Political Parties

This is a list of political parties that have been created for various frivolous purposes: parody, joke, hoax, etc.

Australia

Austria–Hungary

  • PFGFIDSDG Partei für gemäßigten Fortschritt in den Schranken der Gesetze (Party for Moderate Progress Within the Bounds Of the Law, 1911–1921)

Belarus

Belgium

Active federal party

Active federal party

Canada

Denmark

Estonia

Faroe Islands

Germany

  • Die PARTEI (‘The Party’; Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Protection of Animals, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative)
  • APPD Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany

Hungary

Iceland

Israel

  • Pikanti (a food manufacturer that contested the 1992 election as an advertising gimmick)

Italy

New Zealand

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Romania

Russia

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Ukraine

Official Monster Raving Loony Party

Official Monster Raving Loony Party

United Kingdom

Other parties, such as the Corrective Party or the Rainbow Alliance, were often seen as frivolous, but included some genuine policy aims in their manifestos.

United States

  • Mickey Mouse, while not a party, can be used as a protest or joke write-in candidate

    Jimmy McMillan is the founder of the Rent is Too Damn High Party

    Jimmy McMillan is the founder of the Rent is Too Damn High Party

 

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