The first party platform in 1840 was released by the Democratic Party, although the Whigs did release a platform for the 1844 election.
The platform release had four sections.
A good place to view party platforms through present-day is:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25852
Liberty Party
peoples votes showed what party the supported
in the year 1840
1840 also there were many german immigrants that came about that time
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840.
1840
William Henry Harrison was elected President in 1840 as the candidate of the Whig Party.
Liberty Party
Whig Party
The Whigs ran William Henry Harrison in 1840 and won .
Democrats
The Whig party candidates for the presidential election of 1840 were William Henry Harrison, Henry Clay, and Winfield Scott.
The two party system in the US was firmly established by the early 19th century, with the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists as the main political parties. This system has persisted with different party alignments over time, but has remained the dominant political structure in the country.
Reinhard O. Johnson has written: 'The Liberty Party, 1840-1848' -- subject(s): Antislavery movements, History, Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
Great Liberal Party of Venezuela was created on 1840-08-21.
The Whig party grew up largely as an opposition party to Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party. It was strongest in the old Federalist strongholds of the Northeast and the old-line Southern states. Some noted Whigs leaders were John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. The party elected its first president in 1840 . It also won in 1848 but was soon divided over slavery, The Republican Party was formed and that was the last of the Whigs.
The "Anti-Mormon Party" began in the 1840's in Nauvoo, Illinois. It was a local political party for several years.