Alliance Party

The term Alliance Party is used of several political parties throughout the world. Among them are:

• The Alliance - a political party in New Zealand which attracted a lot of support in the 1990s, but collapsed in 1999.
• The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland - a minor, nonsectarian party
• The Canadian Alliance - a former Canadian political party, formed by the merger of the Reform Party with some conservatives in 1996. The Canadian Alliance recently merged (2003) with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the Conservative Party of Canada.
• The Fijian Alliance - the former ruling party of Fiji (1970-1987)
• The Liberal-Social Democrat Alliance, popularly known simply as "The Alliance," a formal electoral alliance comprising the Liberal Party (United Kingdom) and the Social Democratic Party, prior to the merger of the two parties as the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom) in 1989.