Sotirian Democratic Party (Imagua)

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Sotirian Democratic Party of Imagua and the Assimas

Partito Democratico Sotiriano di Imagua e Assime
Founded1890
Dissolved1997
Merged intoSotirian Labour Party
HeadquartersCuanstad, Imagua and the Assimas
Student wingSotirian Democratic Students
Youth wingSotirian Democratic Youth
IdeologyConservatism
Political positionCentre-right
Colors  Blue

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