Information: - The Patriot Whigs and, later Patriot Party, was a group within the Whig party in Great Britain from 1725 to 1803. The group was formed in opposition to the ministry of Robert Walpole in the House of Commons in 1725, when William Pulteney (later 1st Earl of Bath) and seventeen other Whigs joined with the Tory party in attacks against the ministry. By the middle of the 1730s, there were over one hundred opposition Whigs in the Commons, many of whom embraced the Patriot label. For many years they provided a more effective opposition to the Walpole administration than the Tories. - The British general election , 1727 , returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned , after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707 . The election was triggered by the death of King George I ; at the time it was the convention to hold new elections following the succession of a new monarch . The Tories , led in the House of Commons by William Wyndham and under the direction of Bolingbroke , who had returned to the country in 1723 after being pardoned for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1715 , lost further ground to the Whigs , rendering them ineffectual and largely irrelevant to practical politics . A group known as the Patriot Whigs led by William Pulteney , who were disenchanted with Walpole 's government and believed he was betraying Whig principles , had been formed prior to the election . Bolingbroke and Pulteney had not expected the next election to occur until 1729 , and were consequently caught unprepared and failed to make any gains against the government party . - Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 18 March 1745), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British who is generally regarded as the "de facto" first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Although the exact dates of his dominance are a matter of scholarly debate, 172142 are often used. He dominated the WalpoleTownshend ministry and the Walpole ministry and holds the record as the longest-serving Prime Minister in British history. Critics called his system the "Robinocracy". Speck says that Walpole's uninterrupted run of 20 years as Prime Ministeris rightly regarded as one of the major feats of British political history...Explanations are usually offered in terms of his expert handling of the political system after 1720, [and] his unique blending of the surviving powers of the crown with the increasing influence of the Commons.He was a Whig from the gentry class, who was first elected to Parliament in 1701, and held many senior positions. He was a country squire and looked to country gentlemen for his political base. Historian Frank O'Gorman says his leadership in Parliament reflected his "reasonable and persuasive oratory, his ability to move both the emotions as well as the minds of men, and, above all, his extraordinary self-confidence." Hoppit says Walpole's policies sought moderation: he worked for peace, lower taxes, growing exports, and allowed a little more tolerance for Protestant Dissenters. He avoided controversy and high-intensity disputes, as his middle way attracted moderates from both the Whig and Tory camps. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'british general election' exhibits the relationship of 'successful candidate'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - robert walpole - whig
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robert walpole