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The Whig Party disappeared following the election of 1854.
republican party
The Federalists pretty much disappeared after their candidate, John Adams, lost the election in 1800. Of the organized parties, the Whigs split up between 1854 and 1860 over the issue of slavery, many joining the new Republican Party.
The whigs and democrats would not take a strong stand about the slavery issue --1854
For all practical purposes, the new Republican Party replaced the Whig party and firmly displaced the Whigs. The Whigs basically disappeared and the new Republican Party was the only serious rival to the dominating Democrats.
It might help if you would tell us to which election you refer. There were thousands of elections across the planet in 1854...
In 1852, Franklin Pierce won the election to be the 14th US President. In 1856 James Buchanan was elected to be the 15th US President. Therefore, there was no presidential election in 1854.
In 1854.
The Free Soil Party nominated ex-president, Martin Van Buren, former Democrat from New York. He was able to attract enough votes, especially in New York, to tip the election to Taylor over the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass.
1854 wasn't a general election, only the senate. But this was the year of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which offered some hope of a workable compromise. 1856 was the election of Buchanan, who was sufficiently pro-South to stave off secession for a while.
1854
In early 1854, the first meeting of what became the Republican Party. took place in Ripon, Wisconsin. On June 6, 1854 near Jackson, Michigan, about 10,000 people turned out for a mass meeting. This led to the first organizing convention in Pittsburgh on February 22, 1856 . The Party's first nominating convention was in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1856.