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Opposition may refer to:


Arts and media

* ''Opposition'' (Altars EP), 2011 EP by Christian metalcore band Altars * The Opposition (band), a London post-punk band * '' The Opposition with Jordan Klepper'', a late-night television series on Comedy Central


Politics

* Loyal opposition *
Parliamentary opposition Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system. This article uses the term ''government'' as it is used in Parliamentary systems, i.e. meaning ''t ...
, a form of political opposition * Opposition (politics), a party with views opposing those of the current government * Leader of the Opposition


Opposition parties

* Opposition (Australia) * Opposition (Queensland), Australia *
Ministerialists and Oppositionists (Western Australia) Ministerialists and Oppositionists (Western Australia) were political groupings that were in force in the Western Australian parliament between 1890 and 1911. At the establishment of the WA parliament in 1890, Ministerialists were defined as t ...
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Bahraini opposition The Bahraini opposition refers to a group of political groups who are opposed to the Cabinet of Bahrain government and the ruling monarch of the Sunni House of Khalifa. Currently, the Bahraini opposition can be divided into the officially registere ...
* Official Opposition (Canada) * Opposition (Croatia) * Opposition Party (Hungary) * Official Opposition (India) * Opposition Front Bench (Ireland) * Opposition (Malaysia) * Opposition (Montenegro) * Official Opposition (New Zealand) * His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition (United Kingdom)


United States

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Opposition Party (Northern U.S.) The Opposition Party was a party identification under which Northern anti-slavery politicians, formerly members of the Democratic and the Whig Parties, briefly ran in the 1850s in response to the expansion of slavery into the new territories. ...
(1854–1858), a Northern anti-slavery party absorbed by the Republican Party * Opposition Party (Southern U.S.) (1858–1860), a Southern anti-secession party just before the Civil War * Opposition Party (Illinois) (1874), a coalition opposing Republican Party rule in Chicago and Cook County


Other uses

* Binary opposition, a pair of related terms that are opposite in meaning * Opposition (boolean algebra), two terms with a shared literal, one positive, the other negative * Opposition (chess), the position of the kings relative to each other * Opposition (astronomy), the position of a celestial body * Opposition (astrology), astrological aspect in horoscopic astrology * Opposition proceeding, an administrative process available under some patent or trademark laws * Opposition of the thumb, the location of the thumb opposite to the fingers so that the hand can grasp objects * Square of opposition, a type of logic diagram


See also

* Iraqi opposition (disambiguation) *
Opposite (disambiguation) Opposite or Opposites may refer to: * Opposite (semantics), a word that means the reverse of a word * Opposite (leaf), an arrangement of leaves on a stem * Opposite (mathematics), the negative of a number; numbers that, when added, yield zero *" T ...
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