The Reform Party can refer to a number of current and disbanded political parties of various ideologies.
North America
Canada
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Reform Party of Canada
The Reform Party of Canada (french: Parti réformiste du Canada) was a right-wing populist and conservative federal political party in Canada that existed under that name from 1987 to 2000. Reform was founded as a Western Canada-based protes ...
, a major political party in Canada from 1987 until 2000 when it became the
Canadian Alliance
The Canadian Alliance (french: Alliance canadienne), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (french: Alliance réformiste-conservatrice canadienne), was a centre-right to right-wing federal political party in Canada that existed u ...
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Reform Party of Alberta (1989–2004)
The Reform Party of Alberta is a defunct provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was registered with Elections Alberta. Its leader was David Salmon.
Early history
The party was registered by members of the former Reform Party of C ...
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Reform Party of Alberta (2016–present)
The Reform Party of Alberta is an active political party in Alberta founded in 2016 by Randy Thorsteinson. The party is not related to the former Reform Party of Alberta, which was de-registered by Elections Alberta in 2004, leaving the name ava ...
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Reform Party of Ontario
The Reform Party of Ontario (RPO) (PRO; french: Parti Réformiste de l'Ontario) was a minor political party in Ontario, Canada. Until the 1999 provincial election, the party ran one candidate each election in order to keep the party's name in t ...
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Reform Party of British Columbia
The Reform Party of British Columbia (Reform BC) is an unregistered right-wing populist political party in British Columbia, Canada. Although its name is similar to the defunct Reform Party of Canada, the provincial party was founded before the ...
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Manitoba Reform Party {{Unreferenced, date=November 2008
The Manitoba Reform Party was a right-wing political party in Manitoba, Canada in the early 1990s. It was known as the Manitoba Confederation of Regions Party (CoR) in the provincial elections of 1986, 1988 and 19 ...
(defunct)
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Reform movement (pre-Confederation Canada)
The Reform movement in Upper Canada was a political movement in British North America in the mid-19th century.
It started as a rudimentary grouping of loose coalitions that formed around contentious issues. Support was gained in Parliament throu ...
, Canadian political movement agitating for responsible government
United States
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Toleration Party
The Toleration Party, also known as the Toleration-Republican Party and later the American Party or American Toleration and Reform Party, was a political party that dominated the political life of Connecticut from 1817 to 1827. The ''American'' ...
(American Toleration and Reform Party), founded in Connecticut in the 1810s
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Reform Party (19th-century Wisconsin)
The Reform Party, also called Liberal Reform Party or People's Reform Party, was a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, anti-temperance forces, and Grangers formed in 1873 in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, which sec ...
, a short-lived coalition of the 1870s
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Reform Party of the Hawaiian Kingdom
The Reform Party, also referred to as "the Missionary Party", or the "Down-Town Party", was a political party in the Kingdom of Hawaii. It was founded by descendants of Protestant missionaries that came to Hawaii from New England. Following the Ann ...
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Reform Party of New York State
The Reform Party of New York State was the New York branch of the Reform Party of the United States of America. The branch was founded in 2000 after the Independence Party of New York, which had been affiliated with the national Reform Party from ...
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Reform Party of the United States of America
The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA), generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party, is a centrist political party in the United States, founded in 1995 by Ross Perot.
Perot believed Americans were disillusione ...
, founded in 1995 by Ross Perot
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Reform Party of Minnesota
The Independence Party of Minnesota (often abbreviated IPM, MNIP or IP), formerly the Reform Party of Minnesota, is a political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It was the party of former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura (1999–2003).
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, supporters of the above, now the Independence Party
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American Reform Party, factional offshoot from the Reform Party of the United States, which only endorsed other party candidates
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Reform Party of Syria
The Reform Party of Syria ( ar, حزب الاصلاح السوري ''Ḥizb Al-Iṣlāḥ Al-Sūrīy''), or RPS is a secular Syrian political party and lobby group based in the United States that was active in the mid to late 2000s. Its leader, Far ...
, a United States lobbying organization
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Reform Party (Mormon)
The Reform Party (or Mormon Reform Party) was an American political party formed by Joseph Smith in 1843, before he launched Joseph Smith 1844 presidential campaign, his campaign for President. After the Mormon pioneers, Mormon exodus to Utah, they ...
, founded by Joseph Smith in 1844; went defunct that same year
Europe
Baltic States
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Estonian Reform Party
The Estonian Reform Party ( et, Eesti Reformierakond) is a liberal political party in Estonia. The party has been led by Kaja Kallas since 2018. It is colloquially known as the "Squirrel Party" ( et, Oravapartei).
It was founded in 1994 by Si ...
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Patriotic Party
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(defunct) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, active in the late 18th century
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Reform Party (Latvia)
The Reform Party ( lv, Reformu partija), until April 2012 known as Zatlers' Reform Party ( lv, Zatlera Reformu partija, links=no, ZRP), was a centre-right political party in Latvia founded by former President Valdis Zatlers on 23 July 2011. It wo ...
(2011–2016)
United Kingdom
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Gibraltar Reform Party
The Gibraltar Reform Party was a political party in Gibraltar. It was a left-leaning party which described itself as green and for social justice.
Originally formed as the Independent Liberal Forum on 21 March 2000, the name was subsequently ch ...
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Reform Jersey
Reform Jersey is a social-democratic political party in Jersey, a British Crown Dependency in the Channel Islands.
History Formation
Reform Jersey was founded in 2012 as a pressure group by Montfort Tadier, Nick Le Cornu, Jason Cronin and ...
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English Democrats
The English Democrats is a right-wing to far-right, English nationalist political party active in England. A minor party, it currently has no elected representatives at any level of UK government.
The English Democrats were established in 2 ...
(Reform UK), a small UKIP splinter group active during 2000–2004
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Reform UK
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded with support from Nigel Farage in November 2018 as the Brexit Party, advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit, and was briefly a significant po ...
, the new name for the Brexit Party following the exit of the UK from the European Union
Others
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Reform Party (Northern Cyprus)
The Freedom and Reform Party ( tr, Özgürlük ve Reform Partisi, ÖRP) was a liberal political party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
The party was formed in 2006 by four former MP's from the National Unity Party (UBP) and the Democr ...
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Reform Party (Iceland) The Reform Party can refer to a number of current and disbanded political parties of various ideologies.
North America
Canada
*Reform Party of Canada, a major political party in Canada from 1987 until 2000 when it became the Canadian Alliance
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(2016)
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Party of Reform
Liberal Party ( ro, Partidul Liberal, PL) is a conservative-liberal political party in Moldova. The president of the party is the former Mayor of Chișinău, Dorin Chirtoacă.
History
The party was established under the name Party of Reform ( ...
(Moldova), now called
Liberal Party
The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left.
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Reform Party (Norway)
The Reform Party ( no, Reformpartiet) was a Norwegian political party. It was founded on 12 October 2004 and was a candidate for the 2005 Storting election in six counties: Akershus, Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Rogaland, Vestfold and Østfold. ...
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Reform Party (Norway, 1974)
The Reform Party ( no, Reformpartiet) was a short-lived political party in Norway. The party was founded in August 1974 by "moderate" defectors from Anders Lange's Party. Led by Carl I. Hagen, the party merged back into ALP already in May 1975, ...
(defunct), active in 1974–75
Africa
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Reform Party (Ghana)
The National Reform Party is a political party in Ghana. It was founded in 1999 by a splinter group from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Elections
The party contested the 2000 presidential and parliamentary elections on the 7 December ...
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Reform Party (Rhodesia)
The Reform Party was a political party that was formed in Southern Rhodesia in 1932, which went on to form the government under Godfrey Huggins in 1933, before splitting in 1934 and disappearing by the end of the decade. The party had support from ...
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Reform Party (Kenya)
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Reform Party (South Africa)
The Reform Party ( af, Reformiste Party) was an anti-apartheid political party that existed for just five months in 1975 and is one of the predecessor parties to the Democratic Alliance. The Reform Party was created on 11 February by a group o ...
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Reform and Renaissance Party
The Reform and Renaissance Party ( ar-at, حزب الإصلاح والنهضة, al-Eslah we al-Nahda) is an Islamist political party in Egypt.
History and profile
The party was established on 18 July 2011. Hesham Mustafa Abdel Aziz is the lead ...
(Egypt)
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Egyptian Reform Party
The Egyptian Reform Party ( ar, حزب الإصلاح) is a Salafi political party. The party is made up mostly of young Salafis. A spokesperson for the party, named Essam Abdel Baset, has stated that the party will rely on scholars from Al Az ...
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Reform and Development Misruna Party
The Reform and Development Party ( ar, حزب الأصلاح و التنمية ''Hizb Al-Islah wa Al-Tanmiyah'') is a liberal political party in Egypt.
History and profile
The Reform and Development Party was founded in 2009. The founders of the ...
(Egypt)
Asia and Oceania
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New Zealand Reform Party
The Reform Party, formally the New Zealand Political Reform League, was New Zealand's second major political party, having been founded as a conservative response to the original Liberal Party. It was in government between 1912 and 1928, and lat ...
(defunct)
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Reform Party (Palestine)
The Reform Party (or ''Hizb-al-Islah'') was established by Husayn al-Khalidi in Palestine on 23 June 1935.
At the time of the party's formation, al-Khalidi was mayor of Jerusalem. It did not have a large following outside Jerusalem but its views ...
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Reform Party (Singapore)
The Reform Party (abbreviation: RP) is a political party in Singapore.
The Reform Party is a liberal- democratic party. According to the party's constitution, it seeks to promote "political, social and economic reform; the restoration of full ...
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Shinui
Shinui ( he, שִׁינּוּי, lit. ''Change'') was a Zionist, secular, and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third-largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a ...
, which means reform in Hebrew, an Israeli party.
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Al-Islah (Yemen)
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform, frequently called al-Islah (; ar, التجمع اليمني للإصلاح, at-Tajammu’u al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ), is a Yemeni Islamist party founded in 1990 by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Ali Mohsen ...
, which means reform in Arabic, a Yemeni party
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Reformers' Party, active in Iran during late Qajar and early Pahlavi dynasty
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Reform Party (Northern Mariana Islands)
See also
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Reform and Development Party (disambiguation)
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Reformist Party (disambiguation) Reformist Party may refer to:
*Enlightenment Party, a defunct political party in Korea
*Kaishintō, a defunct political party in Japan
*Kakushintō, a defunct political party in Japan
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