Liste der Parteien im Vereinigten Königreich

Vor der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde die britische Politik von den Whigs und den Tories dominiert. Sie waren keine politischen Parteien im heutigen Sinne, sondern vielmehr lose Allianzen von Interessengruppen und Einzelpersonen. Die Whigs identifizierten sich mit der neuen aufstrebenden Industrie, während die Tories dem Adel und der anglikanischen Kirche nahestanden.

Mit der Zeit wurden die Whigs zur Liberal Party, die Tories zur Conservative Party. Diese zwei Parteien dominierten die Politik bis in die 1920er, als die Liberal Party einen markanten Bedeutungsverlust hinnehmen musste und viele Mitglieder aus der Partei austraten. Die Rolle als Hauptkonkurrentin der Konservativen nahm nun die Labour Party ein, eine Allianz zwischen Gewerkschaften und verschiedenen sozialistischen Gruppen.

Bis heute dominieren die Konservativen und Labour die britische Politik und lösten sich gegenseitig in der Regierung ab. In letzter Zeit haben sich die aus der Liberal Party entstandenen Liberal Democrats als dritte Kraft mit einem Wähleranteil von rund 20 % etabliert und ihre Wahlresultate markant verbessert. Aufgrund des Mehrheitswahlrechts werden kleinere Parteien stark benachteiligt. Die im Unterhaus vertretenen Kleinparteien haben eine starke regionale Verankerung.

Parteien im Unterhaus

Alba Party
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Conservative Party
Democratic Unionist Party
Green Party of England and Wales
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
Plaid Cymru
Scottish National Party
Sinn Féin (gewählte Abgeordnete nehmen Mandate nicht an)
Social Democratic and Labour Party

Parteien im schottischen Parlament

Parteien im walisischen Parlament

Parteien im nordirischen Parlament (Northern Ireland Assembly)

Parteien der London-Versammlung (London Assembly)

London Conservatives – Regionalpartei der Conservative Party
London Green Party – Regionalpartei der Green Party of England and Wales
London Labour Party – Regionalpartei der Labour Party
London Liberal Democrats – Regionalpartei der English Liberal Democrats

Sonstige Parteien

Sonstige britische Parteien

4 Freedoms Party (UK EPP)
Animal Welfare Party
Christian Democratic Party
Christian Party
Christian Peoples Alliance
Free Speech Union
Humanist Party
Independence from Europe
Independent Community and Health Concern
Liberal Party (Neugründung der alten Liberal Party, nicht mit den Liberal Democrats verbunden)
Libertarian Party
No Candidate Deserves My Vote!
One Love Party
Peace Party
Populist Party
Reform UK (bis 1/2021 Brexit Party)
Social Democratic Party
Something New
The Common Good
UK Independence Party
UK Veterans' and People's Party
Volt UK
Whig Party
Women's Equality Party
Young People's Party UK

Linke Parteien

Alliance for Green Socialism
Communist League
Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
Independent Working Class Association
International Socialist League
Left Unity
New Communist Party of Britain
Revolutionary Communist Group
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Labour Party
Socialist Party of England and Wales
Socialist Party of Great Britain
Socialist Resistance (Teil von Left Unity)
Socialist Workers Party
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Workers Revolutionary Party

Regionale Parteien

England

Barnsley Independent Group
Community
Community Action Party
Community Group
Cornish Nationalist Party – sezessionistische Partei in Cornwall
Democratic Independent Group
Derwentside Independents
Devizes Guardians
East Devon Alliance
English Democrats – englische Föderalisten
English Liberal Democrats
Guildford Greenbelt Group
Heald Green Ratepayers – Kleinstpartei mit Ratssitzen in Stockport
Henley Residents Group
Idle Toad
Independents for Frome
Isle of Wight Party
Lewisham People Before Profit
Lincolnshire Independents
Mebyon Kernow – sezessionistische Partei in Cornwall
Middlewich First
Morecambe Bay Independents
National Health Action Party
North East Party
People's Democratic Party
Putting Hartlepool First
Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell – lokale Partei mit der Mehrheit im Bezirksrat von Epsom and Ewell
Residents for Uttlesford
Roman Party
The Republic Party
Wessex Regionalist Party – Regionalpartei in Wessex
Yorkshire and the Humber Labour Party
Yorkshire Party

Schottland

Abolish the Scottish Parliament Party
British Union & Sovereignty Party
Clannasaor – für schottische Unabhängigkeit
Independent Green Voice
Red Party of Scotland
Restore Scotland
Rubbish Party
Scotia Future
Scottish Christian Party
Scottish Family Party
Scottish Libertarian Party
Scottish Socialist Party
Scottish Unionist Party
Socialist Party Scotland
West Dunbartonshire Community Party

Wales

Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party
Communist Party of Wales
Gwlad
Llais Gwynedd
Propel
Socialist Party Wales
Wales Green Party
Welsh Christian Party

Nordirland

Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance
Cross-Community Labour Alternative
Fianna Fáil
Green Party in Northern Ireland
Labour Party in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Conservatives
Northern Ireland Liberal Democrats
Progressive Unionist Party
Republican Sinn Féin
Socialist Party (Irland) – Partei ist auch in Nordirland vertreten
Workers’ Party – Abspaltung von Sinn Féin

Extreme Rechte

Britain First
Britannica Party
British Democratic Party
British National Party
National Front
Liberty Great Britain
National Liberal Party

Spaßparteien

Al-Zebabist Nation of Ooog
Church of the Militant Elvis Party
Fancy Dress Party
Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Stuckist Party

Religiöse Parteien

Christian Democratic Party
Christian Party
Christian Peoples Alliance
The Common Good

Nicht-registrierte und aufgelöste Parteien

Sonstige Parteien

Liberal Party (1859–1988)
Liberal Unionist Party (1886–1912)
Socialist National Defence League (1910er)
Women's Party (1917–1919)
National Democratic and Labour Party (1918–1923)
National Liberal Party (1922–1923)
National Liberal Party (1931–1968)
New Party (1931–1932)
Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1931–1951; 1965–1978)
Fellowship Party (1955–2007)
Democratic Labour (1972–1979)
Campaign for Social Democracy (1973–1974)
Green Party (UK)
Social Democratic Alliance (1975–1981)
Social Democratic Party (1981–1990)
Natural Law Party (1992–2004)
People's Justice Party (1998–2006)
Democratic Party (1998–2010)
Legalise Cannabis Alliance (1999–2006) – Legalisierung von Cannabis
Countryside Party (2000–2008)
The New Party (2003–2010)
Make Politicians History (2005–2009)
Science Party
Trust (2010–2011)
Above and Beyond Party (2015–2016)
Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol (2015–2016)
Change UK – The Independent Group (2/2019–12/2019)
Pirate Party UK (2009–2020)
Renew Britain (2017–2022)

Linke Parteien

Social Democratic Federation (1884–1911)
Socialist League (1886–1903)
Independent Labour Party (1893–1975)
Socialist Labour Party (1903) (1903–1980)
British Socialist Party (1911–1920)
Workers Socialist Federation (1914–1921)
National Socialist Party (1916–1919)
Communist Party of Great Britain (1920–1991)
Workers International League (1937–1944)
Revolutionary Socialist League (1938–1944)
Common Wealth Party (1941–1945)
Revolutionary Communist Party (1944–1950)
Revolutionary Workers Party (1962–1990er)
International Marxist Group (1968–1981)
Revolutionary Communist League of Britain (1968–1998)
Revolutionary Marxist–Leninist League (1968–1980)
Working People's Party of England (1968–1986)
Communist Workers League of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) (1969–1981)
Revolutionary Communist League (1970–ca. 1973)
British and Irish Communist Organisation (1971–ca. 1986)
Labour Party of Scotland (1973)
Communist Organisation in the British Isles (1974–ca. 1977)
Workers Power (1974–2015)
Communist League of Great Britain (1975–ca. 2001)
League for Socialist Action (1976–1982)
Revolutionary Communist Party (1978–1997)
International Leninist Workers Party (1979–2006)
Red Action (1981–2001)
Workers' Internationalist League (1983–1984)
Communist Forum (1986–1987)
International Socialist Group (1987–2009)
Marxist Party (1987–2004)
Workers' International League (1987–2006)
Movement for a Socialist Future (1990–2005)
Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International
Democratic Left (1991–1993)
Alliance for Workers' Liberty (war ein Teil von Left Unity) (1992–2015)
Socialist Alliance (1994–2005)
Socialist People's Party (1995–2015)
Democratic Labour Party (1998–2016)
Red Party (2004–2005)
United Socialist Party (2004–2010?)
Peace and Progress Party (2004–2015)
Respect – The Unity Coalition (2004–2016)
Permanent Revolution (2006–2013)
Left Alternative (2008–2010)
No2EU (2009–2014)
Class War (2014–2015)
Reality Party (2014–2016)

Regionale Parteien

England

Boston Bypass Independents
Corrective Party (1988–1990er)
Free England Party (2008–2009)
Liverpool Protestant Party
New England Party (2005–2007, fusionierte mit den English Democrats)
Northern Party (2015–2016)
One London (November 2005 – November 2008)
Pensioners Party (England) (2004–2013)
Vectis National Party (1970er) – Isle of Wight Regionalpartei

Schottland

All for Unity (2020–2022)
Borders Party (2006–2020)
Clydesdale and South Scotland Independent (2016–2017)
Communist Party of Scotland (1992–2018)
Crofters Party
Democratic Left Scotland (1998–heute); nicht registriert; Partner der Partei der Europäischen Linken
East Dunbartonshire Independent Alliance
East Kilbride Alliance
Fife Socialist League (1950er–1960er)
Fishing Party (Schottland) (?–2003)
Free Scotland Party (2004–2012?)
Highland Land League (1909–1920er)
Highlands and Islands Alliance
International Socialist Group (2011–2015)
Labour Party of Scotland
Left Alliance (2000er)
National Party of Scotland (1928–1934)
Orkney and Shetland Movement
Orkney Manifesto Group (2013–2022)
Progressive Party (1920er–1970er)
Publican Party (2005–2007)
RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance (August 2015 – November 2020)
Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers (2006–2015)
Scottish Democratic Alliance (2009–2021)
Scottish Enterprise Party (2004–2009)
Scottish Independence Party
Scottish Jacobite Party (Juli 2005 – Juli 2007)
Scottish Labour Party (1888) (1888–1893)
Scottish Labour Party (1976) (1976–1981)
Scottish Militant Labour (1990er)
Scottish Party (1932–1934)
Scottish Prohibition Party (1901–1935)
Scottish Republican Socialist Party (1982–1998)
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party (2003–2015)
Scottish Separatist Group
Scottish Socialist Alliance
Scottish Socialist Federation
Scottish Socialist Party (1987) (1987–1990)
Scottish Voice
Scottish Workers' Representation Committee (1899–1909)
Scottish Workers Republican Party
Solidarity – Scotland's Socialist Movement (2006–2021)
Unionist Party (1912–1965)
United in Europe (2014–2015)
Workers Party of Scotland