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The Era of Good Feelings, when the Federalist party collapsed (leaving the Democratic-Republican party as the sole political faction) was the United States' only experience with a one-party system. The Confederate States of America had no political parties during its entire existence from 1861 to 1865. Despite political differences within the ...
Nonpartisanship, also known as nonpartisanism, is a lack of affiliation with, and a lack of bias towards, a political party. [1]While an Oxford English Dictionary definition of partisan includes adherents of a party, cause, person, etc., [2] in most cases, nonpartisan refers specifically to political party connections rather than being the strict antonym of "partisan".
Bahrain – Political parties are banned; candidates must be independent. Kuwait – Political parties are banned; candidates must be independent. Niue Oman – Political parties are banned; candidates must be independent.
Between 2011 and 2013—the first two years of the 41st Canadian Parliament, following the 2011 Canadian federal election—the elected members of the governing Conservative Party voted as a unified group on 76% of all votes, while members of the Liberal Party did so on 90% of all votes, and members of the New Democratic Party (NDP) did so on ...
Multiparty democracy – an electoral democracy where the people have free and fair elections and can choose between multiple political parties, unlike dictatorships that have usually one party that dominates the other parties or it is the only legally allowed party to rule. New Democracy – Maoist concept based on Mao Zedong's "Bloc of Four ...
This article lists third party and independent candidates, also jointly known as minor candidates, associated with the 2024 United States presidential election. "Third party" is a term commonly used in the United States in reference to political parties other than the Democratic and Republican parties.
Democracy in modern times has almost always faced opposition from the previously existing government, and many times it has faced opposition from social elites. The implementation of a democratic government from a non-democratic state is typically brought by peaceful or violent democratic revolution.
Alberta Non-Partisan League, Alberta, Canada (1916–1919) Non-Partisan Deputies, Norway (1997–2017) Non-Partisan Independent Group, 1930s fraction of the Conservative Party of British Columbia, Canada; The non-partisans, a 1910s Zionist workers movement; Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, Taiwan