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Political Parties in USA
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Political parties of the United States traditionally divide the available spectrum of choices into two camps. The first is known the "major parties" and the second as the "third parties" camp. This is due to the fact that in the United States has a two-party system, with the two largest centrist parties dividing the vote between themselves in the national elections. This is partly a consequence of the first-past-the-post election system but also due to restrictive ballot access laws imposed on third parties.
Many third parties throughout U.S. history have achieved regional success and some (notably the Prohibition party and the Socialist Party of America) have had major portions of their platforms incorporated into the "major parties" platforms. While the parties in question did not go on to become one dominant players in American political life, their overall political platforms took root in the American political landscape.
Current major parties
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Current "third" parties
Each of these five parties had ballot status for its presidential candidate in states with enough electoral votes to have a theoretical chance of winning in the last presidential election.
Constitution Party (formerly the U.S. Taxpayers' Party)
Green Party
Libertarian Party
Natural Law Party
Reform Party
Other minor parties that have endorsed candidates
America First Party, formed by former United States Reform Party members in 2002
American Heritage Party
American Independent Party
American Nazi Party
American Party
American Reform Party
Christian Falangist Party of America
Communist Party USA
Constitutional Action Party
Family Values Party
Freedom Socialist Party
Grassroots Party
Greens/Green Party USA
Independent American Party
Labor Party
Light Party
New Party
New Union Party
Peace and Freedom Party
Prohibition Party
The Revolution
Revolutionary Communist Party
Socialist Action
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Labor Party
Socialist Party USA
Socialist Workers Party
Southern Party
Southern Independence Party
U.S. Pacifist Party
We the People Party
Workers World Party
Historical political parties
Pre-Constitution
Anti-Federalist Party
Federalist Party
Pre-Jackson
Democratic-Republican Party (also known as "Anti-Federalist", "Jeffersonian", "Jacksonian" or simply "Republican")
Federalist Party
Jacksonian Era
Anti-Masonic
National Republican
Whig
Civil War
Free Soil
Know-Nothing Party (officially called the American Party)
Liberty Party
Gilded Age
Greenback
Populist
Progressive Era
Fusion Party (primarily in the northern states)
Progressive (including the "Bull Moose" party)
Socialist
20th century
America First Party, whose peak came in 1944 and is not affiliated with the current America First Party
Dixiecrat (also known as States' Rights Democratic)
American Independent Party: the party under Alabama Governor George Wallace in the 1968 and 1972 elections
Citizens Party (1980-1984)
Current and historical regional political parties
Alaskan Independence Party
Farmer-Labor Party
Independence Party of Minnesota
Non-Partisan League (Not a party in the technical sense)
Liberal Party of New York State
Conservative Party of New York State
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Republican Moderate Party (Alaska)
Working Families Party
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