Democratic Party | |
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Leader | Joe Biden |
Deputy Leader | Kamala Harris |
Chairperson | Jaime Harrison |
Senate Majority Leader | Chuck Schumer |
House Minority Leader | Hakeem Jeffries |
Founders | |
Founded | January 8, 1828[1] Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Preceded by | Democratic-Republican Party |
Headquarters | 430 South Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Student wing | |
Youth wing | Young Democrats of America |
Women's wing | National Federation of Democratic Women |
LGBT wing | Stonewall Democrats |
Overseas wing | Democrats Abroad |
Membership (2023) | 45,916,356[2] |
Ideology | |
Political position |
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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 | |
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.
The party sits at the centre to centre-left of the American political spectrum, with the Republican Party being positioned to their right.
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.
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