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List of political parties in the United States

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Template:Short description Template:Dynamic list Template:Use mdy dates This list of political parties in the United States, both past and present, does not include independents.

Not all states allow the public to access voter registration data. Therefore, voter registration data should not be taken as the correct value and should be viewed as an underestimate.

The abbreviations given come from state ballots used in the most recent elections.<ref name="FEC-2024">Template:Cite web</ref> Not all political parties have abbreviations.

Active parties

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Major parties

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Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology Ballot access Presidential ballot access (2024) Membership
(2024)<ref name="Winger-Nov2024-BAN">Template:Cite web</ref>
Presidential vote (2024) Legislators
(federal and state)
Electoral Popular<ref name="2024 Results">Template:Cite news</ref> Senators
<ref name="U.S. Senate: Party Division">Template:Cite web</ref>
Representatives State
legislators
<ref name="State Partisan Composition">Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Republican Party
(R)
1854 Right-wing Right-wing populismTemplate:Efn
Conservatism
Template:Composition bar + DC Template:Composition bar + DC 37,314,494 Template:Composition bar 77,302,580 (Template:Percentage) Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Democratic Party
(D)
1828 Center-left Template:Nowrap Template:Composition bar + DC Template:Composition bar + DC 45,512,696 Template:Composition bar 75,017,613
(Template:Percentage)
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Third parties

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Represented in state legislatures

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The following third parties have members in state legislatures affiliated with them.

Ballot access in multiple states
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Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology Ballot access Presidential ballot access (2024) Membership
(2024)<ref name="Winger-Nov2024-BAN"/>
Presidential vote (2024) State
legislators
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Forward Party 2022 Center Template:Ubl Template:Composition bar<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> No candidate 1483 No candidate Template:Composition bar
Ballot access in a single state
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Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology Ballot access Membership
(2024)<ref name="Winger-Nov2024-BAN"/>
Presidential vote (2024) State
legislators
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Vermont Progressive Party 1993 Left-wing Template:Nowrap Vermont Unknown No candidate Template:Composition bar

Other parties with ballot access

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The following third parties have ballot access in at least one state and are not represented in a national office or state legislature.<ref name="Ballotpedia Ballot Access"/>

Multi-state
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Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology Ballot access<ref name="Ballotpedia Ballot Access"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Presidential ballot access (2024) Membership
(2024)<ref name="Winger-Nov2024-BAN"/>
Presidential vote (2024)<ref name="2024 Results"/>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Libertarian Party
(LIB)
1971<ref name="David Nolan, 66, Is Dead; Started Libertarian Party">Template:Cite web</ref> Libertarianism<ref name="5 things the Libertarian Party stands for">Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Composition bar<ref name="LP ballot access">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Reason 9/15/22">Template:Cite news</ref> Template:Composition bar 722,761 646,123 (Template:Percentage)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Green Party
(GRE)
2001<ref name="Green Party Founding">Template:Cite web</ref> Left-wing Green politics
Eco-socialism
Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar 246,994 813,066 (Template:Percentage)
No Labels 2010 Center Centrism Template:Composition bar No candidate 150,104 No candidate
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Constitution Party
(CON)
1992<ref name="Want to support a third party? Here are your options"/> Far-right Paleoconservatism
Christian nationalism
Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar 150,949 54,053 (Template:Percentage)Template:Efn
Working Families Party
(WF)
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Left-wing Social democracy<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Progressivism
Template:Composition bar No candidate 59,109 No candidate
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Party for Socialism and Liberation
(PSL)
2004<ref name="Want to support a third party? Here are your options">Template:Cite web</ref> Far-left Marxism–Leninism<ref name="No separate destiny for US workers apart from the workers of the world">Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Needs independent confirmation Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar 2,582 154,538 (Template:Percentage)Template:Refn
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Alliance Party 2019<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Center Centrism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar + DCTemplate:Refn Unknown 754,980 (Template:Percentage)Template:Refn
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Natural Law Party
(NLP)
1992 Transcendental Meditation<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar + DCTemplate:Refn 6,319 754,980 (Template:Percentage)Template:Refn
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Solidarity Party
(ASP)
2011<ref name="The American Solidarity Party Charts Its Own Path"/> Syncretic
Fiscal: Center-left
Social: Center-right
Christian democracy<ref name="The American Solidarity Party Charts Its Own Path">Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar 2,070 32,654 (Template:Percentage)
Single-state
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Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology MembershipTemplate:Efn Presidential vote (2024)<ref name="2024 Results"/> Ballot access<ref name="Ballotpedia Ballot Access"/>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Independent Party 1967 Far-right Paleoconservatism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 861,468 754,980 (Template:Percentage)Template:Refn California
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Liberal Party 2022 Center Classical liberalism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 15,940 859 (Template:Percentage) New Mexico
Working Class Party 2016 Left-wing Socialism<ref name="Perkins 2023">Template:Cite web</ref>
Progressivism<ref name="Perkins 2023"/>
Unknown No candidate Michigan
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Party of Oregon 2007 Center Centrism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 146,899 No candidate Oregon
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Peace and Freedom Party 1967 Left-wing Socialism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 142,311 154,538 (Template:Percentage)Template:Refn California
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Approval Voting Party 2016 Electoral reform<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 4,846 2,196 (Template:Percentage) Colorado
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Colorado Center Party 2022<ref name="coloradopolitics"/> Center Centrism 2,375 Colorado<ref name="coloradopolitics">Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Conservative Party of New York State 1962 Right-wing Conservatism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 154,128 New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Party of Louisiana 2016 Center Centrism 147,941 Louisiana
United Kansas 2024 Center Centrism 131 Kansas
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Oregon Progressive Party 2007 Left-wing Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 3,818 Oregon
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party 1970 Left-wing Democratic socialism<ref name="Is socialism now acceptable in the US?">Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown Vermont
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Alaskan Independence Party 1978<ref name="Sarah Palin's ties to Alaskan Independence Party are played down">Template:Cite web</ref> Center-right to right-wing Alaskan nationalism<ref name="American Separatists Are Thrilled About Scotland And Think It Will Lead To A 'Paradigm Shift'">Template:Cite web</ref> 19,080 Alaska
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Party of Delaware 2000 Center-right Fiscal conservatism
Laissez-faire
Environmentalism
11,280 Delaware
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| United Utah Party 2017 Center Centrism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 2,435 Utah
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent American Party 1993 Far-right Ultraconservatism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 91,822 Utah
Ecology Party of Florida 2008<ref name="Ecology">Template:Cite news</ref> Environmentalism 3,264 Florida
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Party of Florida 1993 Centrism 276,467 Florida
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Aloha ʻĀina Party 2015 Hawaiian sovereignty<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown Hawaii
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| United Citizens Party 1969 Center-left to left-wing Progressivism
Black nationalism
Unknown South Carolina
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Legal Marijuana Now Party 1998 Marijuana legalization<ref name="Q and A with Legal Marijuana Now">Template:Cite web</ref> 8,151 Nebraska
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Reform Party 1995 Center Radical centrism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 2,879 754,980 (Template:Percentage)Template:Refn Florida
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Unity Party 2004 Center Centrism<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref> 3,159 ColoradoTemplate:Efn
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| South Carolina Workers Party 2023 Left-wing Laborism Unknown South Carolina

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Active parties without ballot access

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The following parties have been active in the past 4 years, but as of December 2021, did not have official ballot access in any state.<ref name="Ballotpedia Ballot Access">Template:Cite web</ref>

Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology Membership<ref name="Winger-March2021-BAN">Template:Cite web</ref> Presidential vote (2024)<ref name="2024 Results"/>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Socialist Workers Party 1938 Far-left Communism
Fidelismo
789 4,118 (Template:Percentage)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Prohibition Party 1869 Syncretic
Social: Center-right
Fiscal: Center-left
Temperance
Christian democracy
Social conservatism
19 1,144 (Template:Percentage)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Socialist Equality Party 1966 Far-left Trotskyism
Communism
Revolutionary socialism
Unknown 4,638 (Template:Percentage)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Socialist Party USA 1973<ref name="Want to support a third party? Here are your options"/> Left-wing Socialism
Anti-capitalism
Eco-socialism
Socialist feminism
9,504 361 (Template:Percentage)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| United States Pirate Party 2006 Syncretic Pirate politics
Civil libertarianism
Direct democracy
Unknown 914 (Template:Percentage)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Communist Party USA 1919 Far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Bill of Rights socialism
Unknown
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Communist Party 2024 Syncretic Marxism-Leninism
MAGA Communism
American–Canadian unionism
Unknown
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Progressive Labor Party 1962 Far-left Anti-revisionism
Stalinism
Unknown
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Socialist Alternative 1986 Far-left Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism
Unknown
Workers World Party 1959 Far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-Imperialism
Unknown
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Freedom Socialist Party 1966 Far-left Trotskyism
Revolutionary socialism
Socialist feminism
Unknown
American Freedom Party 2009<ref name="American Freedom Party">Template:Cite web</ref> Far-right American nationalism
Paleoconservatism
Right-wing populism
White nationalism
Anti-immigration
Unknown
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Socialist Action 1983 Far-left Trotskyism<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Transhumanist Party 2014 Libertarian transhumanism
Extropianism
Technogaianism
Unknown
Single-state
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Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology Membership (2024)<ref name="Winger-Nov2024-BAN"/> Presidential vote (2024)<ref name="2024 Results"/> Year lost access Seeking access Ballot access
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Common Sense Party of California 2019 Center Centrism 19,198 Never had California
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Green Party of Alaska 1990 Left-wing Green politics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1,522 3,284 (0.002%) As of May 2022<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Alaska
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| California National Party 2015 Center-left Californian nationalism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Social democracy
Unknown California
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| California Freedom Coalition 2017 Big tent Californian secessionism Unknown California
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Grassroots–Legalize Cannabis Party 2014 Left-wing Marijuana legalization<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown 2022<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Minnesota
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Liberal Party of New York 1944 Center-left Liberalism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown 2002 New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Moderate Party of Rhode Island 2007 Center Centrism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown 2018 Rhode Island
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Green Party of Rhode Island 1992 Left-wing Green politics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown Rhode Island
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Greens of Virginia 2005 Center-right Green conservatism<ref name="IGoV">Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown Virginia
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Washington Progressive Party 2002 Left-wing Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Unknown Washington
Progressive Dane 1992 Left-wing Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Unknown Wisconsin
Moderate Party 2022 Center Centrism<ref name="nytimes">Template:Cite news</ref> Unknown Never had As of June 2022 New Jersey

Major parties in Puerto Rico

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The following parties are represented in the Puerto Rican Legislature.Template:Main

Party Year
founded
Political position Ideology President Gubernatorial vote<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Senators<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref> Representatives<ref name=":1"/> Mayors<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| New Progressive Party
Partido Nuevo Progresista
1967<ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref> Center to center-right Puerto Rico statehood Pedro Pierluisi 427,016 (33.24%) Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Popular Democratic Party
Partido Popular Democrático
1938<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Center Pro-Commonwealth
Centrism
Jesús Manuel Ortiz 407,817 (31.75%) Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Citizens' Victory Movement
Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana
2019 Left-wing Anti-imperialism
Anti-neoliberalism
Progressivism
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén 179,265 (13.95%) Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Puerto Rican Independence Party
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
1946<ref name=":2"/> Center-left Puerto Rico independence
Social democracy
Rubén Berríos 175,402 (13.58%) Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Project Dignity
Proyecto Dignidad
2019 Center-right to right-wing Christian democracy
Anti-corruption
César Váquez Muñiz 87,379 (6.80%) Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar

Historical parties

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Held national office or elected to Congress

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Party Created Disbanded Years in national office Ideology Other names Mergers/Splits
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Federalist Party 1789 1824 1789–1825 Classical conservatism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Anti-Administration party 1789 1792 1789–1792 Anti-Federalism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Democratic-Republican Party in 1792
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Democratic-Republican Party 1792 1825 1792–1825 Jeffersonianism<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Republican Party, Democratic Party Split into: Democratic Party and National Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Republican Party 1825 1837 1825–1837 Classical conservatism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Anti-Jacksonian Party, Adams-Clay Republicans Merged into: Whig Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Anti-Masonic Party 1828 1838 1829–1839 Anti-Masonry<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Merged into: Whig Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Nullifier Party 1828 1839 1831–1839 Nullification<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Whig Party 1833 1854 1837–1857 Traditionalist conservatism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Law and Order Party of Rhode Island 1840 1848 1843–1845 Anti-Dorr Rebellion<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Charterites Merged into: Whig Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Liberty Party 1840 1848 1845–1849 Abolitionism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Free Soil Party and Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Know Nothing Party 1844 1860 1845–1860 Nativism<ref name="Boissoneault">Template:Cite web</ref> Merged into: Constitutional Union Party (South) and Republican Party (North)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Free Soil Party 1848 1855 1849–1857 Abolitionism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Union Party 1850 1853 1851–1853 Conditional unionism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Opposition Party (Northern) 1854 1858 1855–1857 Abolitionism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Opposition Party (Southern) 1858 1860 1859–1860 Pro-slavery<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Constitutional Union Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Constitutional Union Party 1860 1860 1860 Southern unionism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Unionist Party Merged into: Unconditional Union Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Unconditional Union Party 1861 1866 1860–1866 American unionism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Union Party Merged into: National Union Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Liberal Republican Party 1871 1875 1871–1875 Classical liberalism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Republican Party and Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Anti-Monopoly Party 1874 1886 1873–1881 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Merged into: People's Party (1892)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Greenback Party 1874 1884 1879–1889 Currency reform<ref>Paul Kleppner, The Greenback and Prohibition Parties," in Arthur M. Schlesinger (ed.), History of U.S. Political Parties: Volume II, 1860-1910, The Gilded Age of Politics. New York: Chelsea House/R.R. Bowker Co., 1973; pg. 1552.</ref> Merged into: People's Party (1892)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Readjuster Party 1870 1885 1881–1889 Left-wing populism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Labor Party 1887–1891
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| People's Party (1892) 1892 1908 1892–1903 Populism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Populist Party Merged into: Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Silver Party 1892 1902 1893–1902 Bimetalism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Merged into: Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Silver Republican Party 1896 1900 1897–1900 Bimetalism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Socialist Party of America 1901 1972 1911–1913
1915–1919
1921–1929
Democratic socialism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Splinter parties: Nonpartisan League (1915)
National Party (1917)
Communist Party USA (1919)
Proletarian Party of America (1920)
American Labor Party (1936)
Social Democratic Federation (1936)
Final split: (1972–1973) Socialist Party USA, Social Democrats, USA, and Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Progressive Party (1912) 1912 1920 1913–1919 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Bull Moose Party Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Farmer–Labor Party 1920 1936 1919–1921
1923–1945
Social democracy<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Merged into: Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Wisconsin Progressive Party 1934 1946 1935–1946 Wisconsin Idea Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Progressives of America 1938 1946 1938–1946 Progressivism Non-interventionism Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Labor Party (1936) 1936 1956 1939–1951 Social democracy<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Nonpartisan League 1915 1956 1917–1959 Democratic socialism Agrarianism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> NPL Merged into: North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Multi-state political parties

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Party Created Disbanded Ideology Other names Mergers/Splits
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Republican Party (1843) 1843 1845 Nativism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: American Party (1844)
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Democratic-Republican Party (1844) 1844 1844 Texas annexation<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Merged into: Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Southern Rights Party 1850 1854 Split into: Democratic Party and Whig Party

Merged into: Democratic Party

style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Union Party 1864 1868 American unionism<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Union Party Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Radical Democracy Party 1864 1864 Abolitionism<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Merged into: Republican Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Socialist Labor Party of America 1876 2011 De Leonism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Workingmen's Party of the United States
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Democratic Party 1896 1900 Gold standard<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Gold Democrats Split into: Democratic Party

Merged into: Democratic Party

style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Social Democracy of America 1897 1900 Utopian socialism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Social Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| United Christian Party 1897 1928 Theocracy

Christian conservatism Direct democracy

style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Social Democratic Party 1898 1901 Democratic socialism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Merged into: Socialist Party of America
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independence Party 1906 1914 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Independence League
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Single Tax Party 1910 1920s Georgism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Land Value Tax Party, Commonwealth Land Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Woman's Party 1913 1930 Feminism
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Nonpartisan League 1915 1956 Agrarianism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Splits from: Socialist Party of America
Merged into: North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Party 1917 1919 Social democracy
Progressivism
Pro-war patriotism
Splits from: Socialist Party of America
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Labor Party of the United States 1919 1920 Social democracy<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Farmer–Labor Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Proletarian Party of America 1920 1971 Communism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Splits from: Socialist Party of America
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Workers Party of America 1921 1929 Marxism–Leninism Communist Party USA
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Party (1924) 1924 1924 Nativism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Progressive Party (1924) 1924 1924 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Merged into: Wisconsin Progressive Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Communist League of America 1928 1934 Trotskyism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Split from: Communist Party USA
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Labor Party (1932) 1932 1935 De Leonism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Split from: Industrial Union Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Industrial Union Party 1933 1950 De Leonism Split from: Socialist Labor Party of America
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Workers Party 1933 1934 Trotskyism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Workers Party of the United States
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Workers Party of the United States 1934 1938 Trotskyism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Merged into: Socialist Party of America
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Union Party 1935 1936 Distributism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| America First Party (1943) 1944 1947 Isolationism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Vegetarian Party 1947 1967
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| States' Rights Democratic Party 1948 1948 Segregationism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Dixiecrats Split from: Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Progressive Party (1948) 1948 1955 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Split from: Democratic Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Constitution Party (1952) 1952 1970s Paleoconservatism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Christian Nationalist Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National States' Rights Party 1958 1987 Neo-fascism
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Party (1969) 1969 2008 Paleoconservatism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Raza Unida Party 1970 2012 Chicanismo<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| People's Party (1971) 1971 1976 Democratic socialism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| U.S. Labor Party 1975 1979 LaRouchism<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Citizens Party 1979 1984 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| New Alliance Party 1979 1992 Left-wing populism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Populist Party (1984) 1984 1996 White nationalism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Grassroots Party 1986 2012 Marijuana legalization
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Greens/Green Party USA 1991 2019 Ecopolitics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Green Committees of Correspondence
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Labor Party 1996 2007 Social democracy<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Southern Party 1999 2003 Southern nationalism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Boston Tea Party 2006 2012 Libertarianism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independence Party of America 2007 2013 Centrism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Modern Whig Party 2008<ref name="ModernWhigParty-Ballotpedia"/> 2019<ref name="ModernWhigParty-Ballotpedia"/> Conservative liberalism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Merged into: Alliance Party<ref name="ModernWhigParty-Ballotpedia">Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| U.S. Marijuana Party 2002 2016? Cannabis legalisation

Civil libertarianism

style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Rent Is Too Damn High Party 2005 2015 Populism

Social welfare Anti-tax Anti-high rent

style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Justice Party 2011 2024 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Serve America Movement 2017 2022 Big tent<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Merged into: Forward Party<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Single-state political parties

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Party Created Disbanded Ideology Other names Mergers/Splits State
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Toleration Party 1816 1828 Secularism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> American Party Merged into: Democratic Party Connecticut
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Working Men's Party 1829 1831 Owenism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Merged into: Locofoco faction of the Democratic Party New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Anti-Mormon Party 1841 1844 Illinois
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Anti-Mormon Party of Oneida County 1870s 1880s Idaho
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| People's Party 1870 1891 Mormonism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Utah
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Liberal Party 1870 1893 Anti-clericalism<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref> Utah
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Reform Party 1874 1874 Illinois
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Party 1884 1884 Florida
Home Rule Party of Hawaii 1900 1912 Hawaiian nationalism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Republican Party Hawaii
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Party (1904) 1904 1911 Utah
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Party (1914) 1914 1916 Split from: Democratic Party New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party 1918 1944 Populism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party Minnesota
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Progressive Democratic Party 1944 1948 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Split from: Democratic Party South Carolina
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Women's Equality Party 2014 2018 Feminism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 1964 1964 Desegregation<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Merged into: Democratic Party Mississippi
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Third Party for America 1966 1968 Alabama
Choctaw Youth Movement 1969 1975 Choctaw nationalism Oklahoma
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Labor–Farm Party of Wisconsin 1982 1987 Left-wing populism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Wisconsin
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Illinois Solidarity Party 1986 2007 Anti-LaRouchism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Split from: Democratic Party Illinois
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Republican Moderate Party of Alaska 1986 2011 Centrism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Alaska
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| A Connecticut Party 1990 1998 Liberalism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Split from: Republican Party Connecticut
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independence Party of New York 1991 2022 Centrism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| New Jersey Conservative Party 1992 2009 Conservatism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> New Jersey
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independent Grassroots Party 1996 1998 Marijuana legalization Split from: Grassroots Party Minnesota
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Marijuana Reform Party 1998 2002 Marijuana legalization<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Independence Party of Florida 1999 2017 Florida
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Personal Choice Party 2004 2006 Libertarianism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Utah
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Florida Whig Party 2006 2012 Fiscal Conservatism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Florida
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Connecticut for Lieberman 2006 2013 Centrism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Split from: Democratic Party Connecticut
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Taxpayers Party of New York 2010 2011 Conservatism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Freedom Party of New York 2010 2011 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> New York
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| United Independent Party 2014 2017 Liberalism<ref name="Tyler">Template:Cite news</ref> Massachusetts
Bread and Roses Party 2018 2021 Socialism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Maryland
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Libertarian Party of Virginia 1974 2022<ref name="Reason 9/15/22"/> Libertarianism<ref name="5 things the Libertarian Party stands for"/> Virginia
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Tea Party of Nevada 2010 2010 Tea Party movement Split from: Republican Party Nevada
People's Party 2017 2025 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Florida

Political parties in the unincorporated territories

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Party Created Disbanded Ideology Other names Mergers/Splits Territory
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Puerto Rican Nationalist Party 1922 1965 Puerto Rican nationalism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Puerto Rico
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Puerto Rican Socialist Party 1959 1993 Puerto Rican nationalism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Puerto Rico
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Covenant Party 2001 2013<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Populism Merged into: Republican Party Northern Mariana Islands
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Working People's Party 2010 2016 Template:Lang Puerto Rico
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Popular Party (Guam) 1949 1964 Commercial Party Merged into: Democratic Party Guam
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Territorial Party (Guam) 1956 1966 Merged into: Republican Party Guam
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Popular Party (Northern Mariana Islands)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":CNMIP">Template:Cite journal</ref> 1978 Merged into: Democratic Party Northern Mariana Islands
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Territorial Party (Northern Mariana Islands)<ref name=":CNMIP"/> Merged into: Republican Party Northern Mariana Islands

Non-electoral organizations

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Active

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Political party Year founded Former names Ideology Mergers/Splits International affiliations
African People's Socialist Party 1972 Merger of: Junta of Militant Organizations
Black Rights Fighters
Black Study Group
Uhuru Movement
American Indian Movement 1968 Pan-Indianism
Black Hammer Party 2019 Black nationalism
Black separatism
Black conservatism
Pan-Africanism
Trumpism
Garveyism
Afrocentrism
Anti-colonialism
Anti-liberalism
Anti-communism
Anti-Zionism
Vaccine hesitancy
Russophilia
Sakaism
Black Riders Liberation Party 1996<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Charter Committee 1924
Christian Liberty Party 2000
Citizens Party of the United States 2004
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism 1991
Clan na Gael 1867 Irish republicanism
Irish nationalism
Irish-American Interests
Successor to the Fenian Brotherhood IRB (until 1924)
Irish Volunteers (until 1918)
IRA (until 1969)
Provisional IRA (until 2005)
Democratic Socialists of America 1982 Democratic socialism
Multi-tendency
Merger of: DSOC, New American Movement FSP, Progressive International
Freedom Road Socialist Organization 1985 ICS
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America 1984 Marxism–Leninism
Irish republicanism
Left-wing nationalism
Revolutionary socialism
Irish-American Interests
IRSP
National Justice Party 2020 White nationalism
National Labor Federation 1972 Communism
National Socialist Movement 1974 Neo-Nazism
Neo-fascism
White supremacy
Anti-globalism
WUNS
New Afrikan Black Panther Party 2005
New Black Panther Party 1989
New York State Right to Life 1970
News and Letters CommitteesTemplate:Citation needed 1955
No Labels 2010
Patriot Front 2017 Neo-fascism
American nationalism
Revolutionary Black Panther Party 1992
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA 1975 Revolutionary Union Maoism
Social Democrats, USA 1972
Spartacist League/U.S.Template:Citation needed 1966 ICL(FI)
World Socialist Party of the United States 1916 Socialist Party of the United States
Socialist Educational Society
Workers' Socialist Party
Socialism
Syndicalism
Anti-Leninism
Communism
Classical Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Impossibilism
Split from: Socialist Party of America WSM

Historical

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Party Created Disbanded Ideology Other names Mergers/Splits
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Renaissance Party 1949 1981 Neo-Nazism
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| American Nazi Party 1959 1983 Neo-Nazism World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists, National Socialist White People's Party, New Order (successor organization) Split into: National Socialist Party of America, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, and New Order.
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Patriot Party 1960 1980 Socialism<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Split from: Young Patriots Organization
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Black Panther Party 1966 1982 Black nationalism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Youth International Party 1967 1967 Anarcho-socialism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Yippies
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Marxist–Leninist Party, USA 1967 1993 Marxism–Leninism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Red Guard Party 1969 1973 Maoism
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Communist Workers Party 1969 1985 Maoism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Socialist Party of America 1970 1981 Neo-Nazism Split from: American Nazi Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Amerindianist American Redman's Party 1972 1976 Third Worldism, Socialism
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| National Alliance 1974 2013 Neo-Nazism Split from: American Nazi Party
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| New Union Party 1974 2005 De Leonism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| International Socialist Organization 1977 2019 Trotskyism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| White Patriot Party 1980 1987 White supremacy Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| New Party 1992 1998 Progressivism<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
style="background-color:Template:Party color"| Traditionalist Worker Party 2013 2018 Neo-Nazism<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Party registration

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Officially recognized parties in states are not guaranteed have ballot access, membership numbers of some parties with ballot access are not tracked, and vice versa. Not all of these parties are active, and not all states record voter registration by party. Boxes in gray mean that the specific party's registration is not reported.

Political party registration by state
State/DC As of DEM REP LIB GRN CST NLB RFM WFP Others Unaffiliated Total
Alaska April 3, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 73,637 143,100 6,654 776 21,232Template:Efn Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|346,110 591,509
Arizona April 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1,192,205 Template:Party shading/Republican|1,434,982 31,164 2,796 27,539 Template:Align 4,058,320
Arkansas May 3, 2024<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 86,231 131,647 700 104 1 Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|1,543,863 1,762,546
California February 20, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|10,285,108 5,388,479 240,618 102,659 271 42,039 1,195,512Template:Efn 4,822,647 22,077,333
Colorado May 1, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1,006,438 903,079 37,315 8,280 11,245 7,969 9,413Template:Efn Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|1,850,286 3,834,112
Connecticut May 16, 2024<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 798,205 466,908 2,996 1,350 298 29,155Template:Efn Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|919,524 2,218,436
Delaware May 1, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|350,955 205,909 2,028 718 238 1,768 47 314 15,130Template:Efn 197,529 774,636
Washington, D.C. August 2022<ref name="Winger-August2022-BAN">Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|379,489 26,567 2,290 3,855 82,556 494,757
Florida February 20, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 4,363,490 Template:Party shading/Republican|5,214,907 35,445 7,712 14,833 7,498 266,493Template:Efn 3,539,382 13,449,760
Idaho August 2022<ref name="Winger-August2022-BAN"/> 129,550 Template:Party shading/Republican|577,507 11,147 4,036 275,271 997,511
Iowa November 1, 2022<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 597,120 Template:Party shading/Republican|681,871 12,100 2,966 555,988 1,850,045
Kansas April 30, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 503,972 Template:Party shading/Republican|874,132 24,151 39 563,482 1,965,776
Kentucky April 15, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1,511,242 Template:Party shading/Republican|1,615,451 16,391 2,403 1,376 209 190,063Template:Efn 153,870 3,491,005
Louisiana November 7, 2023<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|1,133,813 1,021,571 15,839 2,583 154 2,296 823 130,273Template:Efn 665,154 2,979,345
Maine March 5, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|341,925 281,904 5,236 36,724 9,677 275,560 951,026
Maryland March 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|2,208,095 994,529 18,836 234 54,299 909,180 4,185,173
Massachusetts May 3, 2024<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 1,336,825 415,438 3,599 292 113 722 36,484Template:Efn Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|3,132,433 4,925,906
Nebraska May 1, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 330,657 Template:Party shading/Republican|605,466 18,036 6,684Template:Efn 271,568 1,232,411
Nevada May 1, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 708,432 654,182 20,967 48,105 Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|794,532 2,329,718
New Hampshire March 29, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 260,281 304,375 Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|325,930 890,586
New Jersey June 1, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|2,496,054 1,563,771 25,174 11,498 12,989 1,550 28,084Template:Efn 2,422,574 6,561,694
New Mexico April 30, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|577,692 415,653 27,443Template:Efn 315,390 1,336,178
New York February 27, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|6,404,069 2,903,144 54,678 572,778Template:Efn 3,173,678 13,108,347
North Carolina May 1, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2,404,692 2,234,315 50,119 2,056 0 (New) 7,752 Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|2,743,054 7,441,988
Oklahoma April 30, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 649,432 Template:Party shading/Republican|1,214,774 22,365 449,488 2,336,059
Oregon August 2022<ref name="Winger-August2022-BAN"/> 1,014,041 730,765 20,865 7,820 8,364 141,185Template:Efn Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|1,031,392 2,958,277
Pennsylvania April 29, 2024<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:Party shading/Democratic|3,895,223 3,499,524 42,919 10,326 1,273,199 8,721,191
Rhode Island May 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 281,725 103,268 Template:Party shading/Independent (US)|338,629 723,622
South Dakota May 1, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 144,243 Template:Party shading/Republican|303,722 2,923 22 945 149,935 601,790
Utah June 3, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 275,698 Template:Party shading/Republican|991,894 26,411 74 8,497 2,353 88,837Template:Efn 574,734 1,968,498
West Virginia May 4, 2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 358,056 Template:Party shading/Republican|477,549 10,800 2,542 39,412 292,963 1,181,322
Wyoming May 4, 2024<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 23,787 Template:Party shading/Republican|178,387 1,057 343 13 15,875 219,462

Parties by number of registered voters

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