Conservative
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Republican Party (US)
The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from Northern opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the spread of slavery, nominating Abr...
Federalist Party
The Federalists coalesced around Alexander Hamilton and the ratification of the Constitution, favoring a strong central government...
Whig Party (US)
The Whigs united National Republicans, anti-Masonic men, and state rights dissenters under a name borrowed from British constituti...
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservatives descend from the Tory party of the late seventeenth century, defenders of crown and church who learned to surviv...
Christian Democratic Union
The CDU was founded in 1945 to unite Protestants and Catholics in a democratic Christian democratic party, drawing lessons from We...
The Republicans (France)
The UMP was created in 2002 to unite the Gaullist RPR and its allies behind Jacques Chirac, winning the presidency and dominating ...
Forza Italia
Forza Italia, Go Italy, a football chant, was founded by media magnate Silvio Berlusconi months before his 1994 election victory, ...
People's Party (Spain)
The PP refounded the Alianza Popular in 1989 as a broad center right party and under Jose Maria Aznar won 1996, delivering economi...
Law and Justice
PiS formed in 2001 around Lech and Jarosaw Kaczynski after the collapse of the Solidarity Electoral Action, fusing social conserva...
New Democracy (Greece)
New Democracy was founded by Karamanlis in 1974 to lead the restored democracy after the colonels collapse, uniting conservatives ...
Moderate Party (Sweden)
The Moderates began as the conservative electoral league of 1904, becoming the Moderate Party in 1969 and shifting to market liber...
Fine Gael
Fine Gael descends from Cumann na nGaedheal, the pro Treaty party that governed the new Free State under W T Cosgrave, merged in 1...
National Action Party (Mexico)
PAN was founded in 1939 by Catholic business and professional circles opposed to revolutionary anticlericalism, contesting electio...
Colorado Party (Paraguay)
The ANR Colorado Party was founded in 1887 by supporters of General Bernardino Caballero against liberal rivals, dominating Paragu...
National Party (Uruguay)
The Blancos descend from the 1836 risings of Manuel Oribe against Colorado president Rivera, defining nineteenth century civil war...
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The LDP formed in 1955 from the merger of conservative rivals, establishing the 1955 System: permanent conservative rule facing a ...
National Party of Australia
The Country Party formed in 1920 from farmer and grazier organizations, winning the 1923 Bruce coalition that institutionalized th...
Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservative Party was created in 2003 by the merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance, itself heir o...