American Parties

[RakuraiTenjin]

Okay, of course most people who are outside the US know about the dominant national parties, the Republicans and the Democrats.

While these two parties also hold a majority of seats outside of national politics on a lower level, the playing field is a lot more level and other groups can come into play much easier. Third parties may rarely win national seats but VERY often they take more local seats, sometimes even state seats (less often though) A lot of people outside the US don't realize the 2 party domination isn't as strong on a local level as it is on a national level.

Sometimes third parties will fund, support, etc a candidate under the banner of one of the 2 dominant parties for national election. For instance, sometimes the Socialists have a few in national office under the Democratic Party, the Libertarians a few in office under the Republican Party AND Democratic Party, etc.

I'd like to now make a thread compiling every US party that can be found. Some of these don't even operate on a national level yet as far as elections go.

Hehe, for once a thread not involving debate between us members, but fitting politics!

There are some others I found too, but I saw no evidence of them actually -doing- anything besides existing so I didn't list them. All of these are active. Post more if you know of them or any that are active in your area.

Here we go!


Republican Party
Democrat Party
Libertarian Party
Corporatist Party
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Green Party
Reform Party
Reform Split Party (Party split in two after nearly winning the 1992 Presidency)
America First Party
Independent Party
Constitution Party
Falange Party
Fascist Party
Labor Party
Light Party
Nazi Party
Knights Party
Nazi Green Party
Marijuana Party
Veterans Party

 

[Icarusintel]

where are the Federalists?

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

The Federalists haven't been around since 1800...

This is currently active parties.

Unless you mean there is a group reviving it under that name, if so post it.

 

[Recoil]

I already saw the page of the nazi-party... frightening.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

There is a Nazi Green party too, I saw that and looked at their page and it made me laugh. A viscious hate group. But they are caring and care about the environment.

It's just weird. Also that school shooter was a member of their party apparantly.

edit: Perhaps we could add Canada to this list in this thread and have a list, then have a European thread broken down by country also listing parties. Then have the threads stickied. That would be very useful because sometimes when people talk about UK politics, Swedish politics, etc etc I have no idea what the hell is going on

 

[Recoil]

Good idea, but someone from each country would have to translate the contents/programs of each party. Maybe I can do that for GER.

 

[Que-Ever]

Donner Party?
I may seem to be being an ass, but I'm asking a serious question; are you including all the fake parties that some arses are going to have put on their ballads?

another question, why are you donig this again? did I miss the reason? Or is it... just because?

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Donner Party?
I may seem to be being an ass, but I'm asking a serious question; are you including all the fake parties that some arses are going to have put on their ballads?

another question, why are you donig this again? did I miss the reason? Or is it... just because?

haha good one.

But I'm putting all parties that are alive today and active. Doing so because a lot of people outside the US or in the US who are new to getting involved in politics don't know a lot about third party activity on a local level. I'm interested in seeing what some folks have going on in their area, I think for instance the south has a few seccesion parties around and such.

 

[The Monkey]

Here in Sweden we got seven parties in the parliament. From left to right

The Left Party - Socialists/Communists
The Social Democratic Party
The Green party
The Centrist Agricultural Party
The Christian Democratic Party - Liberals
The People's Party - Liberals
The Moderates - Liberal with some conservative views

We also got some minor parties that hasn't reached the 4% limit, such as the feminists and the nationalists.

 

[CptStern]

Canada's political parties:

the main ones:

Liberal Party
New Democratic Party
Progressive Conservative Party


other national parties
Alberta First Party
Alberta Equity Party
Alberta Independence Party
Alberta Social Credit Party
British Columbia Social Credit Party
British Columbia Party
Canadian Action Party
Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party
Cannabis Canada Party
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
Confederation of Regions
Family Coalition Party of British Columbia
Family Coalition Party of Ontario
Freedom Party of Ontario
Humanist Party
Libertarian Party
New Canada Party
The Natural Law Party
Nova Scotia Party
Rhinocerous Party
Saskatchewan Party
Saskatchewan Party Caucus
Socialist Alternative
Socialist Party of Canada
Western Canada Concept
The Yukon Party


Québec Parties
L'Action démocratique du Québec
Bloc Pot
Bloc Québécois
Equality Party
Parti de la démocratie socialiste
Parti Éléphant Blanc du Québec
Parti Québécois
Parti libéral du Québec
Union Nationale

 

[Recoil]

Ok, here's the main German parties

SPD - social democrats, pretty liberal (in the European sense, not the new US-one)
CDU - christian democratic union (main conservative party, extremely strong in the south)
FDP - the ultra-centrist-liberals, capitalistc (again, the classic meaning of liberal)
PDS - the socialist-leftist party
The Greens - well... guess. Environmentalists. They used to be, actually...

More parties:
NPD - quasi-Nazi-party
The Grey Panthers - hehe, retired-one's party
KPD - communist-party
PBC - hehe, bible-obbeying-christian-extremist party
REP - the republican party, almost as bad as the NPD.

 

[Icarusintel]

The Federalists haven't been around since 1800...

This is currently active parties.

Unless you mean there is a group reviving it under that name, if so post it.

guess i'm a couple hundred years too late... maybe i should revive it :upstare:

 

[baxter]

Ok here's the UK's

Labour Party
Conservative Party
Liberal Democrats
British National Party
Central Alliance Party
Communist Party of Britain
Green Party of England and Wales
Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Liberal Party
National Democrats
Natural Law Party
Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Pensioners Party
ProLife Party
Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Labour Party
Socialist Party
Socialist Party of Great Britain
Socialist Workers Party
Third Way
UK Independence Party

Plaid Cymru
Welsh Liberal Democrats Highlands and Islands Alliance
Scottish Green Party
Scottish National Party
Scottish Liberal Democrats
Scottish Socialist Party

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Green Party of Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Socialist Party
Northern Ireland Unionist Party
Progressive Unionist Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Sinn Fein
Socialist Workers Party Ireland
Socialist Workers Party in Northern Ireland
Ulster Democratic Unionist Party
Ulster Third Way
Ulster Unionist Party

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

If you guys can get links to these for the party HQ's it'd be good too, so we can know what the party is about when it's mentioned in debate or news articles.

Can a mod rename the thread to Political Parties (or something to that effect) and sticky this thread, please? This would be very useful

 

[Gray Fox]

Parties Holland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_Netherlands
http://www.benne.luna.nl/pp/eur/nl/

 

[baxter]

UK links:

http://bubl.ac.uk/uk/parties.htm

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Are you guys in favor of having this thread stickied? :[. I can tell what's going to happen as it gets pushed down into the bottom of the forum and lost so that's why I just bumped it with this question . But if a lot of people really don't want it stickied and it's just me it can just go away. lol.

 

[diluted]

Canada's political parties:

Progressive Conservative Party

They aren't "Progressive" anymore, Stern. Just plain ol' Conservatives..

 

[CptStern]

opps I didnt even notice that when I pasted it

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Haha, they're not progressive anymore.

Political commentary!

 

[mortiz]

Damn, if only my constituency had a Monster Raving Loony Party representative.