullmore	39/39	12 / 39	5	103,303	35.32%	Official Opposition
1936	Lucas Pembroke	39/39	22 / 39	10	110,071	34.63%	Majority government
1940		39/39	29 / 39	7	105,424	31.63%	Majority government
1944	Frederick Maynard	40/40	31 / 40	2	126,435	41.30%	Majority government
1948		64/66	40 / 66	9	227,189	41.44%	Majority government
1952		63/63	28 / 63	12	214,190	41.48%	Official Opposition
1956	Martin Ellingham	63/63	34 / 63	6	309,362	56.30%	Majority government
1960		63/63	25 / 63	9	278,553	41.81%	Official Opposition
1964	Oswald Dunning	65/65	23 / 65	2	267,082	40.64%	Official Opposition
1968	Pericle Cappetta	65/65	29 / 65	6	232,896	35.73%	Official Opposition
1972	Priamo Angelino	67/67	25 / 67	4	205,931	32.56%	Official Opposition
1976	Roland Arnold	67/67	19 / 67	6	154,740	24.51%	Official Opposition
1980		67/67	15 / 67	4	142,922	21.13%	Official Opposition
1981	Victor Banks	67/67	13 / 67	2	131,878	19.95%	Official Opposition
1984		63/64	7 / 64	6	93,042	16.47%	Third party
1988	Edwin Burke	56/64	1 / 64	6	89,067	15.29%	Third party
1992	Erberto Formica	50/67	0 / 67	1	78,136	12.61%	Extra-parliamentary opposition
1996		55/67	0 / 67		90,611	13.37%	Extra-parliamentary opposition