The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States. The Party is currently (as of 2005) the minority party in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and among United States Governors. The party also trails in state legislatures as the GOP controls 21 legislatures and Democrats control 19. 10 states are divided legislatures. Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world. In the U.S. it is often referred to as the more "progressive" party.