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| x Australian Labor Party | Australia |
The Australian Labor Party (also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912) is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal...
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Peter Garrett | ||
| Penny Wong | |||||
| Kevin Rudd | |||||
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| x Australian Democrats |
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Australia |
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former...
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Don Chipp | 1977 |
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| Brian Greig | |||||
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| x National Alliance | Italy |
National Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was a conservative political party in Italy.
Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non...
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Alessandra Mussolini | ||
| Sergio Berlato | |||||
| Alfredo Mantica | |||||
| Gianfranco Fini | |||||
| x Labour Party |
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United Kingdom |
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, and one of the two main British political parties along with the Conservative Party. The Labour Party was founded in 1900 and overtook the Liberal Party in general elections...
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Tony Benn | |
| Leslie Plummer | |||||
| Jim Fitzpatrick | |||||
| David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore | |||||
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| x British National Party | United Kingdom |
The British National Party (BNP) is a British far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982. It restricted membership to "indigenous British" people until 2010, after a legal challenge to its...
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Nick Griffin | ||
| John Tyndall | |||||
| Charles Parker | |||||
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| x Liberal Democrats | United Kingdom |
The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, environmentalism, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and...
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Paddy Ashdown | ||
| Lorely Burt | |||||
| Nicol Stephen | |||||
| Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby | |||||
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| x Country Liberal Party | Australia |
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party (CLP) is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National (formerly "Country") and Liberal parties. The CLP contests seats for the Coalition in the Northern Territory rather than the...
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Denis Burke | ||
| Shane Stone | |||||
| Grant Tambling | |||||
| Nigel Scullion | |||||
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| x Liberal Party of Australia | Australia |
The Liberal Party of Australia is one of the two major Australian political parties. Founded a year after the 1943 election to replace the United Australia Party (UAP) and its predecessors, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre...
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John Howard | ||
| Julie Bishop | |||||
| Martin Hamilton-Smith | |||||
| Robert Menzies | 1944 | ||||
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| x Mebyon Kernow | United Kingdom |
Mebyon Kernow (MK; Cornish for Sons of Cornwall) is a left-of-centre political party in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It primarily campaigns for devolution to Cornwall in the form of a Cornish Assembly, as well as social democracy and environmental...
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Dick Cole | ||
| Helena Charles | |||||
| Richard Jenkin | |||||
| x Nasjonal Samling |
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Norway |
Nasjonal Samling (Norwegian pronunciation: [nɑʃuˈnɑːl ˈsɑmlɪŋ], National Gathering, National Unification, or informally National Socialist Party), abbreviated NS, was a fascist party in Norway and was active during 1933 to 1945. Founded by former...
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Johan Andreas Lippestad | |
| Jonas Lie | |||||
| Alf Amble | |||||
| Vidkun Quisling | |||||
| Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang | |||||
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| x National Party of Australia |
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Australia |
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.
Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the Country Party, and then adopted the name the National Country Party in 1975. The party's name...
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Earle Page | |
| John McEwen | |||||
| Arthur Fadden | |||||
| Tim Fischer | |||||
| Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen | |||||
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| x Official Monster Raving Loony Party | United Kingdom |
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party is a registered political party established in the United Kingdom in 1983 by musician and politician David Sutch (1940–1999), better known as Screaming Lord Sutch.
Starting in 1963, David Sutch, of Screaming...
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Screaming Lord Sutch | ||
| Howling Laud Hope | |||||
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| x Shiv Sena |
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India |
Shiv Sena (Marathi: शिव सेना Śiv Senā, meaning Army of Shiv, referring to Shivaji, also SS), is a right-wing organization in India founded on 19 June 1966 by Bal Thackeray. It is currently headed by Thackeray's son, Uddhav Thackeray. The party...
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Bal Thackeray | |
| Mohan Rawale | |||||
| Uddhav Thackeray | |||||
| Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | |||||
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| x Green Party | United States of America |
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a national US-American political party founded in 1991 as a voluntary association of state green parties. With its founding, the Green Party of the United States became the primary national Green...
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Ralph Nader | ||
| Cynthia McKinney | Oct 2007 | ||||
| Barry Hermanson | |||||
| Thomas Lash | |||||
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| x United States Natural Law Party |
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United States of America |
The Natural Law Party (NLP) was a United States political party affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. It was founded in 1992 and was dissolved in many areas beginning in 2004.
The party proposed that political problems could be solved...
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| x Libertarian Party | United States of America |
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects the ideas of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong...
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Chris Maden | 1994 | |
| George Phillies | |||||
| Bob Barr | 2006 | ||||
| Mike Gravel | Mar 25, 2008 | ||||
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| x Republican Party |
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United States of America |
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP (Grand Old Party), although the rival...
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Strom Thurmond | Sep 16, 1964 |
| Robert Aderholt | |||||
| Spencer Bachus | |||||
| Josiah Bonner | |||||
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| x Conservative Party |
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United Kingdom |
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest single party in the House of...
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Airey Neave | |
| Kenneth Clarke | |||||
| Norman Hulbert | |||||
| Nigel Lawson | |||||
| Anthony Eden | |||||
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| x Constitution Party | United States of America |
The Constitution Party is a paleoconservative political party in the United States. It was founded as the U.S. Taxpayers' Party by Howard Philips in 1991. Phillips was the party's candidate in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. The...
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Alan Keyes | ||
| Chuck Baldwin | 2000 | ||||
| Darrell Castle | |||||
| Virgil Goode | |||||
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| x Canadian Alliance | Canada |
The Canadian Alliance (French: Alliance canadienne), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (French: Alliance réformiste-conservatrice canadienne), was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was...
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Deborah Grey | ||
| James Moore | |||||
| Chuck Cadman | |||||
| Rahim Jaffer | Mar 27, 2000 | ||||
| Jim Pankiw | |||||
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| x Plaid Cymru |
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Wales |
Plaid Cymru (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈplaɪd ˈkəmrɨ], English: The Party of Wales; often referred to simply as Plaid) is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state.
Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and won...
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Adam Price | |
| Ieuan Wyn Jones | |||||
| Dafydd Elis-Thomas | |||||
| Dafydd Wigley | |||||
| Elfyn Llwyd | |||||
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| x New Democratic Party |
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Canada |
The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique), commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The current leader of the NDP is Thomas Mulcair, who was elected in the 2012 leadership...
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Pat Martin | |
| Bev Desjarlais | |||||
| John Rodriguez | |||||
| Jean Crowder | |||||
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| x Bloc Québécois | Canada |
The Bloc Québécois (French pronunciation: [blɔk kebekwa], Quebec Bloc) is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was...
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Benoît Sauvageau | ||
| Louis Plamondon | Dec 20, 1990 | ||||
| Gilles Duceppe | |||||
| Gérard Asselin | |||||
| Claude Bachand | |||||
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| x Ulster Unionist Party | United Kingdom |
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP) or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the older of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Before the split in...
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Robert Bradford | ||
| David Trimble | |||||
| Enoch Powell | |||||
| Sylvia Hermon | |||||
| Jim Nicholson | |||||
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| x Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy | Iraq |
The Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy (ICM) is a monarchist political party in Iraq led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein.
Al-Hussein is related to the Hashemite royal family which ruled Iraq until 1958. He has succeeded in establishing himself as claimant...
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Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein | ||
| x Green Party of England and Wales |
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; (Welsh: Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr) is a political party in England and Wales which follows the traditions of Green politics and maintains a strong commitment to social progressivism. It is the largest...
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Sian Berry | |||
| Caroline Lucas | |||||
| Derek Wall | |||||
| Adrian Ramsay | |||||
| Keith Taylor | |||||
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| x One Nation Party | Australia |
One Nation is a right-wing and nationalist political party in Australia. Pauline Hanson founded the party after being elected as an independent due to her disendorsement as the preselected Liberal Party candidate for the Australian House of...
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Graeme Campbell | 2001 | |
| Len Harris | |||||
| Pauline Hanson | 1997 | ||||
| David Oldfield | |||||
| Jack Paff | |||||
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| x Parti Québécois |
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Canada |
The Parti Québécois (PQ) is a centre-left provincial political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social...
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René Lévesque | |
| Lucien Bouchard | |||||
| André Boisclair | |||||
| Jacques Parizeau | |||||
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| x Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | Canada |
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada) (PC) (1942–2003) was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
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Jacques Flynn | ||
| Kim Campbell | |||||
| John Diefenbaker | |||||
| Jean Pigott | |||||
| Lincoln Alexander | |||||
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| x Latvian National Independence Movement | Latvia |
The Latvian National Independence Movement (Latvijas Nacionālās Neatkarības Kustība or LNNK) was a political organization in Latvia from 1988 till mid-1990s.
It formed in 1988, as the radical wing of Latvian nationalist movement. Unlike the...
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| x Bharatiya Janata Party | India |
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP pronunciation (help·info); translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest...
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| Lal Krishna Advani | |||||
| Raman Singh | |||||
| Maneka Gandhi | |||||
| H. T. Sangliana | |||||
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| x Indian National Congress | India |
The Indian National Congress (abbreviated INC, and commonly known as the Congress) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political...
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Mahatma Gandhi | ||
| Shankar Dayal Sharma | |||||
| Indira Gandhi | |||||
| Rajiv Gandhi | |||||
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | |||||
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| x Liberal Party of Canada | Canada |
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federal party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the...
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Raymond Bonin | ||
| Judy Erola | |||||
| Martin Cauchon | |||||
| Derek Lee | |||||
| John McKay | |||||
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| x Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
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Canada |
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) (French: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, then in 1955 rebranded in French as Parti social démocratique du Canada) was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number...
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Tommy Douglas | |
| Donald C. MacDonald | |||||
| J. S. Woodsworth | |||||
| Arnold Webster | |||||
| Arnold Peters | |||||
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| x National Rainbow Coalition | Kenya |
The National Rainbow Coalition (National Alliance of Rainbow Coalition - NARC) was a coalition of Kenyan political parties in power from 2002 and 2005 when it fell apart in a controversy between its wings about a constitutional referendum.
In...
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Moody Awori | 2002 | |
| Charity Ngilu | |||||
| x National Alliance Party of Kenya | Kenya |
The National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAPK) is a political party in Kenya. The National Alliance Party of Kenya was formed on July 3, 2000 when people from varying background decided to form an alliance of democratic forces to work for the social,...
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| x Social Democratic and Labour Party | United Kingdom |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further...
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John Hume | ||
| Alasdair McDonnell | |||||
| Seamus Mallon | |||||
| Mark Durkan | |||||
| Eddie McGrady | |||||
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| x British Columbia Liberal Party |
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Canada |
The British Columbia Liberal Party (also referred to as the BC Liberals) is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with...
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Joyce Murray | |
| John van Dongen | 1995 | ||||
| Michael de Jong | 1994 | ||||
| Dennis MacKay | 2001 | ||||
| Richard Lee | 2001 | ||||
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| x Green Party of British Columbia | Canada |
The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. The party is...
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Jane Sterk | ||
| x New Democratic Party of British Columbia | British Columbia |
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial...
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Dave Barrett | ||
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| Adrian Dix | |||||
| Gregor Robertson | |||||
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| x Australian Greens |
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Australia |
The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is an Australian green political party.
The party was formed in 1992; however, its origins can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania...
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Kerry Nettle | |
| Christine Milne | |||||
| Rachel Siewert | |||||
| Sarah Hanson-Young | |||||
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| x Parti libéral du Québec | Canada |
The Quebec Liberal Party (French: Parti Libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a federalist provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955.
The party has traditionally supported Quebec federalism,...
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Jean Lesage | ||
| Jean Charest | |||||
| Lomer Gouin | |||||
| George Carlyle Marler | |||||
| Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière | |||||
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| x Bloc pot | Canada |
The Bloc Pot is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that is dedicated to ending cannabis prohibition. It has contested three provincial elections but it has failed to win any seats in the National Assembly of Quebec. The party was...
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| x Reform Party of Canada | Canada |
The Reform Party of Canada (French: Parti réformiste du Canada) was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s....
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Margaret Bridgman | ||
| Preston Manning | |||||
| Ed Harper | |||||
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| x United Kingdom Independence Party | United Kingdom |
The UK Independence Party (UKIP, /ˈjuːkɪp/ YEW-kip) is a Eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party was founded on the idea of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union but has since become a multi-issue...
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Nigel Farage | ||
| Bob Spink | |||||
| David Campbell-Bannerman | |||||
| Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch | |||||
| Roger Knapman | |||||
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| x National Peasants' Party | Romania |
The National Peasants' Party (Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc or PNŢ) was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party (Partidul Naţional Român) from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party (Partidul Ţărănesc)...
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Gheorghe Mironescu | ||
| Gavril Dejeu | |||||
| Iuliu Maniu | |||||
| Grigore Gafencu | |||||
| Ştefan Pirogan | |||||
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| x Democratic Unionist Party | Northern Ireland |
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the...
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David Simpson | ||
| Sammy Wilson | |||||
| Jeffrey Donaldson | |||||
| Iris Robinson | |||||
| Peter Robinson | |||||
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| x Ecolo | Belgium |
Ecolo (which officially stands for Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales "Confederated ecologists for the organisation of original struggles", but in reality is a shorthand for "ecology" or "ecologist") is a French-speaking...
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Isabelle Durant | ||
| Josy Dubié | |||||
| Marcel Cheron | |||||
| x Scottish Party |
The Scottish Party was formed in 1930 by a group of members of the Unionist Party who favoured the establishment of a Dominion Scottish Parliament within the British Empire and Commonwealth. They differed with the existing National Party of Scotland...
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| x Scottish Workers Republican Party |
The Scottish Workers Republican Party (SWRP) was formed by the Scottish Marxist activist John Maclean (1879-1923) in the 1910s. It advocated the political doctrine of communism, whilst also supporting Scottish independence. This dual communist...
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| x Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party | Scotland |
The Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party (SSCUP) was formed on 3 February 2003, in time to contest that year's elections to the Scottish Parliament. The leading figure in its formation was John Swinburne, previously a director of Motherwell Football...
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| x Socialist Party USA | United States of America |
The Socialist Party USA (SPUSA) is a multi-tendency democratic-socialist party in the United States. The party states that it is the rightful continuation and successor to the tradition of the Socialist Party of America, which had lasted from 1901...
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Stewart Alexander | ||
| Brian Moore | |||||
| Eric Chester | |||||
| Walt Brown | |||||
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| x Green Party of Ontario |
The Green Party of Ontario (GPO) is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. It has never held any seats in the Ontario Legislative Assembly; however, the party did see significant gains in the 2007 provincial...
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David Chernushenko | |||
| Mike Schreiner | |||||
| Frank de Jong | |||||
| x Socialist Workers Party | United Kingdom |
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities. On the international level, it is part of the International Socialist Tendency.
The SWP...
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| x Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee |
The Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (simplified Chinese: 中国共产党中央委员会书记处; traditional Chinese: 中國共產黨中央委員會書記處; pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Zhōngyāng Wěiyuánhuì Shūjìchù) is the permanent bureaucracy of the Communist...
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| x Green Party of Canada | Canada |
The Green Party of Canada (French: Parti vert du Canada) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core...
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Elizabeth May | ||
| Blair Wilson | |||||
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| x People's Union | Belgium |
People's Union (Dutch: Volksunie, VU) was a Belgian political party, formed in 1954 as a successor to the "Christian Flemish People's Union", an electoral alliance of Flemish nationalists.
The party initially proved successful and had members...
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Bart Staes | ||
| Maurits Coppieters | |||||
| x Puerto Rican Renovation Party |
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The Puerto Rican Renewal Party — or Partido Renovación Puertorriqueña (PRP) in Spanish — was a short-lived Puerto Rican political party founded on August 28, 1983 in Ponce, Puerto Rico The party was disbanded in 1987.
The party's main leader was...
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| x Republican Union Party | Spain |
The Republican Union (Spanish: Unión Republicana) was a Spanish republican party founded in 1934 by Diego Martinez Barrio.
It was formed as a result of a merger of several small republican parties, including notably Diego Martinez Barrio's Radical...
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| x Reform Party of the United States of America | United States of America |
The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA), generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party, is a political party in the United States, founded in 1995 by Ross Perot. Perot said Americans were disillusioned with the state...
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