List of frivolous political parties
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A frivolous party or a joke party is a political party which has been created for the purposes of entertainment or political satire. Such a party may or may not have a serious point behind its activities. Many countries have had a Pirate Party which could be considered frivolous. This is a list of frivolous political parties.
Some more serious political parties, such as the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, may use the same tactics and humorous approaches to politics as their more frivolous counterparts but aim to address legitimate sociopolitical issues, something that some frivolous parties do not do.
Australia
[edit]- Deadly Serious Party (deregistered in 1988)
- Imperial British Conservative Party (see also: Cecil G. Murgatroyd, defunct)
- Party! Party! Party! (defunct)[1]
- Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party (1989−1991)
- True Whig Party (disbanded 1970)
- Lower Excise Fuel and Beer Party (2001−2005)
Austria
[edit]Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
[edit]Belarus
[edit]- Beer Lovers Party (defunct in 1998)
Canada
[edit]- Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party (defunct)
- Lemon Party (Parti Citron, defunct)
- Rhinoceros Party
- Parti éléphant blanc de Montréal (White Elephant Party of Montreal, defunct)
- The Canada Party
Czech Republic
[edit]- Friends of Beer Party (1990–1998)
Denmark
[edit]Estonia
[edit]- Royalist Party of Estonia (defunct)
Faroe Islands
[edit]- Hin Stuttligi Flokkurin (The Funny Party, defunct)
France
[edit]- Mouvement ondulatoire unifié (1965)
Germany
[edit]- APPD (Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany)
- Die PARTEI ('The Party'; Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Protection of Animals, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative) (represented in the European Parliament)
Hungary
[edit]Iceland
[edit]- Best Party (defunct)
Iran
[edit]- Party of Donkeys (defunct)[3]
Italy
[edit]- Love Party (Partito dell'Amore) (defunct)
- Italian Nettist Party (Partito Nettista Italiano) (defunct)
Japan
[edit]- No Party to Support (Shiji Seitō Nashi, 支持政党なし)
- Happiness Realization Party (Kōfuku Jitsugen-tō, 幸福実現党)
- The Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHK kara Kokumin o Mamoru tō, NHKから国民を守る党)
- Internet Breakthrough Party of Japan (Dennō Toppa-tō, 電脳突破党) (defunct)
- Pirate Party Japan
- Tokyo Tea Party
- Love and Peace Party[4][note 1] (Love & Peace tō, ラブ＆ピース党) (2022, 2024 local elections)[5]
Kosovo
[edit]- Strong Party (Partia e Fortë) (defunct)
Lithuania
[edit]- Party of Bread Eaters (1993 presidential election)
New Zealand
[edit]- Bill and Ben Party (defunct)
- Imperial British Conservative Party (defunct)
- McGillicuddy Serious Party (defunct)
- The Civilian Party (defunct)
Netherlands
[edit]- Party of the Future or The Party Party (defunct)
- Provo (defunct)
- Rapaille Partij (defunct)
Norway
[edit]- Beer Unity Party (defunct)
- The Political Party (defunct)
Poland
[edit]- Polish Beer-Lovers' Party (defunct)
- Polish Party of the Bald[6][7] (1993–1994, defunct)
Romania
[edit]- Partidul Liber-Schimbist (defunct)
Russia
[edit]- Beer Lovers Party (1993–1998, reformed in 2024)[8]
- Party of the Dead
Serbia
[edit]- Sarmu probo nisi: (Ljubiša Preletačević, the leader of SPN, participated in the 2017 Serbian presidential election and he came third with 9.44% of the vote)
Slovenia
[edit]- None of the Above (Nič od tega) (registered in 2024)
Spain
[edit]- Coordinadora Reusenca Independent
- Partido del Karma Democrático, PKD ("Party of the Democratic Karma")
Sweden
[edit]Taiwan
[edit]- Can't Stop This Party
Ukraine
[edit]- Internet Party of Ukraine
- Ukrainian Beer Lovers Party (1991–2001)
United Kingdom
[edit]- Adam Lyal's Witchery Tour Party (defunct)
- Church of the Militant Elvis Party, also known as the Bus Pass Elvis Party (defunct)
- The Eccentric Party of Great Britain (defunct)
- Fancy Dress Party (defunct)
- New Millennium Bean Party
- Official Monster Raving Loony Party
- Raving Loony Green Giant Party (defunct)
- Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party (defunct)
- The Blah! Party[note 2] (defunct)
- Teddy Bear Alliance (defunct)
- Count Binface Party, created by comedian Jonathan David Harvey
- Gremloids[note 3] (1987, 1992, 2017 elections)
- Recyclons[note 4] (2021, 2024 elections)
- Dungeons, Death, & Taxes Party[9] (2005 general election, defunct)
- Happening Happy Hippy Party[10] (1997–2002, defunct)
- Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality[11] (2010–2012, defunct)
- Miss Great Britain Party[10][7] (2008–2009, defunct)
- Al-Zebabist Nation of OOOG[12] (2014–2017, defunct)
United States
[edit]See also
[edit]
- Lists of political parties
- List of fictional political parties
- List of practical joke topics
- Jedi census phenomenon
- Non-human electoral candidates
- Novelty candidate
References
[edit]- ^ List of parties competing in the 1989 ACT election Archived April 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Európai parlamenti képviselők választása 2019 - MKKP listája".
- ^ Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979. Vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0815609070.
- ^ "Teruki Goto's Political Broadcast 2024 [NHK Version] - Tokyo Governor Election, Imperial Calendar 2684, Love & Peace Party, Teruki Goto (後藤輝樹の政見放送 西暦2024年【NHK版】都知事選 皇暦2684年東京都知事選挙ラブ＆ピース党ゴトウテルキ)" (in Japanese). YouTube. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ "Gotō Teruki (後藤輝樹)" (in Japanese). YouTube. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ "Bald Party needs a crown prince". The Independent. 10 August 1994. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ a b "The 11 best-named political parties". The Week. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Kalachev's Declaration (Публикация Калачева)". Telegram (in Russian). Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ "The Fiver: Five of the Oddest UK Political Parties". Anglotopia. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ a b "Top Ten Weird British Political Parties". The Glasgow Times. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality - Political Party Details". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Registration Summary - Al-Zebabist Nation of OOOG". UK Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Kanye West Says He's Done with Trump—Opens up About White House Bid, Damaging Biden and Everything in Between". Forbes.
- Adrian Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable, ISBN 0-304-35871-1
- ^ Party of perennial joke candidate Teruki Gotō; other parties claimed by him have included "Teruki Goto and the Party that Changes the World", "A Sugar That Makes Shinshu Nagano Prefecture Chino City Healthy", "Opposition to Charging for Household Waste Party", et al.
- ^ Merged into Official Monster Raving Loony Party in 2007; reclassified itself as a protest group in 2008.
- ^ Party of perennial joke candidate Lord Buckethead, played by Jonathan David Harvey. Also associated with the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. The character of Lord Buckethead was retired after 2019 due to a copyright dispute.
- ^ Party of perennial joke candidate Count Binface, played by Jonathan David Harvey.