Republican Party is a name used by many

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around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican Party. Republican Party may also refer to:

Africa

Republican Party (Liberia) The Republican Party, early named Liberian Party, was a political party founded soon after the founding of Liberia in 1848. It was known to be made up primarily of Americo-Liberians who had mixed African and European ancestry. Its main opponent w ...

Republican Party (Malawi) The Republican Party is a political party in Malawi. It was founded by Stanley Masauli and Gwanda Chakuamba in 2004.Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund By Sarah Tenney, Norman K. Humphreys p77 At the general election of 20 ...

Republican Party (Namibia) The Republican Party () is a political party in Namibia. It is based among the white minority. Henk Mudge was its President and its sole representative in the National Assembly. Prior to the 2004 parliamentary election, the Republican Party wa ...

Republican Party (Tunisia) The Republican Party ( ar, الحزب الجمهوري ', french: Parti républicain) is a centrist liberal party in Tunisia. It was formed on 9 April 2012 as a merger of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), Afek Tounes and the Tunisian Republ ...

Americas

Brazil

Republicanos Republicans (), formerly known as Brazilian Republican Party ( pt, Partido Republicano Brasileiro) and formed as Renovator Municipalist Party ( pt, Partido Municipalista Renovador) is a Brazilian political party. Its electoral number is 10 and ...

Party of the Republic The Liberal Party ( pt, Partido Liberal, PL) is a conservative and national liberal political party in Brazil. From its foundation in 2006 until 2019, it was called the Party of the Republic ( pt, Partido da República, PR). The party was found ...

, in Brazil * Republican Party (Brazil), active 1945–1965 *

Republican Party of São Paulo The Paulista Republican Party ( pt, Partido Republicano Paulista, PRP), sometimes translated as the Republican Party of São Paulo, was a Brazilian political party founded on April 18, 1873 during the and sparked the first modern republican movem ...

, active in Brazil 1873–1937 *

Republican Party of the Social Order The Republican Party of the Social Order (Portuguese: ''Partido Republicano da Ordem Social'', ''PROS'') is a political party in Brazil, founded in 2010, and officially recognized in 2013.Republican Party (Chile, 2019) The Republican Party ( es, Partido Republicano; PLR) is a right-wing populist and conservative political party in Chile. Its founder and current leader is Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast. The Republican Party is one of two part ...

Republican Party (Chile, 1982) The Republican Party or Republican Right ( es, Partido Republicano/Derecha Republicana) —also known as Republican Democratic Right ( es, Derecha Democrática Republicana)— was a Chilean centre-right political party existing from 1982 to 1987 d ...

, active in Chile 1982-1987

United States

Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska A ...

, the current major party; active since 1854 *

American Republican Party (1843) The American Republican Party was a minor anti-Catholic, anti-immigration, and nativist political organization that was launched in New York in June 1843, largely as a protest against immigrant voters and officeholders. In 1844, the American R ...

, active circa 1840s *

Democratic-Republican Party The Democratic-Republican Party, known at the time as the Republican Party and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early ...

, active circa 1790s–1820s *

Liberal Republican Party (United States) The Liberal Republican Party was an American political party that was organized in May 1872 to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters in the presidential election of 1872. The party emerged in ...

, active 1872 *

National Republican Party The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, was a political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Qu ...

, active circa 1820s *

Puerto Rico Republican Party The Republican Party of Puerto Rico ( es, Partido Republicano de Puerto Rico) is the local affiliate of the national United States Republican Party in Puerto Rico. The affiliation started in 1903. The party does not participate in the November ...

Other Republican Parties in the Americas

Republican Party (Canada) The Parti républicain/Republican Party was a Quebec-based Canadian political party that nominated two candidates in federal by-elections in 1971. None were elected.The Globe and Mail, June 12, 1971, "Parti Republicain: Quebec groups join to form f ...

* Republican Party (Jamaica)

Asia

India

Republican Party of India The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The 'Training School for Entrance to Polit ...

*Factions, splinter groups and attempts at unification: **

Republican Party of India (Athawale) The Republican Party of India (Athawale) ( RPI(A)) is a political party in India. The party is a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The president of the pa ...

Republican Party of India (Gavai) The Republican Party of India (Gawai) is a political party in India. It is a splinter group of the Republican Party of India. The leaders are List of Governors of Kerala, former Governor of Kerala R. S. Gavai and his son Rajendra Gawai.The curr ...

Peoples Republican Party The Peoples Republican Party, also known as Republican Party of India (Kawade), is a political party in India. PRP is a splinter group of the old B. R. Ambedkar's Republican Party of India. The leader of the party is Jogendra Kawade. Its presen ...

Republican Party of India (Democratic) The Republican Party of India (Democratic) was a political party in India. The leader and party president of the party was T. M. Kamble. After T. M. Kamble's death, Nanda T. Kamble became the president of the party. The party was a splinter gr ...

Republican Party of India (Kamble) The Republican Party of India (Kamble) is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India. The leader of the party is B. C. Kamble. Its presence is limited to Maharashtra among Dalits. Recently, all ...

Republican Party of India (Khobragade) The Republican Party of India (Khobragade) is a political party in India, a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and named for its leader, B. D. Khobragade. The National President is now Sunil Harishchandra Ramteke. RPI(K) has now u ...

Republican Party of India (United) The Republican Party of India (United), or RPI(U) is a coalition of many factions of the Republican Party of India (RPI). It was formed in preparation for the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. The party was initially led by Rajendra ...

Other Republican Parties in Asia

Republican Party of Afghanistan Republican Party of Afghanistan ( fa, حزب جمهوریخواهان افغانستان, ''Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan-e Afghanistan'') is a political party in Afghanistan. When the party was founded in 1999, it declared the Universal Declaration of Hum ...

Republican Party (Cambodia) The Republican Party ( km, គណបក្សសាធារណរដ្ឋ; french: Parti républicain) was a Cambodian short-lived political movement established during the Khmer Republic period (1970–75). History The Republican Party was o ...

Republican Party (China) The Republican Party () was a short-lived political party in the Republican era of China from 1912 to 1913. History The party was formed on 9 May 1912 in Shanghai by political groups who opposed to the Tongmenghui, and later the Nationalist Par ...

Republican Party (East Timor) The Republican Party (Timorese: ''Partidu Republikanu'') is a political party in East Timor. In the parliamentary election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are cho ...

Islamic Republican Party The Islamic Republican Party (IRP; fa, حزب جمهوری اسلامی, Ḥezb-e Jomhūrī-e Eslāmī, also translated Islamic Republic Party) formed in 1979 to assist the Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini establish theocracy in Iran. ...

, in Iran *

Republican Party (Maldives) The Jumhooree Party ( dv, ޖުމްހޫރީ ޕާޓީ, ''Republican Party'') is a political party in the Maldives. The party was founded by a group of MPs on 26 May 2008, and grew quickly, rapidly overtaking the Maldivian Democratic Party to becom ...

Mongolian Republican Party The Mongolian Republican Party ( mn, Монголын Бүгд Найрамдах Нам, ''Mongolyn Bügd Nairamdakh Nam''), usually shortened to simply the Republican Party, is a political party in Mongolia founded in the early 1990s with a conser ...

Civic Will – Republican Party The Civic Will – Republican Party ( mn, Иргэний Зориг - Бүгд Найрамдах Нам, ''Irgenii Zorig Bügd Nairamdakh Nam'') was a short-lived political party in Mongolia. It was the result of a merger between S. Oyuun's Civic ...

, in Mongolia *

Republican Turkish Party The Republican Turkish Party ( tr, Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP) is a social-democratic political party in Northern Cyprus. The party was founded in 1970 by Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu, a lawyer, in opposition to the leadership of Fazıl Küçü ...

, in Northern Cyprus *

Republican Party (Pakistan) The Pakistani Republican Party was formed in October 1955, by a break away faction of the Muslim League and other politicians supporting the creation of the West Pakistan province, on the instigation of key leaders in the military and civil servi ...

Republican Party (Philippines) The Republican Party was a political party in the Philippines. It was founded by Gregorio Aglipay, the Supreme Bishop of the Philippine Independent Church. Gregorio Aglipay founded the party in 1905. It was subsequently banned by the United States ...

Europe

France

Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party The Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (french: Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste) is a liberal and formerly social-liberal political party in France. It is also often referred to simply as the Radical Party (frenc ...

Independent Republicans The Independent Republicans (french: Républicains Indépendants, RI) were a liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative political group in France founded in 1962, which became a list of political parties in France, political party in 1966 known ...

Republican Party (France) The Republican Party (french: Parti républicain, PR) was a conservative-liberal political party in France founded in 1977. It replaced the National Federation of the Independent Republicans that was founded in 1966. It was created by the then- ...

Rally for the Republic The Rally for the Republic (french: Rassemblement pour la République ; RPR ), was a Gaullist and conservative political party in France. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 a ...

Democratic Republican Alliance The Democratic Alliance (french: Alliance démocratique, AD), originally called Democratic Republican Alliance (, ARD), was a French political party created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta such as Raymond Poincaré, who would be presiden ...

The Republicans (France) The Republicans (french: Les Républicains, ; LR) is a liberal-conservative political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. It holds Pro-Europeanism, pro-European views. The party was formed on 30 May 2015 from the renaming ...

Iceland

Republican Party (Iceland, 1953) The Republican Party ( is, Lýðveldisflokkurinn) was a political party in Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country i ...

* Republican Party (Iceland, 2013)

Ireland

Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil (, ; meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party ( ga, audio=ga-Fianna Fáil.ogg, Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a conservative and Christian- ...

, full name Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party, in Ireland *

Republican Sinn Féin Republican Sinn Féin or RSF ( ga, Sinn Féin Poblachtach) is an Irish republican political party in Ireland. RSF claims to be heirs of the Sinn Féin party founded in 1905 and took its present form in 1986 following a split in Sinn Féin. RS ...

Sinn Féin Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gri ...

Italy

European Republicans Movement The European Republicans Movement ( it, Movimento Repubblicani Europei, MRE) is a minor social-liberal political party in Italy This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history ...

Italian Republican Party The Italian Republican Party ( it, Partito Repubblicano Italiano, PRI) is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Italy. Founded in 1895, the PRI is the oldest political party still active in Italy. The PRI has old roots and a long histo ...

The Republicans (Italy) The Republicans ( it, I Repubblicani) is a non-partisan think tank and association in Italy, that operates like federation between several conservative and libertarian organization, as Tea Party Italy, Modernize Italy, as well as businessmen, l ...

Other Republican Parties in Europe

Republican Party of Albania The Republican Party of Albania (, PR or PRSH ) is a national-conservative political party in Albania. It currently holds 3 of the 140 seats in the Parliament of Albania, in alliance with the Democratic Party of Albania. History The party was fou ...

Republican Party of Armenia The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA, hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետական Կուսակցություն, ՀՀԿ; ''Hayastani Hanrapetakan Kusaktsutyun'', ''HHK'') is a national-conservative political party in Armenia led by the thir ...

Republican Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) The Republican Party ( bs, Republikanska stranka, RS) was a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina founded in 1994. It adopted a secular policy but did not win support from many Bosniaks. History The party was founded in 1994 by Bosnian Croat ...

Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants sk, Republikánska strana zemedelského a maloroľníckeho ľudu , logo = , leader = Stanislav KubrJosef ŽďárskýAntonín Švehla Rudolf Beran , foundation = , dissolution = , merged = Party of National Unity , youth ...

(Czechoslovakia) * Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) * Republican Party (Estonia) *

Republic (Faroe Islands) Republic ( fo, Tjóðveldi), formerly known as the Republican Party ( fo, Tjóðveldisflokkurin) is a left-wing political party on the Faroe Islands committed to Faroese independence. History The party was founded in 1948 as a reaction to th ...

Republican Party of Georgia The Republican Party of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს რესპუბლიკური პარტია, ''sakartvelos resp'ublik'uri part'ia''), commonly known as the Republicans (რესპუბლიკელებ� ...

The Republicans (Germany) The Republicans (german: Die Republikaner, REP) is a national conservative political party in Germany. The primary plank of the programme is opposition to immigration. The party tends to attract protest voters who think that the Christian Democra ...

Republican Party (Hungary) The Republican Party ( hu, Köztársaság Párt; KP) was a conservative liberal centre party in Hungary. History The Republican Party was founded by entrepreneurs, businessmen and intellectuals on 3 August 1992, at the initiative of economist a ...

Republican Party of Moldova The Republican Party of Moldova ( ro, Partidul Republican din Moldova) is a political party in Moldova. History Republican Party of Moldova (RPM) was established on 15 August 1999. The Founding Congress adopted the party program and bylaws and ele ...

The Republicans (Poland) The Republicans ( pl, Republikanie) is a national-conservative political party in Poland, and former political association. It was founded as an association in 2013, which was instrumental in the creation of Kukiz'15, which it joined in 2017. ...

Portuguese Republican Party The Portuguese Republican Party (, ) was a Portuguese political party formed during the late years of the constitutional monarchy that proposed and conducted the substitution of the monarchy with the Portuguese First Republic.Republican Party (Romania) The Republican Party ( ro, Partidul Republican, PR) was a political party in Romania. In 1993 it merged with two other parties to create the Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PSDR), although some dissatisfied members created a party with the ...

Republican Party (Turkey) Republican Party ( tr, Cumhuriyetçi Parti, CP) was a former political party in Turkey. The Republican People's Party (CHP) which is usually credited as the founder of the Turkish Republic in 1923 was the oldest party in Turkey. But after the pa ...

Republican Party of the Russian Federation The People's Freedom Party (russian: Партия народной свободы, Partiya narodnoy svobody) or shortly PARNAS (russian: ПАРНАС), formerly Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party, initially Republican Party of Ru ...

Yugoslav Republican Party The Yugoslav Republican Party ( sr-cyr, Југословенска републиканска странка), was a party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes active between 1920 and 1929. Founded by a group of Liberal intellectuals as the ...

Oceania

Republican Party of Australia The Republican Party of Australia was a minor Australian political party dedicated to ending the country's links with the United Kingdom and establishing a republic. It was formed in 1982 and registered by the Australian Electoral Commission on ...

Republican Party of Guam The Republican Party of Guam, commonly referred to as Guam GOP (abbreviation for Guam Grand Old Party), is a political party in Guam affiliated with the United States Republican Party. In the 2018 general election, Republican Party candidates w ...

New Zealand Republican Party (1967) The New Zealand Republican Party of 1967 was a political party which campaigned for the creation of a New Zealand republic. It was founded by Bruce Jesson in 1967, and was linked to the Republican Association. It did not win any seats in Parlia ...

New Zealand Republican Party (1995) The New Zealand Republican Party of 1995 was a political party which campaigned for the creation of a New Zealand republic as one of its main policies. It existed from 1995 to 2002. Founding The party was registered as an incorporated society ...

Republican Party (Northern Mariana Islands) The CNMI Republican Party is a political party in the Northern Mariana Islands. The Northern Mariana Islands Republican Party is now associated with the United States Republican Party though no Northern Mariana Islands politicians have achieved ...

Vanuatu Republican Party The Vanuatu Republican Party (french: Parti Républicain de Vanuatu, bi, Ripablikan Pati blong Vanuatu) is a centrist political party in Vanuatu. At the last 2016 Vanuatuan general election, general elections, held on 22 January 2016, they won ...