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Washington was not affiliated with any political party. When Washington ran for president, there were no national political parties, at least not in the sense that we have them today.
The Democratic-Republican Party was the American political party in the 1790s of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison formed in opposition to the centralizing policies of the Federalist party. It came to power in 1800 and dominated national and state affairs until the 1820s, when it faded away.