Question: For how long has the Budersrat been dominated by the Christian Democratic Party?
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  : a "Republican party stronghold" in recent decades.
has been dominated by Republicans for most of its existence.
has been dominated by Republicans for most of its existence.
has been dominated by Republicans for most of its existence.
: Solid South; dominated by Republicans since the mid-1990s.
has been dominated by Republicans for most of its existence.
: Solid South; dominated by Republicans since the mid-1990s.
has been dominated by Republicans for most of its existence.
has been dominated by Republicans for most of its existence, save a few Democratic governors.  
  has been dominated by Democrats but they are more conservative than the national party is in general, the last Democratic presidential nominee to win Arkansas's electoral votes was native son Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 respectively.
has been continuously ruled by Democrats since the Home Rule Act of 1973 was passed.
has been historically dominated by the Cook County Democratic Party - the office of mayor has been filled by a Democrat continuously since 1931.
Milwaukee has been dominated by Democrats since the 1960s.
Beforehand, it was dominated by the "Sewer Socialism" movement.
has been dominated by Democrats since the Democratic Revolution of 1954.
Beforehand, the state was dominated by Republicans and a sugar oligarchy.
has been dominated by Democrats for several decades, save a few Republican governors.
has been dominated by Democrats since the Civil War, with some exceptions.
has been dominated by Democrats in recent decades, but they are more conservative than the national party is in general; West Virginia is considered to be solidly Republican for the purposes of presidential elections.
State politics are fueled in part by significant coal reserves that have led to an increased presence of organized labor, compared to the national average.  
The VVD has always been a very independent party.
The VVD cooperates on the European and the international level with the social-liberal Democraten 66.
It has a long history of coalitions with the Christian Democratic Appeal and its Christian-democratic predecessors, but was in government with the social-democratic Labour Party from 1994 to 2002.
The VVD participates in the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, a democracy assistance organisation of seven Dutch political parties. 
Being both a regional and provincial capital, Turku is an important administrative centre, hosting the seat of the Archbishop of Finland and a Court of Appeal.
Aleksi Randell has been the mayor of Turku since 2010.
The city council and city board have long been dominated by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Coalition Party ("Kokoomus/Samlingspartiet"), with approximately equal representation.
Currently, the council has 67 members, with 19 from "Kokoomus" and 14 from SDP.
The other major parties in the council are the Green League (10 seats), the Left Alliance (9 seats) and The Finns (6 seats).
The current chair of the city board is Minna Arve from "Kokoomus".
Results of the Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 in Turku: National Coalition Party 23.7% Social Democratic Party 19.4% True Finns 15.8% Left Alliance 12.7% Green League 11.4% Swedish People's Party 5.8% Centre Party 4.7% Christian Democrats 3.1%  
The Politics of Lower Saxony takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Lower Saxony.
Since 1948 politics in the state has been dominated by the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democratic Party.
Lower Saxony was one of the origins of the German environmentalist movement in reaction to the state government's support for underground nuclear waste disposal.
This led to the formation of the German Green Party in 1980.