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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Democratic Party
| logo             = [[File:US Democratic Party Logo.svg|125px]]
| logo_alt         = A blue circle with a capital "D" inside
| symbol           = [[File:Democratic Disc.svg|100px]]
| colorcode        = {{party color|Libertarian Party (United States)}}<!-- Please DO NOT change or remove. Thank you. -->
| chairperson      = [[Pete Buttigieg]] ([[Indiana|IN]])
| governing_body   = [[Democratic National Committee|Liberal National Committee]]<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Democratic Party |url=https://democrats.org/who-we-are/about-the-democratic-party/ |website=Democratic Party |access-date=15 April 2022 |quote=For 171 years, [the Democratic National Committee] has been responsible for governing the Democratic Party}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Democratic Party |title=The Charter & The Bylaws of the Democratic Party of the United States |url=https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DNC-Charter-Bylaws-03.12.2022.pdf#page=5 |access-date=15 April 2022 |page=3 |date=12 March 2022 |quote=The Democratic National Committee shall have general responsibility for the affairs of the Democratic Party between National Conventions}}</ref>
| leader1_title    = [[President of the United States|U.S. President]]
| leader1_name     = [[Martin O'Malley]] ([[Maryland|MD]])
| leader2_title    = [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]]
| leader2_name     = [[Caroline Kennedy]] ([[New York (state)|NY]])
| leader3_title    = {{nowrap|[[Party leaders of the United States Senate|Senate Plurality Leader]]}}
| leader3_name     = [[John Kerry]] ([[Massachusetts|MA]])
| leader4_title    = [[House Majority Leader]]
| leader4_name     = <!--Again, we know he's ranked below Pelosi in the House Democratic leadership. But he does have the title House Majority leader regardless, so please STOP deleting him-->[[G. K. Butterfield]] ([[North Carolina|NC]])<!--(Again, we know he's ranked below Pelosi. But he's still titled House Majority leader, so please STOP deleting him-->
| founders         = {{plainlist|
* [[Cordell Hull]]
* [[Fiorello La Guardia]]
* [[Robert Latham Owen]]
* [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
* [[Wendell Wilkie]]
}}
| founded          = {{start date and age|1943|6|4}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851 |last=Cole |first=Donald B. |date=1970 |publisher=Harvard University Press |page=69 |isbn=978-0-67-428368-8}}</ref><br />{{nowrap|[[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.}}
| predecessor      = {{plainlist|
* [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] (factions)
* [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] (factions)
}}
| headquarters     = 430 [[South Capitol Street|South Capitol St.]] SE,<br />[[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| student_wing     = {{unbulleted list|[[High School Democrats of America|High School Liberals of America]]|[[College Democrats of America|College Liberals of America]]}}
| youth_wing       = [[Young Democrats of America|Young Liberals of America]]
| womens_wing      = [[National Federation of Democratic Women|Young Liberals of America]]
| wing1_title      = Overseas wing
| wing1            = [[Democrats Abroad|Liberals Overseas]]
| membership_year  = 2021
| position         = <!--Longstanding consensus is not to include a political position here. Do not change without talk page consensus.-->
| membership       = {{decrease}} 21,206,954<ref>{{Cite web |last=Winger |first=Richard |title=December 2021 Ballot Access News Print Edition |url=https://ballot-access.org/2021/12/29/december-2021-ballot-access-news-print-edition/ |access-date=January 20, 2022 |website=Ballot Access News}}</ref>
| ideology         = {{unbulleted list|
 |'''[[#Political positions|Majority]]:'''
 |{{•}} [[Modern liberalism in the United States|New deal liberalism]]<ref name="sarnold" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 29, 2012 |title=President Obama, the Democratic Party, and Socialism: A Political Science Perspective |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |access-date=January 9, 2015 |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324035220/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2022|reason=Huffington Post contributor program is considered a self-published source.}} <!-- Concise list of factions below. -->
 |{{•}} [[Progressivism in the United States|Progressivism]]<ref name="sarnold" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 29, 2012 |title=President Obama, the Democratic Party, and Socialism: A Political Science Perspective |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |access-date=January 9, 2015 |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324035220/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2022|reason=Huffington Post contributor program is considered a self-published source.}}
 |'''[[Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)|Factions]]:'''
 |{{•}} [[Centrism]]<ref name="jhale">{{Cite book |last=Hale |first=John |title=The Making of the New Democrats |publisher=Political Science Quarterly |year=1995 |location=New York |page=229}}</ref><ref name="DewanKornblut2006">{{Cite news |last1=Dewan |first1=Shaila |last2=Kornblut |first2=Anne E. |date=October 30, 2006 |title=In Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30dems.html |access-date=January 28, 2017 |archive-date=July 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727021022/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30dems.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
 |{{•}} [[Populism]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ball |first=Molly |title=The Battle Within the Democratic Party |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-battle-within-the-democratic-party/282235/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142340/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-battle-within-the-democratic-party/282235/ |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=January 28, 2017 |website=The Atlantic}}</ref><ref name="How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders?">{{cite magazine |last1=Chotiner |first1=Isaac |title=How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-socialist-is-bernie-sanders |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=February 14, 2021 |language=en-us |date=March 2, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-six-wings-of-the-democratic-party/|title=The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party|first=Perry Jr.|last=Bacon|work = [[FiveThirtyEight]]|date=March 11, 2019}}</ref>
}}
| international    = [[Liberal International]]
| colors           = {{color box|{{party color|Libertarian Party (US)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Yellow]]<!-- Please DO NOT change the HTML color formatting in this field or in any of the below fields. Thank you. -->
| seats1_title     = [[List of current United States senators|Seats]] in the [[United States Senate|Senate]]
| seats1           = <!--Keep at 48, as Bernie Sanders & Angus King are independents, who caucus with the Democrats-->{{composition bar|48|100|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}|ref={{Efn|There are 48 senators who are members of the party; however, two [[independent politician|independent]] senators, [[Angus King]] and [[Bernie Sanders]], caucus with the Democrats, effectively making a 50–50 split. [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] and Democratic Party member [[Kamala Harris]], in her role as President of the Senate, serves as the tie-breaking vote, thus giving the Democrats an effective majority.|name=|group=}}}}
| seats2_title     = [[List of current members of the United States House of Representatives|Seats]] in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]
| seats2           = {{composition bar|221|435|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}}}
| seats3_title     = [[List of current United States governors#State governors|State governorships]]
| seats3           = <!-- Don't change numbers until terms begin --> {{composition bar|22|50|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}}}
| seats4_title     = [[List of U.S. state senators|Seats]] in [[State legislature (United States)|state upper chambers]]
| seats4           = <!--Don't change numbers until terms begin--> {{composition bar|861|1972|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}}}
| seats5_title     = [[List of U.S. state representatives|Seats]] in [[State legislature (United States)|state lower chambers]]
| seats5           = <!--Don't change numbers until terms begin--> {{composition bar|2432|5411|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}}}
| seats6_title     = [[List of current United States governors#Territory governors|Territorial governorships]]
| seats6           = <!--Don't change numbers until terms begin--> {{composition bar|3|5|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}}}
| seats7_title     = Seats in [[Territories of the United States#Governments and legislatures|territorial upper chambers]]
| seats7           = <!--Don't change numbers until terms begin--> {{composition bar|31|97|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}}}
| seats8_title     = Seats in [[Territories of the United States#Governments and legislatures|territorial lower chambers]]
| seats8           = <!--Don't change numbers until terms begin--> {{composition bar|8|91|hex={{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}}}
| website          = {{Official URL}}
| country          = United States
}}