The party has had two splinter factions so far:

Twitchers are widely viewed by the wider bird-loving community as a fanatical splinter faction, and treated with suspicion.

The professor, who now heads a splinter faction, said he wanted to be a third signatory on the document, which had only two dotted lines for rebels.

He broke away and setup his own splinter faction.

Only the treachery of a splinter faction of its oligarchs had forced the planet to surrender.

It was unclear whether Doi or Gamma was the leader of the splinter faction.

But other members of Al Aksa said they were not responsible, and blamed a splinter faction.

Such groups often have splinter factions, in which there is a division of opinion as to their methods.

And, as happens with most large gangs, splinter factions began to form.

Megatron betrays the Autobots and creates a splinter faction known as the Decepticons.