... other sources to try to answer this question in both a factual and informative way. Pressure groups are not a political party. Nor are they seen by many, for example, the Government, the media and the public, as being so. The main differences between political parties and pressure groups being namely, that political parties seek to be elected and to govern the country as a whole, whereas, pressure groups do not. However, there are some pressure groups which do stand for election, all be it in the minority, for example, the anti-abortion group and the referendum party, which are, in actual fact, single issue groups. These do in the main, stand in elections, yet political parties still have a stronghold within elections. Secondly, pressure groups tend to concentrate on fewer issues, sometimes only one, which are known as single-issue groups, as previously mentioned. For example, the environment, fighting against the Poll ...

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