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Conservative & Country Party | |
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| Abbreviation | C&C |
| Leader | Arthur Warwick |
| Chairman | Philip Fairfax |
| Founder | André Willemse (Conservative Party) Richard Somerset (Country Party) |
| Founded | June 1, 1878 |
| Preceded by | Conservative Party Country Party |
| Headquarters | O'Connell House, 27th September Road, Port Hope |
| Newspaper | The Clubhouse Report |
| Youth wing | Young Conservatives |
| Colors | Blue |
| House of Representatives | 84 / 152
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| Senate | 45 / 96
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| Province/territory governments | 4 / 8
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| Province/territory legislative assemblies | 255 / 594
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| Website | |
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The Conservative & Country Party is a Satavian centre-right political party that operates at all levels of governance in Satavia. It is one of the two major parties that have, since 1976, dominated Satavian politics alongside the Liberal Party.
The Conservative & Country Party's oldest predecessor, the Country Party, was established as a federal party to run in the 1816 Satavian general election by Richard Somerset. The party would ultimately win the election with a comfortable majority and would rule from 1816 until 1831, with a two-year interruption whilst Pieter Dandre and his Asteriaaner Nasionale party governed the country. The party would then spend the next fourteen years in opposition to the United Party (Satavia) before holding power for another ten years from 1845 until 1855. Donald Pienaar, the leader of the Country Party in 1855, had fallen ill and his illness contributed to their wipeout defeat at the 1855 general election. The Country Party would remain a minor force within Satavian politcs for the next fifty years, but would not achieve a majority in the Satavian parliament until the Crisis of 1906 ushered in Harry Goldmann who was elected in the March 1906 election but his massively instable government collapsed by November that year and he subsequently lost power to a big-tent coalition of opposing parties. The Country Party declined as a political force after this and later merged with the Conservative Party in 1911.
Meanwhile, the Conservative Party