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This is a list of political parties in the United States, both past and present. The list does not include independents. Not all states allow the public to access voter registration data. Therefore, voter registration data should not be taken as the correct value and should be viewed as an underestimate.
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
Fiji Labour Party: 1987, 1999–2000 Finland: Social Democratic Party of Finland: 1926–1927, 1937–1959, 1966–1991, 1995–2007, 2011–2015, 2019–2023: yes France: French Section of the Workers' International: Socialist Party: 1981–1995, 1997–2002, 2012–2017: yes Gibraltar: Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party Germany: Social ...
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or policy goals.
A party system is a concept in comparative political science concerning the system of government by political parties in a democratic country. The idea is that political parties have basic similarities: they control the government, have a stable base of mass popular support, and create internal mechanisms for controlling funding, information and nominations.
The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, with emphasis placed upon issues of social equality and social hierarchy. In addition to positions on the left and on the right, there are centrist and moderate positions, which are not strongly aligned with either end of the spectrum.
Legal status as a political party (seitÅ) is tied to having five members in the Diet or one member and at least two percent nationally of either proportional or majoritarian vote in one of the three elections of the current members of the National Diet, i.e. the last House of Representatives general election and the last two House of Councillors regular elections.
This template is designed to make it easier to read tables where the name of a political party appears as one of the columns. Rather than a table where party names appear on a background colour, which can provide poor accessibility, this template creates two columns, one with a coloured bar and one with the party name, both populated from the political party module).