List of political parties in Taiwan - Definition and Overview

Political parties in Taiwan lists political parties in Taiwan (Republic of China). 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.

Taiwan developed into a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.

The parties

The general rule on naming applies. That means: the parties are named in the English translation and the original native name is placed on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form. Rationale and specifics: See: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English).

Major parties

• Pan-green coalition
  • Democratic Progressive Party
  • Taiwan Solidarity Union
  • Taiwan Independence Party
• Pan-blue coalition
  • Kuomintang
  • People First Party
  • New Party
• Non-Partisan Solidarity Union

Minor parties

• • China Old Veterans Unification Party 中國老兵統一黨
  • Taiwan Number One Party 台灣吾黨
  • The Great Chinese Front of Unification 大中華統一陣線
  • The New Nation Association 新國家連線
  • Democratic Alliance 民主聯盟
  • Natural Law Party 自然律黨
  • Taiwan Independence Party 建國黨
  • Green Party Taiwan 綠黨
  • Non-Party Alliance 全國民主非政黨聯盟
  • Farmers' Party 農民黨
  • Chinese Liberal Democratic Party 中國自由民主黨
  • Labor Party 勞動黨
  • Chinese Youth Party 中國青年黨

Defunct parties

• • Taiwanese Communist Party
  • Taiwanese People's Party

See also

• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals
• Liberalism in Taiwan
• List of political parties in the People's Republic of China
• List of political parties in Hong Kong