This is a lists of political parties

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 by United Nations geoscheme around the world in the form of a list to the pages for each region. All of the pages linked from here include a table listing the sub-pages of countries/jurisdiction in the given region, showing which party system is dominant in each country.

A political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 is a political

Politics

Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

 organization subscribing to a certain ideology

Ideology

An ideology is a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to...

 or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in election

Election

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...

s. Individual parties are properly listed in separate articles under the page for each nation.

Africa

• List of political parties in Africa by country
• List of political parties in Eastern Africa by country
• List of political parties in Middle Africa by country
• List of political parties in Northern Africa by country
• List of political parties in Southern Africa by country
• List of political parties in Western Africa by country

Americas

• List of political parties in the Caribbean by country
• List of political parties in Central America by country
• List of political parties in North America by country
• List of political parties in South America by country

Asia

• List of political parties in Central Asia by country
• List of political parties in Eastern Asia by country
• List of political parties in Southern Asia by country
• List of political parties in South-Eastern Asia by country
• List of political parties in Western Asia by country

Europe

• List of political parties in Eastern Europe
• List of political parties in Northern Europe
• List of political parties in Southern Europe
• List of political parties in Western Europe

Oceania

• List of political parties in Australia and New Zealand by country
• List of political parties in Melanesia by country
• List of political parties in Micronesia by country
• List of political parties in Polynesia by country

See also

• List of basic political science topics
• List of democracy and elections-related topics
• List of frivolous parties
• List of election results
• List of national leaders

External links

• Political resources on the net
• Leftist Parties of the World - Detailed resource for left-leaning parties (large and small) in each country