The United Left (German: Vereinigte Linke) was a political party in Cisleithania, which existed from 1881 to 1885, which was liberal and centralist in orientation.
There was a growing polarization between Taaffe's Conservative Federalist government, which had been in office since 1879, and the German liberal opposition.
In the late 1870s, the Taaffe's government came to power in Cisleithania, combining Conservative and Federalist forces with the help of Czechs and Poles and relegating the Constitutionalist Liberals to opposition for a long time.
After the 1885 elections, which meant the final loss of the former majority of German liberals in the Reichsrat, the United Left split into two parties.
Its members renounced the liberals' earlier claim as a state party above nationalities and in the future explicitly represented German interests in the Habsburg monarchy.