Democratic Party (United States) most lasting impression came from the cartoons of Thomas Nast from 1870 in "Harper's Weekly". Cartoonists followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats and the elephant to represent the Republicans. In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle. This symbol still appears on Oklahoma, Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia ballots. The rooster was adopted as the official symbol of the national Democratic Party. In New York, the Democratic ballot symbol is a five-pointed star. Although both major political
Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union The Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU; (ЛДПСС), "Liberal'no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Sovetskava Soyuza" ("LDPSS") was a political party in the Soviet Union which preceded the modern-day Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). An effectively multi-party system emerged in Soviet Union in the late 1980s in wake of the Gorbachev reforms. In March 1990, Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution, which ensured the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) a monopoly on power, was repealed. This gave room to the rise of other political parties, specifically the LDPSU. In April 1991, the