Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is a Christian socialist political party in the United Republics. Founded in 1919 as a left-wing split among northern members of the pre-revolutionary Democratic Party, the party is today the oldest major party in the UASR. Following disappointing initial election results, the DFLP in 1924 opted to align itself with the Republican Party, the two parties mutually agreeing not to run candidates against each other, and to endorse a single presidential ticket. In the years after however, the DFLP and Republicans developed an increasingly fraught relationship, with DFL only narrowly deciding to continue the Alignment in 1928. Following the Great Depression, the DFLP continued to develop in a more leftist direction, with the coalition with Herbert Hoover's Republican government finally breaking in August 1931 in response to extreme budget cuts, and absorbing the Independent Socialist Labor Party later that same year. Ahead of the 1932 elections, the DFLP entered into the Popular Front, a formal alliance with the Workers' Communist Party.