Portal:Politics/Selected anniversaries/December


 * December 7, 2003 – the Conservative Party of Canada is formed.
 * December 13, 2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.
 * December 6, 2005 – David Cameron becomes the 26th Leader of the British Conservative Party
 * December 15, 2005 – Parliamentary elections are held in Iraq.
 * December 17, 2005 – Evo Morales wins the presidential elections in Bolivia, ousting incumbent Eduardo Rodriguez and becoming the country's first indigenous leader.
 * December 18, 1834 – Sir Robert Peel publishes the Tamworth Manifesto which lays the foundation for the modern British Conservative Party.
 * December 30, 2006 – Former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein is hanged.