The Social Democratic Party is a small political party in the United Kingdom. It traces its origin to the Social Democratic Party that was formed in 1981 by a group of dissident Labour Party politicians, all Members of Parliament (MPs) or former MPs: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the "Gang of Four". The SDP soon formed an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party.

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  • Social Democratic Party
  • other UK parties of this name
  • the UK Social Democratic Party which has existed since 1990
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  • The Social Democratic Party is a small political party in the United Kingdom. It traces its origin to the Social Democratic Party that was formed in 1981 by a group of dissident Labour Party politicians, all Members of Parliament (MPs) or former MPs: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the "Gang of Four". The SDP soon formed an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party. In 1988, the SDP voted to merge with the Liberal Party to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, later called the Liberal Democrats. Former party leader David Owen, SDP MPs John Cartwright and Rosie Barnes, together with a minority of party members, decided to continue the Social Democratic Party. The Owenite SDP achieved respectable results in the Kensington and Epping Forest by-elections in 1988, and came a very close second to the Conservatives in the Richmond by-election in February 1989, gaining more than 32% of the vote and pushing the Social and Liberal Democrats into a third place. Following a series of setbacks in 1989 and an embarrassing finish behind Screaming Lord Sutch of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in the 1990 Bootle by-election, which local members had pressed Owen to fight against his better judgement, he announced that the party’s National Executive had voted to dissolve the party, saying that the party could not possibly continue after being beaten by the Raving Loonies.
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  • 1990 (xsd:integer)
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  • 38, Church Crescent,
    Muswell Hill,
    London,
    N10 3NE
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  • Jack Holmes (1990 - 1991)
    John Bates (1991 - present)
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  • Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990)
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  • Social Democratic Party (SDP)
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  • The Social Democratic Party is a small political party in the United Kingdom. It traces its origin to the Social Democratic Party that was formed in 1981 by a group of dissident Labour Party politicians, all Members of Parliament (MPs) or former MPs: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the "Gang of Four". The SDP soon formed an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party.
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  • Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990)
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