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 opted to align itself with the Republican Party in 1924. The two parties mutually agreed 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 deciding to continue the Alignment in 1928 after being directly persuaded by their presidential candiate, Herbert Hoover. Following the Great Depression, the DFLP developed into a more anti-capitalist party, and the coalition with Hoover's Republican government finally broke in August 1931 in response to extreme budget cuts. Later that same year, they absorbed the Independent Socialist Labor Party, further defining the party's socialist identity. Ahead of the 1932 elections, the DFLP entered into the Popular Front, a formal alliance with the Workers' Communist Party.