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This is a list of ruling political parties by country, in the form of a table with a link to an overview of political parties in each country and showing which party system is dominant in each country. A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around special issues with the aim to participate in ...
The politics of Australia has a mild two-party system, with two dominant political groupings in the Australian political system, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition. Federally, 17 of the 151 members of the lower house (Members of Parliament, or MPs) are not members of major parties, as well as 21 of the 76 members of ...
United Australia Party Country Lang Labor Independent Other parties Total seats 14th 1934 Joe Lyons (1879–1939) The Coalition of the UAP and the Country Party forms a government under Joe Lyons. 18 28: 14: 9 5 LCL: 74 Election Year Prime Minister Summary Labor United Australia Party Country Lang Labor Independent Other parties Total seats ...
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
The Liberal Party of Australia is a party of the centre-right which broadly represents businesses, the middle classes and many rural people. Its permanent coalition partner at national level is the National Party of Australia, formerly known as the Country
No Party Alignment: MHA for Queensborough (1861–1862) Campbell Town (1862–1864) 2 August 1861 20 January 1863 1 year, 171 days 1861 233. QLD: Sir Charles Lilley (1827–1897) No Party Alignment: MP for Fortitude Valley (1860–1874) 25 November 1868 2 May 1870 1 year, 158 days 234. SA: Thomas Reynolds (1818–1875) No Party Alignment: MP ...
The Liberal Party was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party. Historically the most successful political party in Australia’s history, the Liberal Party is now in opposition at a federal level, although it presently holds government in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania at a sub-national level.
When the Liberal Party and its predecessors (the Nationalist Party and the United Australia Party) have been in coalition with the National Party or its predecessor the Country Party, the leader of the junior Coalition party has had the right to nominate their party's members of the Coalition ministry, and to be consulted by the prime minister ...