Centre-left politics
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| April 17 2025 | A new party logo was introduced featuring a white donkey facing right with three blue stars on a blue background. |
| March 19 2025 | Mark Carney succeeds Justin Trudeau as party leader and prime minister. |
| 2025 | YouGov poll revealed Democratic Party voters largely opposed Trump's tariffs, with minimal support for import tariffs on various countries and goods. |
| March 2025 | Pew research revealed that 69% of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, a significant increase from 53% in 2022, reflecting growing skepticism about Israel's actions in the Gaza war. |
| 2025 | Gallup poll shows Democratic Party composition as 9% conservative, 34% moderate, and 55% liberal. |
| February 2025 | Labour Party membership revealed to be 309,000 members. |
| January 2025 | Party membership further declined to 329,957 members. |
| January 6 2025 | Trudeau prorogued parliament and announced his intention to resign as both party leader and Prime Minister following a leadership election. |
| 2024 | Lucy Watson becomes National Director, taking office in 2024. |
| 2024 |
Chunichi Shimbun
Chunichi Shimbun group reported a combined newspaper circulation of 2,274,583, ranking third in Japan behind the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun.
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| 2024 | Labour wins the general election with a landslide majority of 174 seats, securing 33.7% of the popular vote and ending fourteen years of Conservative government. |
| 2024 | Rachel Reeves appointed as Chancellor, becoming the first woman to hold this office in UK history. |
| 2024 | Democrats lose their last Senate seats in red states, signaling a continued shift in political landscape. |
| 2024 | Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Black woman nominated by a major party, but was defeated in the election by Trump, losing both the electoral college and popular vote. |
| 2024 | In the presidential election, LGBT voters strongly supported Kamala Harris with 86% of the vote, while Harris faced challenges among married voters, losing married men and women. |
| 2024 | Three veteran Labour MPs - Kelvin Davis, Rino Tirikatene, and Grant Robertson - resigned from Parliament, allowing Shanan Halbert, Tracey McLellan, and Glen Bennett to re-enter Parliament via the party list. |
| December 23 2024 | President Biden commutes the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without parole. |
| November 2024 | Gallup poll conducted analyzing unionization rates correlating with educational attainment and income levels. |
| November 2024 | Twenty Democrats requested support for US legislation to ban arms trade with countries that hinder humanitarian aid, reflecting growing internal party divisions over Israel policy. |
| November 29 2024 | At the Labour Party's annual conference, Chris Hipkins announced that under a Labour government, New Zealand would not be a part of AUKUS, pledging to 'restore New Zealand's proudly independent foreign policy'. |
| September 2024 | Jagmeet Singh announced the end of the confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberal Party. |
| September 2024 | NDP successfully defended the Elmwood—Transcona seat in a by-election with Leila Dance elected as MP, marking their first by-election victory in five years. They also ended their confidence and supply agreement with the Liberal Party nine months early. |
| July 2024 | Biden became the first incumbent president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to withdraw from running for reelection, and the first since the 19th century to withdraw after serving only one term. |
| July 5 2024 | Keir Starmer becomes Prime Minister, succeeding Rishi Sunak and becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010 and the first to win a general election since Tony Blair in 2005. |
| April 2024 | Additional $61.4 billion in aid to Ukraine was finally added after prolonged congressional delays. |
| April 2024 | Labour called for New Zealand to recognise Palestinian statehood. |
| March 2024 | Party membership reduced to 366,604 members. |
| March 2024 | The NDP passed a motion on Palestine after negotiations with the Liberals, calling for working towards the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of a negotiated two-state solution. |
| February 2024 | Two Labour MPs questioned New Zealand's potential involvement in the non-nuclear component of the AUKUS alliance, with foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford describing it as an 'offensive warfighting alliance against China'. |
| 2023 | Keir Starmer leads Labour to victory in local elections, setting out five key missions for potential government focusing on economic growth, health, clean energy, crime, and education. |
| 2023 | An AP-NORC poll showed a majority of Democrats believed the War in Afghanistan was not worth it. |
| 2023 | During the Israel-Hamas War, the Democratic Party requested a large-scale military aid package to Israel, with President Biden announcing military support and condemning Hamas's actions. |
| 2023 | Gallup poll found 84% of Democrats support same-sex marriage, compared to 71% support by the general public. |
| 2023 | Labour lost its majority to the National Party and returned to Opposition. |
| 2023 | The New Zealand Labour Party maintained institutional links with 11 affiliated trade unions, with unions paying a party levy based on their membership size. |
| December 2023 | Party membership fell to 370,450 members. |
| November 2023 | Chris Hipkins was re-elected as leader of the Labour Party, and Carmel Sepuloni was elected as deputy leader. |
| October 2023 | Biden administration requested $61.4 billion in additional aid for Ukraine for the upcoming year, facing delays from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. |
| October 14 2023 | Labour lost its majority in the New Zealand general election, with its share of the popular vote declining to 26.91% and Parliamentary seats dropping to 34. |
| January 22 2023 | Chris Hipkins was confirmed as the new Labour leader, succeeding Ardern. |
| January 19 2023 | Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation as party leader and prime minister. |
| 2022 | Committed to presenting a National Action Plan on Combating Hate as part of a renewed Anti-Racism Strategy. |
| 2022 | President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which repealed the Defense of Marriage Act. |
| 2022 | Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, though she replaced liberal justice Stephen Breyer and did not change the court's conservative 6-3 split. |
| 2022 | Biden Administration politically and economically opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine, initiating increased military support for Ukraine. |
| 2022 | Democratic President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, expanding background checks and providing incentives for state red flag laws. |
| 2022 | Democrats dramatically outperformed historical trends in the midterm elections, narrowly maintaining their House presence and expanding their Senate majority. |
| 2022 | President Joe Biden enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the largest U.S. legislative allocation of funds for addressing climate change in the nation's history. |
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