PoliticalPartyDB
101 political parties from every continent, current and historical. From the Democratic and Republican machines to Labour, the CDU, the BJP, and the parties that rose and fell before them, understand who organizes power.
Key Parties
Democratic Party (US)
The Democratic Party traces its roots to the Democratic-Republican faction of Thomas Jefferson and took its modern name under Andr...
Republican Party (US)
The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from Northern opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the spread of slavery, nominating Abr...
Labour Party (UK)
Labour emerged from the Labour Representation Committee of 1900, a union and socialist alliance formed after Liberal failures to r...
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservatives descend from the Tory party of the late seventeenth century, defenders of crown and church who learned to surviv...
Christian Democratic Union
The CDU was founded in 1945 to unite Protestants and Catholics in a democratic Christian democratic party, drawing lessons from We...
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The SPD traces its founding to the 1863 ADAV of Ferdinand Lassalle and the 1869 party of Bebel and Liebknecht, united at Gotha in ...
Alliance 90/The Greens
Die Grunen entered the Bundestag in 1983 with a strident ecological and pacifist program, the first new party to do so in decades....
Swedish Social Democratic Party
SAP was founded in 1889 and built the folkhemmet, the people home, through decades of near unbroken governance: universal welfare,...
Federalist Party
The Federalists coalesced around Alexander Hamilton and the ratification of the Constitution, favoring a strong central government...