Political party

In politics, a political party was a group with the same ideology.

United Kingdom
In the 17th and 18th century, Parliament was made up of the Tories and the Whigs. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep) The Tories were followers of the King while the Whigs opposed the divine right of the King and advocated for free trade. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)

The Conservative Party and the Liberal Party existed in the 1960s. (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane)

The SNP (PROSE: The Dying Days) and the Greens were parties in 1997. (PROSE: Head of State)

Upon becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as "Harold Saxon" with the Vote Saxon campaign, accused the members of his Cabinet of abandoning their parties when they saw the vote swinging his way. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

United States
In the United States of America, the Federalists and Republicans were parties in 1799. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)

Abraham Lincoln was a Whig congressman prior to 1858. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)

The Black Panthers were an American guerrilla group in the 1960s. (PROSE: Dead Romance, The Devil Goblins from Neptune)

By 2012, the opposing political parties were Republican and Democrat. (TV: Dalek)

The Libertarian and Green parties were minor Parties. They endorsed Matt Nelson, a Democratic Farm-Labor party senator who ran for President under the Radical Party. (PROSE: Head of State)

Austria
The Communist Party of Austria saved Dieter Allegro's parents flee the Anschluss during World War II. (PROSE: The Danger Men)

China
The Kuomintang overthrew the boy Emperor Pu Yi and took charge of China during the 1911 revolution.

A Communist party fought against the Kuomintang into the 1930s. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang) They controlled China by 1951. (PROSE: Endgame)

Cuba
Cuba was controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba. (PROSE: The Danger Men)

Germany
The DVP, KPD, NSDAP, SPD, and Z were parties in Weimar Germany. They fought the elections of July and November 1932. (AUDIO: The Alchemists)

The NSDAP, better known as the Nazis, rose to power in 1933 and formed the Third Reich (PROSE: Just War) which lasted until 1945. (PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass)

Spain
During the Spanish Civil War, the anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and communist Partido Obero de Unificacion Marxista fought for the Republicans against the Nationalists. (PROSE: History 101)

Japan
The Sakura Kai as a brotherhood of Japanese military officers and politicians that engineered a number of incidents which drove Japan and China closer to war in 1937. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

Soviet Union
The Soviet Communist Party ruled the Soviet Union. (PROSE: Revolution Man)

Behind the scenes

 * The three major political parties of the United Kingdom — Conservative Party, Labour Party, and Liberal Democrats — were respectively represented by the red Drone Dalek, blue Strategist Dalek and yellow Eternal Dalek across the three alternate covers of the 3-9 April 2010 edition of the Radio Times.
 * Despite the Liberal Democrats's colour being amber (a yellow-orange colour), the orange Scientist Dalek was not used.