List of political parties by ideology - Definition and Overview

This is a list of political parties around the world.

Ways to browse Wikipedia for political parties are by name of the party, country, ideology or by membership of internationals and through the category system: especially by country and ideology. See also the List of generic names of political parties

Introduction

A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections.

See political party for a more comprehensive discussion.

Political parties by ideology

• christian democratic parties
• communist parties
• conservative parties
• ethnic regionalist parties
• green parties
• liberal and similar parties
• social democratic parties
• frivolous parties

Trans-national world groupings and parties

• Liberal International
• International Democrat Union
• List of left-wing internationals
  • Socialist International
  • List of left communist internationals
  • List of Trotskyist internationals
• Global Greens