which political party was in power in 2005
United Kingdom general election, 2005 The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the House of Commons. The Labour Party led by Tony Blair won their third consecutive victory, with Blair becoming the first Labour leader since Harold Wilson to form three majority governments. However, their majority now stood at 66 seats compared to the 160-seat majority it had previously held. As of 2018, it remains the last general election victory for the Labour Party.
Democratic-Republican Party The Democratic-Republican Party was an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791â€“93 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party run by Alexander Hamilton, who was secretary of the treasury and chief architect of George Washington's administration.[5] The new party controlled the presidency and Congress, as well as most states, from 1801 to 1825, during the First Party System. It began in 1791 as one faction in Congress, and included many politicians who had been opposed to the new constitution. They called themselves Republicans after their ideology, Republicanism. They distrusted the Federalist commitment to republicanism. The party splintered in 1824 into the Jacksonian movement (which became the Democratic Party in 1828) and the short-lived National Republican Party (later succeeded by the Whig Party).