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The leader of the party with the second most members in Congress is called the Senate Minority leader for the Senate and House Minority Leader in the House of Representatives. There may be third party members with just a few members and they might have a leader but that leader is not referred to as the Minority Leader of that House of Congress.
At the present time (October 4, 2011) the leaders of the main three political parties in the province of Ontario are: Liberal Party, Dalton McGuinty Conservative Party, Tim Hudak New Democratic Party, Andrea Horvath
The House majority whip is basically the third highest ranking position in the house, behind the speaker and the majority leader. The house majority whip is a member of the majority party and is responsible for trying to unite his party and get party members to vote with the party.
A party does not "represent" Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Rather, a party is Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition by virtue of being the political party with the most seats in opposition. It is theoretically possible (but unlikely) for the third place party to form the opposition if the two larger parties should form a coalition government.Currently, the New Democratic Party is the Official Opposition in Canada's House of Commons.
There are websites that can compare banks and lenders to help you determine if Third Federal Savings & Loan is a leader in house mortgages. But what you need may not be just a leader in house mortgages, but the product they have that fits you.
Yes, Senators Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders are third party members. There are no third party U.S. Representatives though.
The United Kingdom is divided into 650 parliamentary constituencies each of which elects a member to the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the British Parliament. Normally one of the major parties is able to secure a majority of seats in the house and the leader of that party is then invited to form a government by the monarch with him or her self as the Prime Minister. This means that the prime minister is not directly elected - there is no space on the ballot for anyone to vote for any individual to be the Prime Minister. In the 2010 election, the Conservative Party won a majority over their nearest rival, The Labour Party, but did not have an overall majority. They entered into a coalition agreement with the third party, The Liberal Democrats, and the Conservative leader David Cameron was invited to serve with the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister.
Founded in 1961, there have been times when Canada's New Democratic Party has been very influential in Parliament. Although it is usually the party with the third or fourth most number of seats, in 2011, the NDP had an exceptional election-- in fact, it ended up with the second most number of seats in Parliament (103). But that all changed in the 2015 elections, when the NDP lost 59 seats, causing it to fall back to third place, with only 44 seats total.
The leader of the House of Representatives is called the Speaker of the House. The Speaker is elected by other members of the House and thus typically belongs to the party holding the most seats.As of January 2011, the Speaker of the House is Republican John Boehner of Ohio.
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi political party and Third Reich. Actually became leader by popular vote
Elizabeth May is currently the federal leader. Each province and territory would have their own leader of the provincial wing.
Senate Majority Leader. He is technically outranked by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, who is traditionally the most senior member of the majority party in the Senate (and is third in the line of succession after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House). However, the Senate Majority Leader wields much more actual power.