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The Democratic Party traces its roots to the Democratic-Republican faction of Thomas Jefferson and took its modern name under Andr...

Ross Perot ran in 1992 on deficit reduction and opposition to NAFTA, taking 18.9 percent, the best non-major result since 1912. Th...

Denied the 1912 Republican nomination by William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt bolted and formed the Progressive Party, which me...

The Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe Grillo and strategist Gianroberto Casaleggio grew from mass meetups and blog politics int...

Fianna Fail, Soldiers of Destiny, split from Sinn Fein in 1926 over the oath of allegiance, and under Eamon de Valera governed fro...

The PRI formed in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party, consolidating the post revolutionary state into corporatist machine po...

MORENA, the National Regeneration Movement, was registered by Lopez Obrador after his 2012 defeat, converting his personal movemen...

Justicialismo grew from the 1945 labor mobilization and Peron presidency, formalized as a party in 1947 and banned after his 1955 ...

Congress was founded in 1885 by colonial era Indian professionals under A O Hume, becoming under Gandhi and Nehru the mass movemen...

The AAP grew from the 2011 Anna Hazare anti corruption fasts, founded by Arvind Kejriwal and comrades in 2012 with the common man ...

The DPJ unified opposition forces in 1998, growing through LDP fatigue to a 2007 upper house win and the landmark 2009 landslide t...

PTI, the Movement for Justice, was founded by cricketer Imran Khan in 1996, campaigning for welfare, anti corruption, and a new Pa...

The ANC was founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, petitioning against land dispossession, evolving under ...

FRELIMO united exile nationalist movements in 1962 under Eduardo Mondlane, fighting the Portuguese to the 1974 coup in Lisbon that...

SWAPO, the South West Africa People Organization, organized contract worker and exile politics from 1960 under Sam Nujoma, launchi...