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  2. Political parties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...

  3. List of political parties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of political parties in the United States, both past and present. The list does not include independents. Not all states allow the public to access voter registration data. Therefore, voter registration data should not be taken as the correct value and should be viewed as an underestimate.

  4. Political party - Wikipedia

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    A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or policy goals.

  5. The origins of American political parties: a crash course

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    Trump and Clinton political parties have hundreds of years of history but, you just might be able to teach a political science 101 course after 2 minutes.

  6. List of United States presidential candidates - Wikipedia

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    At various points prior to the American Civil War, the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republican Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party were major parties. [1] These six parties have nominated candidates in the vast majority of presidential elections, though some presidential elections have deviated from the normal pattern ...

  7. Political organisation - Wikipedia

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    Another type of political organization is the party coalition. A party coalition is a group of political parties operating together in parliament. Oftentimes, party coalitions are formed after elections have taken place and no party has clearly won a majority seat in parliament (e.g. the AAP-Congress Government in Delhi).

  8. Two-party system - Wikipedia

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    A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties [a] consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time, one of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority or governing party while the other is the minority or opposition party.

  9. Party divisions of United States Congresses - Wikipedia

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    Political parties had not been anticipated when the U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787, nor did they exist at the time the first Senate elections and House elections occurred in 1788 and 1789. Organized political parties developed in the U.S. in the 1790s, but political factions—from which organized parties evolved—began to appear almost ...