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A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. Parties often espouse a certain ideology, but may also represent a coalition among disparate interests.
In parliamentary systems of government, most political parties have an elected leader who, if his or her party is elected by absolute majority, or with a relative majority within the coalition where tradition is thus, becomes head of government. In presidential systems, the President may be elected as a representative of his party; however, in many nations he is forced to relinquish his connections with his party upon the assumption of office as head of state. In certain electoral situations a coalition government may be formed from members of more than one party. This is more common after elections using proportional representation rather than a "first past the post" system.
Partisanship is the tendency of supporters of political parties to subscribe to or at least support their party's views and policies in contrast to those of other parties. Differentiation is essential to most political parties: they must be different at least in some ways to other parties to compete in politics and win elections. Extreme partisanship is sometimes referred to as partisan warfare.
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1832 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Tories, Whigs and Irish Repeal groups. Includes brief description of terms.
1835 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives and Whigs. Includes brief description of terms.
1837 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives and Whigs. Includes brief description of terms.
1841 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Whigs, Chartists and Irish Repeal Party. Includes brief description of terms.
1847 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Whigs, Chartists and Irish Repeal Party. Includes brief description of terms.
1852 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Whigs and Chartists. Includes brief description of terms.
1857 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Whigs and Chartists. Includes brief description of terms.
1859 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Whigs and Chartists. Includes brief description of terms.
1865 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives and Whigs. Includes brief description of terms.
1868 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives and Liberals. Includes brief description of terms.
1874 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals and Home Rule Party. Includes brief description of terms.
1880 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals and Home Rule Party. Includes brief description of terms.
1885 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1886 General Election - Features total votes and percentage received by the Conservative Party, Liberal Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1892 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists, Liberals and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1900 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists, Liberals, Labour Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1906 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists, Liberals, Labour Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1910 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists, Liberals, Labour Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1918 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, Sinn Fein, and Conservative, Labour, Independent and NDP Coalitions. Includes brief description of terms.
1923 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Labour and Communist Parties, and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1924 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, Sinn Fein, Communist Party and Constitutionalist. Includes brief description of terms.
1929 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, Communist Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
1931 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, National Liberals, Communist Party, Irish Nationalists, National Party, National Labour and Independent Liberal. Includes brief description of terms.
1935 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Labour, National and Communist Parties, National Liberals, Irish Nationalists, National Labour and Independent Labour Party. Includes brief description of terms.
1945 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Communist and Labour Parties, National Liberals, Irish Nationalists, National and Independent Labour Parties. Includes brief description of terms.
1950 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Communist, National Liberal, Labour, National and Independent Labour Parties, and Sinn Fein. Includes brief description of terms.
1951 General Election - Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Communist, National Liberal, Labour, National and Irish Labour Parties, and Sinn Fein. Includes brief description of terms.
British Union of Fascists - Formed in 1932. Includes brief history, photo and commentaries.
Chartist Party - Formed in 1839. Includes brief history, total votes and percentages in elections covering the years from 1841-1859.
Conservative Party - Includes brief history, total votes and percentages in general elections covering the years from 1835-1987.
Fabian Society - Socialist debating group formed in 1884. Includes brief history and commentaries.
House of Commons - Lower House of Parliament. Includes brief history and commentaries.
House of Lords - Upper House of Parliament. Includes brief history and commentaries.
Independent Labour Party - Features brief history and commentaries.
Lib-Lab MPs - Includes brief history of the term.
Liberal Party - Includes brief history, total votes and percentages in general elections covering the years from 1868-1987.
Sinn Fein - Irish Republican group formed in 1902. Includes brief history.
Social Democratic Federation - First Marxist political group in Britain. Includes brief history and commentaries.
The Labour Party - Features brief history, total votes and percentages in general elections covering the years from 1900-1987. Includes posters and short commentaries.
Tories - Originally referred to rural bandits in Ireland. Includes brief description of the term.
Whig - Explains how this term arose in the seventeenth century and evolved into the name of a political party supporting social reform.
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