Democratic Party (United States)

Democratic Party
Leader	Joe Biden
Chairperson	Jaime Harrison
U.S. President	Joe Biden
U.S. Vice President	Kamala Harris
Senate Majority Leader	Chuck Schumer
House Minority Leader	Hakeem Jeffries
Founders	Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren
Founded	January 8, 1828; 196 years ago (1828-01-08)[1] Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Preceded by	Democratic-Republican Party
Headquarters	430 South Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Student wing	High School Democrats of America College Democrats of America
Youth wing	Young Democrats of America
Women's wing	National Federation of Democratic Women
Overseas wing	Democrats Abroad
Membership (2023)	45,916,356[2]
Ideology	Majority: Social liberalism (American)[3][4] Factions: Centrism[5][6][7][8] Progressivism (American)[9][10][11][12][13][14] Social democracy[15]
Political position	Centre-left to Left-wing Factions Far-left
Colors	Blue
Seats in the Senate	48 / 100[a]
Seats in the House of Representatives	213 / 435
State governorships	23 / 50[b]
Seats in state upper chambers	857 / 1,973
Seats in state lower chambers	2,425 / 5,413
Territorial governorships	4 / 5
Seats in territorial upper chambers	31 / 97
Seats in territorial lower chambers	9 / 91
Election symbol
Website
democrats.org
Politics of the United States Political parties

The United States Democratic Party is one of the two biggest political parties in the United States. Since the mid-1850's, the party's main opponent has been the Republican Party. Both political parties have controlled American politics ever since.

Every four years the party holds a National Convention where they agree on their candidate for president. The Democratic National Committee coordinates most of the activities of the Democratic Party in all 50 United States. Since Andrew Jackson's inauguration in 1829, there have been 16 Democratic presidents (17 if including John Tyler, who, though originally elected to the vice presidency as a Whig, was expelled from his party shortly after taking office, became an independent, and allied with Democrats), the most recent and current is Joe Biden who took office as the 46th president of the United States in January 2021.

The Democratic Party represents a broad spectrum of liberal and left-wing ideologies,including—but not limited to—classical liberalism, social democracy, progressivism, and social (modern) liberalism.

1. ↑ Cole, Donald B. (1970). Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800–1851. Harvard University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-67-428368-8.
2. ↑ Winger, Richard (December 29, 2023). "December 2023 Ballot Access News Print Edition". Ballot Access News. Archived from the original on December 28, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
3. ↑ Cite error: The named reference sarnold was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
4. ↑ "President Obama, the Democratic Party, and Socialism: A Political Science Perspective". The Huffington Post. June 29, 2012. Archived from the original on March 24, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
5. ↑ Hale, John (1995). The Making of the New Democrats. New York: Political Science Quarterly. p. 229.
6. ↑ Dewan, Shaila; Kornblut, Anne E. (October 30, 2006). "In Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 27, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
7. ↑ Irwin, Lauren (October 13, 2023). "Democratic centrists offer to back McHenry as temporary House leader".
8. ↑ "Centrist Democrats target Lauren Boebert and Derrick Van Orden in 2024".
9. ↑ Stein, Letita; Cornwell, Susan; Tanfani, Joseph (August 23, 2018). "Inside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party". Reuters. Archived from the original on June 13, 2022. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
10. ↑ Trudo, Hanna (August 26, 2023). "Progressives see promise in more diverse candidates, voters ahead of 2024".
11. ↑ "Progressives focus on local-level wins to reshape Democratic Party from the bottom up". PBS NewsHour. April 17, 2023.
12. ↑ Trudo, Hanna (November 13, 2022). "Progressives' ranks — and plans — expand after midterms".
13. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/09/democrats-progressive-candidates-races-wins-midterms-congress
14. ↑ Hanna Trudo, Mychael Schnell (November 14, 2022). "Progressives eye new Congress emboldened by midterm wins".
15. ↑
    • Ball, Molly. "The Battle Within the Democratic Party". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
    • Chotiner, Isaac (March 2, 2020). "How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders?". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on January 12, 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
    • Bacon, Perry Jr. (March 11, 2019). "The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on August 15, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.