(Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Canadian New Democratic Party.

(Canadian politics) Of or pertaining to the Canadian New Democratic Party or supporters thereof.

(US politics, archaic) a member of the Democratic Party of the United States of America who supported the prosecution of the American Civil War

Of or pertaining to social democracy.

plural of New Democrat

plural of social democrat

(politics) A situation when ostensibly democratic organizations or institutions (particularly governments) are seen to be falling short of fulfilling the principles of the parliamentary democracy in their practices or operation where representative and linked parliamentary integrity becomes widely discussed.

An advocate or supporter of democratic socialism or its ideologies.

(US, historical) A moderate and conservative Democrat, in the south and midwest, many of whom had previously supported conservative Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace for President of the USA, who supported the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.

A set of principles of internal organization, mainly associated with Leninism, in which political decisions reached by voting are binding upon all members of the party.