Political Parties In America (History)

Major parties

• Democratic Party (1792 historic, 1828 modern)
• Republican Party (1854)

[edit]Minor parties

• Constitution Party (1992)
• Green Party (1996)
• Libertarian Party (1971)

[edit]Micro parties (active)

These parties have offered candidates in recent elections. Some do not have presidential candidates, and only field candidates for Congressional and/or state-level offices.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.

• America First Party (2002)
• American Party (1968)
• America's Independent Party (2008)
• Boston Tea Party (2006)
• Communist Party USA (1919)
• Independence Party of America (2007)
• Moderate Party (2006)
• Modern Whig Party (2008)
• Objectivist Party (2008)
• Party for Socialism and Liberation (2004)
• Peace and Freedom Party (1967)
• Progressive Labor Party (1961)
• Prohibition Party (1869)
• Reform Party of the United States of America (1995)
• Socialist Equality Party (2008)
• Socialist Party USA (1973)
• Socialist Workers Party (1938)
• United States Marijuana Party (2002)
• Unity Party of America (2004)
• Workers Party, USA (2003)
• Workers World Party (1959)
• Working Families Party (1998)

[edit]Micro parties (inactive)

Some of these parties have nominated candidates in the past, but have not done so recently for various reasons. Others have not yet nominated any candidates.

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• American 3rd Party (1990)
• American Conservative Party (2008)
• American Centrist Party (2004)
• American Heritage Party (2000)
• American Nazi Party (revived) (originally 1959)
• American Patriot Party (2003)
• American Populist Party (2009)
• American Reform Party (1997)
• American Third Position Party (2010)
• Center Party of the United States (2009)
• Christian Socialist Party USA (2006)
• Communist Party USA (1919)
• Conservative Party USA (2008)
• Freedom Road Socialist Organization (freedomroad.org) (1985*) (Note: both Freedom Road Socialist Organization factions are the result of a 1999 split in the original party)
• Freedom Road Socialist Organization (frso.org) (1985*)
• Freedom Socialist Party (1966)
• Independent American Party (1998)
• Jefferson Republican Party (2006)
• Labor Party (1995)
• Libertarian National Socialist Green Party (1997)
• National Socialist Movement (1974)
• New American Independent Party (2004)
• New Union Party (1974)
• Pirate Party of the United States (2006)
• Populist Party of America (2002)
• Reformist Party (2008)
• Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (1975)
• Socialist Action (1983)
• Socialist Alternative (1986)
• Socialist Labor Party of America (1876-2008)
• World Socialist Party of the United States (1916)

[edit]Regional parties

These parties are based only in states or certain regions and rarely, if ever, offer candidates for national offices. These are all parties that are unaffiliated with national parties. Each state has official state chapters of the major parties as well as some of the minor parties.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.

[edit]Alaska

• Alaskan Independence Party (1984)
• Republican Moderate Party of Alaska(1986)

[edit]Connecticut

• Connecticut for Lieberman Party (2006)

[edit]Delaware

• Blue Enigma Party (2006)

[edit]Georgia

• Southern Party (2003)

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