Union-Farmer Party (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo)

Timeline: French Trafalgar, British Waterloo

The Union-Farmer Party is an American political party created before the 2012 US Elections that is notable as the first major third party since the Liberal Party was disbanded and taken over by the Socialist Party in 1907. Taking advantage of lingering discontent among farmers in the Western states and workers who lost their jobs in the 2003 Economic Crisis and through globalization, the party was founded after a convention in 2011, and ran on a platform of healthcare reform, free college education for those left behind, farming subsidies, supporting "Made in America" manufacturing, scaling back the US military and foreign commitments and other centrist, populist, and isolationist policies, while also vowing that they will be a constructive part of the government, unlike the increasingly fractious and divisive Nationalist/Socialist split

The Union-Farmer Party didn't run a Presidential candidate in 2012, instead focusing on elections to the House of Representatives and Senate elections. In a surprise, the Union-Farmer Party managed to snag 25 seats in the House of Representatives and six in the Senate, making the new, upstart party a major factor in the next Congress, as the six senators held the balance of power in the Upper House. In 2014, the number of Union-Farmer Representatives went up to 31, while a further five senators were elected. For the 2016 election, Ken Newberry, a Senator from Kansas, was named the Presidential candidate of the Union-Farmer party, and using social media, highly publicized rallies and engaging many that felt they had been left behind and that the Socialist and Nationalist parties had abandoned the rest of the people, won the Presidency in an unprecedented election, upending the political system of the US, especially since the Socialist and Nationalist parties still held most of the seats in Congress.