Republican Party (United States)
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Republican Party | |
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| Founders | Abraham Lincoln Alvan E. Bovay Horace Greeley Edwin D. Morgan Amos Tuck |
| Founded | 1854 (166 years ago) |
| Split from | Whig Party |
| Headquarters | Washington D.C., U.S. |
| Student wing | College Republicans |
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| Women's wing | Republican Women |
| LGBT wing | Log Cabin Republicans |
| Overseas wing | Republicans Overseas |
| Membership (2020) | ▲ 51,094,285 |
| Ideology | Social liberalism Fiscal conservatism Establishmentism |
| Political position | Centrist |
| Colors | Red |
The Republican Party is one of the three main contemporary political parties in the United States alongside the Progressive Party and the America First Party. Modern American liberalism — a variant of social liberalism — is the party's majority ideology. The party also has notable centrist, social conservative, and both right-libertarian and left-libertarian factions.