History Main / FictionalPoliticalParty

* ''Film/ThePurge'': The annual "Purge Night" holiday was established after the rise of a political party calling itself "The New Founding Fathers".

* ''Fanfic/TheAdventuresOfAshAndHisBestFriendJared'': Lt. Surge ran in the U.S presidential election on the "Kanto Pokemon League Party" ticket.

* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'', an AlternateHistory mod for ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV'' about the Axis victory in WWII, has the American political climate be deeply changed after the defeat of the US by Japan:
National Proggressive Pact; Founded after the messy 1956 elections, is coalition of Nationalist Party and Progressive Party alongside other smaller parties, including Communist Party of US and Neo-Nazi ANV. NPP is a fragile coalition solely united with their anti-Japanese sentiment and distaste of establishment parties. Democrat and Republican parties meanwhile creates RDC (Republican-Democrat Coalition), to combat NPP.

** The Democratic Party under president Joseph P. Kennedy was disgraced for the failures during World War II and vanished from the political scene. Meanwhile, the newly-founded National Progressive Party, a coalition of loosely aligned political movements which are united only by their opposition to status quo and desire for revenge to Nazi Germany and/or Japan, from Communists to Liberals to left-leaning National Socialists, took its former place and presents the main challenge for the American establishment.
** Meanwhile, the Republican Party merged with those Democrats who refused to affiliate with the new party and together they formed the Republican-Democrat Party.

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** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Various material details a very diverse political climate with a very large number of different political organizations and movements all across the galaxy. Some are parties that involve themselves in the local affairs of a single planet; others try to make an impact in the Galactic Republic or New Republic. Among them...

*** By the time of ''Literature/StarWarsBloodline'', there are two major political parties in the New Republic Senate: the Populists, who believe that individual star systems should retain their sovereignty, and the Centrists, who believe that the New Republic should have a strong, centralized government.
** Following the ContinuityReboot that accompanied the release of the Sequel Trilogy, we find that the New Republic Senate is divided between two informal factions -- the Centrists, who believe in a dominant central government and military, and the Populists, who believe in the individual sovereignty of the Republic's member planets.

''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': [[PresidentEvil President Luthor]] represented the Tomorrow Party... well, to be precise, he ''founded'' the Tomorrow Party at a press conference where announced that he was running for President, but "not as a Democrat or a Republican, because both their ideas are too old." While the books didn't elaborate too much on the party's politics, what we saw during Lex's initial declaration of candidacy and in the months after he was elected indicated that the party's politics were probably centrist, with conservative viewpoints on fiscal issues and liberal views on social issues. Lex's platform also apparently contained a pledge to move towards renewable energy and to put technological innovation at the forefront of his platform. In the first few months of his presidency, Lex also "passed the most sweeping education reform in American history," but it was left deliberately vague as to what exactly those reforms were (which is probably for the best, seeing as how ''any'' type of education reform tends to be extremely contentious in RealLife). The Tomorrow Party seems to have dissolved after Lex's fall from power. WordOfGod says that in the months after Lex's fall when Vice President Pete Ross was left to run things, Pete had to deal with massive political fallout from Lex's fall. As of the DC: Decisions storyline, featuring Republican and Democratic Party candidates in danger, there was no more mention of the Tomorrow Party.

* The Anti-Earth Union Group from ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' started out as a pro-space rights political party. It was only after the Titans [[MoralEventHorizon gassed a colony]] that they decided that political lobbying wasn't going to cut it, armed themselves, and became LaResistance. They still continue their lobbying at Earth Federation summits, though. They dissolve following the end of the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ First Neo-Zeon War]], their objectives having been accomplished.
* In the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga, Rei Hino's father Takashi is a Democratic Liberal Party politician. The naming reverses that of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan's dominant party of the post-war era.

* In ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', the only democratic freedom allowed to the citizens of Mega-City One is the election of the city's Mayor, a very minor role that serves as a liaison between citizens and Justice Department.

* In ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD's]]'' ''Robo-Hunter'', the robots on the planet one story takes place on have built a government full of political parties. Since the robots are actually controlled by a genius dictator robot, the government robots are utterly insane and spend most of their time arguing and trying to push pointless agendas.
* A one-shot short that Creator/AlanMoore wrote for ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' called "Chronocops" (imagine "TimeTravel [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}''") saw the main characters travel to a [[NextSundayAD not-too-distant future]] Great Britain where [[SpearCarrier one man handing out fliers]] encourages people to vote for "the Lab-Con Alliance" as the only way to defeat the Social Democrats, suggesting that the center-left Labour Party and the center-right Conservative Party with highly conflicting party platforms have somehow become a single party.
* ComicBook/HowardTheDuck ran for President in 1976 for the All Night Party with the slogan, "Get Down, America!"
* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics, [[PresidentEvil President]] [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthor]] represented the Tomorrow Party...well, to be precise, he ''founded'' the Tomorrow Party at a press conference where announced that he was running for President, but "not as a Democrat or a Republican, because both their ideas are too old." While the books didn't elaborate too much on the party's politics, what we saw during Lex's initial declaration of candidacy and in the months after he was elected indicated that the party's politics were probably centrist, with conservative viewpoints on fiscal issues and liberal views on social issues. Lex's platform also apparently contained a pledge to move towards renewable energy and to put technological innovation at the forefront of his platform. In the first few months of his presidency, Lex also "passed the most sweeping education reform in American history," but it was left deliberately vague as to what exactly those reforms were (which is probably for the best, seeing as how ''any'' type of education reform tends to be extremely contentious in RealLife).
** The Tomorrow Party seems to have dissolved after Lex's fall from power. WordOfGod says that in the months after Lex's fall when Vice President Pete Ross was left to run things, Pete had to deal with massive political fallout from Lex's fall. As of the DC: Decisions storyline, featuring Republican and Democratic Party candidates in danger, there was no more mention of the Tomorrow Party.
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica featured a Presidential Candidate who started the Third Wing Party. It was all part of Red Skull's latest evil scheme.
* [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Norsefire]] from ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. In the graphic novel, they come to power in the chaos following an apocalyptic nuclear war, but Creator/AlanMoore models them as a FictionalCounterpart to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Front the British National Front.]] In [[Film/VForVendetta the film]], the party came to power after a democratic election that they tipped to themselves with a [[FalseFlagOperation manufactured bioterrorism incident]], and is indicated to have [[RenegadeSplinterFaction broken off from the Tories]].

* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' gave us the Meadow Party, which the main characters formed each election year and seemed to rely more on political double-speak and good publicity than actually, you know, taking a stand for anything. It ran presidential candidates in 1984 and 1988 and lost both times. The 2010s revival of the strip has seen them become a monarchist party.
* In the Swedish comic ''James Hund'', the eponymous protagonist was accidentally registered as the main representative (and only member) of the "Blank" Party (It started out as a badly written complaint regarding a missing lumber shipment). This results in every blank vote going to his platform instead of being disregarded. A few weeks later James was very surprised to find he was supposed to attend parliament, or that he held a massive majority.
* ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark:
** An election in the city-state of Iest between the Republican Party (a pseudo-theocratic, pro-democracy and nationalist faction) and the Devotionalist Party (which seeks to keep Iest economically dependent on its neighbor Palnu). Both parties are a front for Astoria and Lord Julius to gain power in Iest.
** In New Sepra, there is mention of Cirinists (militant feminist), Kevillists (less militant feminist), theocrats, Sepran Empire loyalists and "anarcho-romantics".

** A passage in ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'' mentions a few Bajoran political parties, the Socialists, Nationalists, and the Conservative Association. In 2401 the Socialists and the Conservatives together outvote the Nationalists to shut down the Bajoran Militia [[SpaceNavy Space Arm]] on budgetary grounds.
** In "Fanfic/PastContinuous" the Nationalists are responsible for organizing anti-Federation, anti-Klingon protests against the use of Hathon as a temporary forward operating base against the time-shifted Jem'Hadar occupying Deep Space 9.
** There's a very brief mention of Federation national political parties in ''Fanfic/AVoiceInTheWilderness''. In response to a remark that President Aennik Okeg's poll numbers have crashed:
-->'''Eleya:''' My heart bleeds. I voted straight-ticket Labor.

** Like in Literature/{{Timeline 191}} itself, the United States' political spectrum is dominated by the right-wing Democrats and left-wing Socialists, with the Republicans as a minor third party only relevant initially in the Midwest. However, it later expands thanks to the new states added from Canada, the former Confederacy, and the Caribbean, eventually becoming a major centrist counter-balance to the other parties.

* ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'':
** The story "Countdown" features the Prosperity Party, which runs on a campaign of national richness, increased employment, and "a healthy dose of [[CorruptPolitician electoral fraud]]". Once in control of the Nicklands Republic, they ramp up mining of blue ectoplasm as a fuel source, despite the hazardous nature of the substance.
** "Feeling Presidential" shows that several new parties emerge in response to Americans getting fed up with the two-party system. There's a new Progressive Party, which runs on liberal platforms (the party of Presidents [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Dipper Pines]], [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Stevonnie]], and [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Dani Phantom]]), the Justice Party, originally the Trap Construction Party, which is a strong law-and-order group (the party of Presidents [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Fred Jones]] and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]), and the Truth Party, which is dedicated to investigations of the supernatural (the party of Presidents [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Denzel Crocker]] and [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Dib Membrane]]).
* ''Fanfic/EarthsAlienHistory'':
** The main political parties of the [[Franchise/StarFox Lylat system]] are the Crown Loyalists (officially conservative, but stated to be centrist by modern real life standards), the Lylat Progressive Party (compared to a mix of the British Liberal-Democrats and American Democrats), and the Labour Party (leftist; described as more syndicalist than socialist).
** When the Klingons become a parliamentary democracy following the Praxis War, several political parties emerge. There's the True Way Party (reactionaries who want a return to the old warrior-dominated government), the People's Coalition (an alliance of smaller communist, anarchist, and syndicalist groups), the Naturalist Party (ecologists), the Prosperity Party (centrists who believe the status quo is best for everyone) and the Freedom Party (ultra-capitalists and ultra-individualists who believe no government regulation of anything will drive people to survive and thrive on their own merits).
* ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'': Following the First Slave War, two political factions emerge in Braavos — the Sharks (who want to join the Sunset Company in crushing the slaver cities) and the Whales (who want to let the Westerosi do all the hard work while they profit from it).
* ''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/burn-them-all-an-alternate-history-of-westeros-following-the-desolation-of-king’s-landing.509835/ Burn Them All]]'' sees multiple factions eventually emerge in the Middle Council, the proto-legislative body that's formed to provide Westeros with stability following the DecapitationStrike that is the Desolation of King's Landing. The Party of the Crown, or Whites, are traditionalists who want the king to be the highest authority (with a subset called the Wyrms who want the king to have ''absolute'' authority); the Party of Sovereignty, or Reds, are separatists who want the Seven Kingdoms to become independent of each other again; and the Party of the Parley, or Bronzes, want the Middle Council itself to become the highest authority, with the king becoming a figurehead.
* In the Inspector Varg novels by Creator/AlexanderMcCallSmith, the Inspector's brother is a leader of the Moderate Extremists... who are at odds with the dastardly Extreme Moderates.

* In ''Film/DeathRace2000'', Frankenstein runs over "The Deacon of the Bipartisan Party" for 50 points. Apart from both running and sponsoring the eponymous death race and having religious figures in positions of power in the party, not much is known about this party's platform or political views, but it's possibly a fusion of the Democratic and Republican Parties to judge by its name.
* In ''Film/ThePurge'', the annual "Purge Night" holiday was established after the rise of a political party calling itself "The New Founding Fathers".
* 1932 satire ''Film/TheDarkHorse'' features the Progressive and Conservative parties facing off in a gubernatorial campaign. Oddly, the Republicans and Democrats apparently exist in some form in the movie's universe, as Progressive nominee Zachary Hicks is mentioned in one line of dialogue as having dinner with both of them.

* The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse details a very diverse political climate with a very large number of different political organizations and movements all across the galaxy. Some are parties that involve themselves in the local affairs of a single planet; others try to make an impact in the Galactic Republic or New Republic. Among them...
** During and around the time of the Prequel Trilogy, the two main factions in the Galactic Republic are the Separatists, led by Count Dooku, who wanted to leave the the Republic and see that it was disbanded, and the Loyalists, led by Senator Palpatine, who wanted to remain with it; as we all should know, this eventually led to the rise of the [[EvilEmpire Galactic Empire]].
*** Also, before the Clone Wars, the Republic had two factions in the Senate. The Core Faction was liberal, supportive of trade tariffs, and made mostly of humans. The Rim Faction was conservative, anti-tariff, and made up of non-humans. During the election alluded to in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Bail Antilles represented the Core Faction, Ainlee Teem represented the Rim Faction, Palpatine was independent, and Valorum was just fighting for his career; every faction had abandoned him.
** The Rights of Sentience Party is a party in the New Republic that grew out of a lobbyist group with a similar aim, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin to protect the rights of sentient species]].
** The True Victory Party was a political party comprised of radical Bothans who wished to continue ar'kai (i.e. "genocidal warfare") against the Yuuzhan Vong.
** The POWER Party (that's [[FunWithAcronyms Preserve Our Wild Endangered Resources]] Party) of the planet Telos IV was an organization created in opposition to the Telosian government granting a MegaCorp control over the planet's national parks and sacred lands for the mining of resources, which the POWER Party believed should be illegal. Except it had [[OddlySmallOrganization only one member]], two if you count the [[GentlemanThief supporting thief]].
** Following the ContinuityReboot that accompanied the release of the Sequel Trilogy, we find that the New Republic Senate is divided between two informal factions -- the Centrists, who believe in a dominant central government and military, and the Populists, who believe in the individual sovereignty of the Republic's member planets.

* The Industrial Radical Party in the SteamPunk story ''Literature/TheDifferenceEngine'', who believe in scientific endeavor, industrial progress, and meritocracy, appointing peerages to "savants". Creator/LordByron is Prime Minister. So yeah.
* The "Clean US Party" ([[FunWithAcronyms CUSP]]), led by crooner Johnny Gentle in Creator/DavidFosterWallace's DoorStopper ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' (set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture relative to the early 1990s, or in other words, about now). The party is deeply, deeply concerned with keeping the United States "clean and tight" (as President Gentle puts it), to the point of dumping ridiculous amounts of toxic waste in a part of New England so that they can give it to Canada (and thus not be in the US anymore). Yes, it's that kind of novel.
* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' brings us 'Ingsoc' (English Socialism), normally referred to simply as 'The Party' after they've long since gotten rid of the competition, forming [[TheDictatorship a totalitarian regime]]. Judging from what little history we can discern, they were originally a far-left (possibly communist) party which formed in Britain or Europe, eventually succeeding in revolution. Their supposed beliefs about social equality were all just a sham, or have long since become one- the only thing The Party wants is power. There are two similar parties controlling the rest of the world, Eurasia apparently following Neo-Bolshevism; whilst Eastasia follows a philosophy "called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-worship, but perhaps better rendered as 'Obliteration of the Self'".
* Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Timeline 191}}'' series has:

* In "The Augean Stables", one of the stories in Agatha Christie's Creator/HerculePoirot collection ''Literature/TheLaboursOfHercules'', the Prime Minister (who is desperate to keep his predecessor from being exposed as a crook) belongs to the People's Party. Strangely, in a later story in the collection, the Labor and Tory parties are mentioned by name.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'':
** Manticore alone has the Centrists (Chiefly pragmatists), the Crown Loyalists (who believe that an empowered monarch is a good thing to counter the aristocracy and currently allied with the Centrists as the Queen supports them), the Liberals (socialists), the Progressives (vaguely liberal, but chiefly opportunists), the Conservative Association (Conservative and seeks to maintain the power of the aristocracy), and the New Men (Opportunists, even more so than the Progressives).
** The newly reformed Republic of Haven is also rapidly developing several, such as the Constitutional Progressives (Eloise Pritchart's Party), New Democrats, New Conservatives, and Corporate Conservatives, though the politics aren't as elaborated on.
** The Talbott Constitutional Convention develops two political parties - the Constitutional Union Party and the Constitution Liberal Party. The only difference is that the latter (who are actually more akin to the Manticoran Conservatives) seeks to preserve the Cluster's autonomy. They claim to be preserving local customs and liberties, but what they really want is to preserve their own local power bases, without worrying about things like the Manticoran Constitution's stronger protections for civil liberties.
* The German young adult book ''Machtspiel'' by Andreas Schlüter features a politician of the 'Freie Soziale Demokratische Union' (Free Social Democratic Union), a combination of the names of the 3 most important parties in [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany Germany]].
* In Norman Spinrad’s ''Literature/BugJackBarron'', Jack becomes the Presidential Candidate of both the left-wing Social Justice Coalition and the Republican Party, and stands against “Teddy and his ghosts” of the Democratic Party.
* In ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', New Crobuzon's Parliament is controlled by the Fat Sun party, and also includes [=MP=]s from the anti-xenian Three Quills, pro-xenian Diverse Tendency and idealistic/eccentric Finally We Can See parties.
* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series, the city of Haven is feuded over by Conservative and Reform blocs, with minority factions representing merchants' Free Trade, the militant/religious Brotherhood of Steel, and Lord Sinclair's personal No Tax On Liquor agenda (a.k.a. the Who's For A Party? party).
* In the Literature/AllianceUnion verse, Union has several. The big two parties are the Centrists (named because they want to concentrate on centralized investment in the already developed systems of Union) and the Expansionists (who want to grow and expand into new systems). There are also smaller, extremist & single issue parties. Those mentioned include parties limited to a single space station, the Abolitionists (who advocate banning human cloning), and the Hawks (pro-military party who want to reclaim Alliance space).
* Several Creator/PoulAnderson stories feature a "Libertarian Party", dating from long before the actual party of that name.
* An interesting example is Creator/RobertSilverberg's ''Literature/TowerOfGlass'', where a sort of counterpart of Libertarians is called the "Witherers", because they supposedly stand for the withering away of the state. Of course, that does not keep them from fighting elections.
* In E.E.Smith's ''[[Literature/{{Lensman}} First Lensman]]'', the party system in North America is the Cosmocrats (supporting the nascent [[TheFederation Galactic Patrol]]) and the Nationalists (manipulated by [[TheEmpire Boskone]]).
* In Creator/MackReynolds' short story "Literature/TrampleAnEmpireDown", bored dolees set out to undermine the establishment by openly mounting the Subversive Party, whose slogan is "What's In It For Me?" It succeeds beyond anyone's wildest dreams (or nightmares).
* The planet Astrobe in Creator/RALafferty's ''Literature/PastMaster'' has a bewildering array of parties, encouraged by its intricate voting system. These include the Hatrack Party, the First, Second and Third Compromise Parties, the Unreconstructeds (humans only, no robots), the Esthetics, the Anesthetics, and a splinter calling themselves "Local Anesthetics". At one point, Thomas More finds himself being interviewed by The Crank, a one-man "party" who managed to slip between the cracks.
* In the ''Literature/StarCarrier'' series the Terran Confederation Parliament is officially non-partisan, but that doesn't stop unofficial party-like voting blocs from developing. One named early on is the Conciliationists, who hope to work out a negotiated peace with the [[BigBad Sh'daar]] who are slowly overrunning the Confederation. The fourth book focuses more on Earth politics and names several inside the [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica United States of North America]], such as the Freedomists who want the USNA to at least maintain as much autonomy from the Confederation as it can, if not secede altogether (making them something like an American version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party UK Independence Party]]).
* There's a smattering of fictional parties in ''Literature/ForWantOfANail'', an AlternateHistory where the American Revolution was crushed and in place of the United States of America are two rival continental powers, the United States of Mexico and the Confederacy of North America:
** The CNA starts off with the (Unified) Liberals and the (National) Conservatives, but in the decades after the Industrial Revolution, the Conservatives are eclipsed and eventually absorbed by the social democratic People's Coalition. And then the end of the book's timeline sees the post-Global War rising of the anti-war Peace and Justice Party, with speculation in-universe that it might do the same to the Liberals.
** The USM starts off with the small-government Liberty Party and the expansionist Continentalist Party. However, after the collapse of the Hermion dictatorship that they were part of the rise of, the Continentalists dissolve and reform as the United Mexican Party, which is basically the same product with a different wrapper. For a brief time, there was also the radically anti-Anglo/anti-big business Workers Coalition, which eventually transformed into the guerrilla terrorist organization the Moralistas. And finally, there's the Progressive Party, which is just part of the facade of democracy that Colonel Mercator eventually sets up over his own dictatorship (after banning the established parties) near the end of the book's timeline.
* ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'' pities the fact that Teddy Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party lost in 1912, because otherwise it "might have started a whole new trend of giving comical animal names to political parties, and today we might be seeing election battles between the Small Hairless Nocturnal Rodent party and the Stench-Emitting Ox party, and this country would be a ''lot'' more fun." Previous chapters mention Presidents being elected with the support of the Anal Compulsive Party, the Party to Elect Presidents with Stupid Nicknames and the Let's Elect Presidents with Comical First Names party.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The Free City of Volantis features two big parties who compete for one of the three ruling chairs (Triarchs) of the city. The "Tiger" party pulls for military expansionism, while "Elephants" are mostly moneylenders who want to build trade relationships. The latter has been consistently more popular for quite some time, as the Tigers have never elected more than one of their members as Triarchs for nearly 300 years.
* ''Literature/{{Domina}}'': There are two sets of political parties.
** The primary parties of the city are mostly based on how to deal with outsiders, and are named after famous individual trees; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iluvatar_%28tree%29 Iluvatar]] (isolationists), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Banyan the Great Banyan]] (diplomatic expansionists), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongeegen Kongeegen]] (social Darwinists), and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granit_Oak the Granit Oak]] (imperialist expansionists).
** The parties of the [[spoiler:Atlantean merfolk]] are Naiads (free traders), Nereids (isolationists), and Oceanids (unionists).
* Near-future thriller ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has the right-wing populist Maine First Party that the underground [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Christian Marines militia]] launch as their public "front" group. It takes off like a rocket in response to several especially visible local and federal political abuses, and soon has counterparts/daughter chapters in other states as well. After it controls the legislature, it begins to work for Maine's unilateral declaration of independence from the United States.
* The Pierson's Puppeteers in the ''Literature/KnownSpace'' series (including ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'') have two political parties: Conservatives, who are isolationist, and Experimentalists, who favor interventionist foreign policy.
* The populist "Wake Up, America" Party in ''{{Literature/Caliphate}}'' was formed after a nuclear attack on the United States by Islamic terrorists on September 11. They gained popularity among the distraught and grieving American public due to the lack of response from the government against the perpetrators and their party candidate, Pat Buckman, building a campaign around the message, "We'll make them pay." It's because of this that they were alternatively known as the "Armageddon Party."
* The America Now party started by Greg Stillson in ''Literature/TheDeadZone'', described as "superficially liberal on domestic issues and moderate to very conservative on issues of foreign policy," although, "when you peeled back the liberal veneer on domestic postions, they turned out to be pretty conservative, too."
* ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'': The council of Karthain is dominated by two parties -- the Deep Roots, founded by OldMoney, and the Black Iris, comprising young progressives. However, the city-state's true rulers are the [[SupernaturalElite Bondsmagi]], who secretly mind-control the {{Muggles}} into doing whatever they want and treat the elections like a spectator sport.
* ''Literature/TheFootprintOfMussolini'':
** In response to President Henry Wallace's desegregation policies and soft stance on Communism, the Dixiecrats split from the Democrats and found the Freedom Party on a platform of segregation and social conservatism. [[spoiler: The Democrats then implode completely after Wallace is impeached for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets, with the pro-Wallace left wing splitting off to form the Progressive Democratic Party, which collapses not long after Wallace is convicted of being a Soviet spy.]]
** And when the Freedom Party in turn alienates its own far-right wing by not defending the KKK from the crackdowns following [[spoiler: Jackie Robinson's lynching]], they split off to form the State's Rights Party, which advocates expanding Jim Crow to the whole country and turning the Klan into a StateSec.

* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch during the campaign season for the 1996 US Presidential Election was modeled as a ''Larry King Live'' broadcast giving Third Party candidates the opportunity to voice themselves in the media. Along with Ross Perot and the Libertarian nominee, opinions were also heard from the Totalitarian Dictatorship Party and the Female Circumcision Party.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' has an "Election Night Special" sketch, covering the 1970 UK General Election. All elections are mainly contested by two parties, the Sensible Party and the Silly Party; the Slightly Silly Party and Very Silly Party both vouch candidates in a few districts as well.
** There was also a "Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Wood Party", in which the Minister giving the broadcast fell through the Earth's crust.
** They also had a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Norwegian Party. Reasons given to vote for them include Norway's high per-capita income, a 14% industrial re-investment rate, and [[DistractedByTheSexy girls with massive knockers]].
** There's also the National Bocialist Party, which is a bunch of thinly-disguised German Nazi leaders trying to revive their political power by contesting a by-election in Minehead.
* During ''Series/TheDailyShow'''s coverage of the 2000 Presidential Election, host Jon Stewart once claimed that the Green Party was the result of a joint rally for the Yellow and Blue Parties held during a rainstorm.
* The episode "Dish And Dishonesty" from ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third'' uses these in a parody of British election conventions. Faced with a potential prime minister who could politically harm Prince George, Blackadder attempts to tip parliament back in their favour by convincing the owner of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs#Rotten_boroughs rotten borough]] (a tiny electorate with a very small amount of voters that could easily be bribed) to go their way. That owner suddenly dies, so Blackadder instead decides to run Baldrick as the candidate on behalf of the "Adder Party," a name that becomes much more appropriate when it turns out that Blackadder was both the borough's Returning Officer and lone voter after both died in freak "accidents." Other fictitious parties on the ballot included "Keep Royalty White, Rat Catching And Safe Sewage Residents' Party" and the "Standing at the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party" (whose party line stands for "the compulsory serving of asparagus at breakfast, free corsets for the 'under-fives,' and [[TheTriple the abolition of slavery]]").
* The Finnish TV comedy series ''Ihmisten puolue'' is about the eponymous fictional party ("Humans' Party"). The party in question has little detectable ideology, being composed of a small group of individuals that bicker about everything.
* When Mr Gribble from ''Series/RoundTheTwist'' runs for the Senate in the second series, he belongs to the fictional (in Australia [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_(Australia) at the time]]) "Progressive Conservative Party," who have the same party colour (blue) as the real-life Liberal Party.
* One episode of ''Series/MostExtremeEliminationChallenge'' saw Republicans vs. Democrats vs. Third Party; the majority of the "third parties" named are made-up, including the Brown Party, the S&M Party, the Wiccan Party, and GILF.
* ''Series/YesMinister'' primarily uses NoPartyGiven--but when the results for Jim Hacker's constituency are announced in the first episode, Hacker is wearing a white rosette, a color affiliated with no actual British party (white is normally used for Independents). WildMassGuessing on the part of fans variously put Hacker with a revived Liberal Party or a new Centre Party of the type proposed by several people in the late seventies. Notably in the series Hacker sometimes talks about the Conservatives and Labour as though they are both rivals to his own party.
* ''Series/{{Spooks}}'' featured the British Way Party, who were a FictionalCounterpart to the real-life British National Party.
* On ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'', Adam explains how gerrymandering works using the Yellow Party and the Purple Party. In terms of their actual positions, the Yellow Party believe all gay people should be required to own guns and [[FinalSolution all people named "Trevor" should be executed by the state]], while the Purple Party believes "all guns are gay" and want to pass a law requiring babies to vape.
* All political parties in the Danish series ''Series/{{Borgen}}'' are fictional. However, they are thinly veiled versions of real life Danish parties. They also seem to represent a simplified left-right "sliding scale" that's easier for the viewer to understand.

* The Drazi in ''Series/BabylonFive'' have two main political parties: Purple and Green. These parties have no coherent ideology, demographics or founding ideal: All Drazi of voting age are randomly assigned to either Green or Purple at the beginning of each election cycle, by drawing a coloured sash out of a box (one sash of each colour has a leader mark on it, marking that person as the local party leader). The two parties then beat each other up until one party has had enough and concedes the election, at which point the winning party forms a government behind its leaders and the sashes are put back in their boxes, dissolving both parties. Drazi politics has managed to operate on this system for centuries and they are completely okay with it.

* An episode of ''Series/KamenRiderBlack'' has [[ReligionOfEvil Gorgom]] using their connections to form a political party called the "EP Party" in order to run for office.

* Music/{{GWAR}}'s album ''War Party'' centers around a political party (named "[[TitleDrop The War Party]]") that supports policies dedicated especially to the eradication of the human race through global war and hatred. The party's symbol is said to be the "Krosstika," a combination of the Christian cross and the Nazi swastika, representing "two great hates that hate great together." According to GWAR lore, the political party has since disbanded.

* The BBC Radio 4 sitcom ''Radio/{{Party}}'' is all about a small, nameless, unsuccessful party run ineptly by a handful of bickering students.

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** "Policlubs," essentially highly influential special interest groups, are usually divided along metatype lines with two of the largest being human-supremacist "Humanis" and the ork-supremacist "Sons Of Sauron". When it comes to activities, policlubs run the entire gamut from "peaceful advocacy group" via "vigilante mob" to "out-and-out terror network". Groups like the NRA, ACLU or NAACP would probably feel right at home among the policlubs of the Sixth World.
* In ''Underground'' by Mayfair Games (published in 1993), the U.S. in 2021 is dominated by two political parties, the Plutocrats, founded by H. Ross Perot (the movement that would become the Reform Party in the real world), which had the position that whatever is good for the rich is best for the entire country, and the Republicrats (a centrist union of the Democrats and Republicans which generally exists to oppose whatever the Plutocrats want). European politics are dominated by the ARC Party run by the ChurchOfHappyology, which runs the European Union as a single-party dictatorship.
* ''The Way of D'era: The Romulan Star Empire'', a supplement for the ''TabletopGame/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRolePlayingGame'' by Creator/LastUnicornGames, lists four Romulan Senate political parties (called coalitions): Jaridan[[note]]pro-military, expansionist foreign policy, supports ongoing policy of confrontation with the Federation and Klingon Empire[[/note]], Nej'ahar[[note]]in favor of a more defensive military posture and improving economic opportunity for Romulans, but also a traditional Romulan values party[[/note]], Jol Tan[[note]]stresses loyalty to the Empire above all, staunchly supportive of the [[StateSec Tal Shiar]][[/note]], and Suketh[[note]]a moderate version of the Jaridans, espousing a slower and more sustainable expansion of the Empire; viewed as radicals by the other coalitions and closely watched by the Tal Shiar[[/note]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' fluff posits a number of political movements within the Inquisition. There are two large groupings, the Puritans and Radicals (each of which has several sub-movements), who largely correspond to the ByTheBookCop and CowboyCop archetypes once you feed them through ''40k'''s world: the Puritans believe it is of the utmost importance to uphold the letter of Inquisition doctrine, the Radicals are more experimental and inclined towards the spirit of the doctrine even if it means violating the letter.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'':
** The Clans developed two political factions at the beginning of the Political Century: The Wardens and the Crusaders. Both were based on interpretations of Alexander Kerensky's "Hidden Hope Doctrine", which had originally been a RousingSpeech intended to boost the SLDF exiles' morale by pointing out the faults in the Inner Sphere they had left behind. The Crusaders interpreted the Hidden Hope Doctrine as a wish that the Clans would one day return to the Inner Sphere and put an end to its ForeverWar by conquering the Great Houses and resurrecting [[GoldenAge Star League]] under Clan leadership, while the Wardens interpreted it as the Clans needing to stay apart from the Inner Sphere and develop their own society with a higher moral standard, only returning to it if an external foe threatened to overrun humanity. The Wardens quickly saw that the greatest threat to the Inner Sphere was the Crusaders, leading to an irrevocable split between the two factions. The Crusaders eventually came out on top, sparking the Clan Invasion storyline.
** Following the Wars of Reaving, a giant CivilWar (initially) fought between Clans who had participated in the Clan Invasion (mostly Crusaders) and Clans who had been forced to remain behind on the Clan homeworlds (mostly Wardens), Clan society became highly insular and began viewing the Inner Sphere as irrevocably tainted. The result was two new political parties rising from the ashes: The Bastions, who saw the Inner Sphere as a place where the Clan lifestyle went to die and wanted noting more to do with it, and the Aggressors, who saw the continued existence of the Inner Sphere as a threat to the Clan Way and wanted a second Clan Invasion with the express purpose of wiping it out.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' introduces the Terra Firma Party, a human political party that mainly seeks to [[AbsoluteXenophobe oppose humanity's involvement and integration with the rest of the galactic community, believing that humanity needs to stand on its own if they're to remain strong]]. Commander Shepard (as well as his/her squad mates) can comment and give his/her opinion on what he/she thinks of such a platform, and the player can choose whether or not Shepard endorses the Terra Firma Party or TakeAThirdOption and tell them that the regs prohibit Shepard from endorsing political candidates.
* Major parties of Mega-Primus Senate in ''VideoGame/XCOMApocalypse'' are rivals [[http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Extropians Extropians]] and [[http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Technocrats Technocrats]].
* In the GovernmentProcedural ''VideoGame/HiddenAgenda1988'', the BananaRepublic of Chimerica is divided between the right-wing Popular Stability, the moderate Christian Reform, and the leftist National Liberation.

* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', the sole political party in the floating city of Columbia is called the "Founders Party", promoting a far right-wing agenda rooted in American Exceptionalism, racism, and a narrow-minded view of Christianity.
* In an AlternateHistory mod for ''[[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron Hearts of Iron IV]]''--''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'', about the Axis victory in WWII--the American political climate was deeply changed after the defeat of the US by Japan:

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', all space-faring empires that aren't a HiveMind will have factions that favor one of the eight ethics available in the game -- in the more democratic ones that hold regular elections, these are essentially new political parties that compete in whatever legislative body runs the government, and the leaders of the largest factions have an advantage in winning elections. They each spawn with a randomly-generated name for the party reflective of the ethic they favor (e.g., "Citizens Equality Coalition" for the faction favoring egalitarianism). Currying the favor of the largest factions by adopting their favored policies (e.g., no population or migration controls for the Egalitarian party) is beneficial as they grant more influence points to your empire. Their relative attractiveness to the population and subsequent political power can be affected by both the empire's overall situation (e.g., constantly winning wars makes Militarism more attractive, research agreements with Materialist empires increases that ethic's attractiveness) and direct actions by the player by spending influence points (embracing or promoting a faction increases its attractiveness, suppressing the faction decreases it).

* ''VideoGame/Persona5''
** The United Future Party. Considering how the party's founder, [[PresidentEvil Masayoshi Shido]], was formerly a member of the real-world [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePoliticalSystem Liberal Democrat Party]], it's assumed that the party has a somewhat-similar, if not extremely exaggerated, ideology or platform.
** In the [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 confidant]] with former Diet member Yoshida, the Liberal Co-Prosperity Party, a possible stand-in for the RealLife Liberal Democrat Party, is mentioned as the party that an influential group of Diet members want to leave following a string of scandals.

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* In ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'', two political parties are named on the Meditan Empire: the Efficientists and the Expansionists. Not much is known about them, except that members of the Corvo House are usually Expansionists. If [[https://sarilho.net/en/arquivo/comic/ch1p22 Franq's words]] are anything to go by, the Efficientists are the reason there has been a peace treaty between the Meditan Empire and Lusitania.

* Back in 2000, Llewelyn of ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' ran for President on the People With Nothing Better To Do ticket. [[SpringtimeForHitler Despite his deliberately absurd platform, he comes surprisingly close to winning]].

* In ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'', the major parties of the United States are the Democrats and the Patriots, who are later replaced by the Unionists, and the major parties of the Republic of New England are the Federalists, Radicals, and Republicans.
* Website/SomethingAwful's [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/election-results-2012.php 2012 election results for the fictional American city of Shaggy Butte]] is filled to the brim with these. A truncated list of some of the more absurd (funny) ones:
** Atheist String Theorist Party
** Coot Reform
** Crime Island Syndicate
** Christian Prayer Warriors for Israel
** Mommy Bloggers United
** Titanic Survivors
** God's Freedom Riders
** Eye of Ra Party
** Proud Bedwetters
* In Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom TL ''Literature/AGiantSuckingSound'', the premise is Ross Perot winning the 1992 election. When his attempts at bipartisanship fail, he creates the Freedom Party, an [[EnemyMine unlikely mix]] of centrist and center-right politicians, political radicals, and others dissatisfied with the two-party system. Its recruits include Democrats Paul Tsongas, Jerry Brown, Joe Lieberman, and Howard Dean; former Republicans John [=McCain=], Warren Rudman, and Arlen Specter; libertarians like Ron Paul and L. Neil Smith; independents like Bernie Sanders, Angus King, and Jesse Ventura; radicals and activists like John Hagelin, Ralph Nader, and Al Sharpton; and other celebrities like [[Music/DeadKennedys Jello Biafra]], Creator/DonaldTrump, and [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]].
* In the alternate history ''Literature/RedsARevolutionaryTimeline'', as the TL develops, new political parties form, but usually out of existing political parties. And the parties that have the same name tend to have diverged in radically different ways to become InNameOnly versions of their OTL counterparts.
** In the present day, the American major parties, from the political right to left, are:
*** ''True Democrats'': the designated traitor party. The drain trap that catches everything that won't accomodate to the revolution, becoming the mirror image of Western communist parties in our world.
*** ''The Democratic-Republican Party'': The resident mainstream right-wing party, although mostly center-left in Real Life. It's a catchall for the progressive political center- they approach socialism from a mutualist [[note]]an anarchist school of thought which advocates a market-based alternative to capitalism based around workers' associations (cooperatives)[[/note]] perspective. They favor markets and limited property relations. UsefulNotes/RonPaul serves Secretary-General (chief of staff and second-in-command). Think a communist American version of IRL libertarians.
*** ''Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party'': the former left-wing of the Democratic Party, they approach socialism from a christian perspective, and are largely left-wing nationalists.
*** ''Communist Labor Party'': the former center and right-wing of the Workers' Party, they place a greater emphasis on Marxism, support a more statist economy and are largely centrist on social issues.
*** ''Liberation Party'': the left-wing splinter from the Workers' Party, founded as [[Main/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Liberation Communist Party]]. They're Left Communists [[note]]a term refering to communist that hold views to the left of Bolsheviks, usually of an anarcho-communist and internationalist position[[/note]] who want to push foward the world revolution and have a strong libertine streak.
*** ''Social Ecological Union'': Greens, with libertarian marxist and social anarchist wings. The Champions of environmental diversity and stability, the SEU qualifies as far-left by any standard and generally supports full worker control over the economy. Party leader Alix Olson is the current Premier of the US.
** In the present day, the major parties of the Franco-British Union, from the political right to left, are:
*** ''People's Alliance/Alliance Populaire'': the party of perpetual government in the post-[=WW2=] era, formed in 1949 from the ad hoc alliance between the British Conservative Party and the French Rally of Popular Republicans. The People's Alliance has constructed the economy along corporatist lines, establishing pro-business "patriotic unions" and doling out patronage through a sophisticated system of state capitalism to ensure social stability. On social issues, they've hold back women, minority and LGBT movements and only making reforms opportunistically.
*** ''Liberty/Liberté'';: the predominant right-wing opposition in the FBU, it does not style itself as a political party [[DistinctionWithoutADifference in spite of electing representatives to local and national government]]. It's mostly composed of [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic an armed paramilitary wing]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Venture Capitalists]], Liberty styles itself as an ideologically liberal organization but is willing to support authoritarian measures to battle communism.
*** ''Labour Party/Parti d'Ouvriers'': the merger between the UK's Labour Party and the French Section to the Workers' International (SFIO), it is a big tent left-wing party that suffered from the flight of the right-wing to the People's Alliance, the party leadership was taken over by Marxists and the center dwindled. It's under constant attack from the corporate media and the StateSec.
*** ''Communist Party'': officially known as [[Main/OverlyLongName Entente Section of the Communist International]], has remained unified under a general program of revolutionary socialism. Since the seventies, the Communists are the hotbed of identity politics including feminist, LGBT liberation and multicultural thought.
** In the Republic of Palestine, the nation is dominated by the Democratic Liberation Front (DLF), which is a coalition of six parties that are [[WeAREStrugglingTogether largely similar except for minor points]], with the only legal opposition being the Palestine Communist Party which believes that the DLF is [[NoTrueScotsman not radical enough]] and moderate parties like the Islamic Democrats and General Zionists. You can see the greater detail of the parties [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/list-political-parties-of-alternate-countries.249963/page-2#post-6539681 here]].
* In ''Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo'', a more turbulent, polarized, and economically depressed 1970s results in the splintering of America's two party system. New political parties emerge.
** We The People, a far-left urban party whose name is taken from the first line in the preamble to the Constitution, is formed by Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums and others who were dissatisfied with the ineptitude of [[spoiler: President George Wallace]].

* Many examples in ''Literature/LookToTheWest'', due to having the point of divergence at around the time modern political parties were developing. The timeline even has its own terminology for the political axis: a metallic spectrum where left-wing is "cobrist" (copper), right-wing is "doradist" (gold), and centre is "argentist" (silver). As well as Britain and America having OTL Whigs, Tories and Liberals, there are:
** The Empire of North America starts has the Patriots (initially just pro-royalist, become doradist as party lines are drawn, but shift during the Great American War), the Constitutionalists (argentist, trying to be both the party of the Western frontiersmen and the party of the Southern rich) who split into the Whigs (pro-slavery) and the Neutral Party (argentist), the American Radical Party (cobrist), and the Supremacists (anti-slavery racists).

* The basic premise of ''Literature/TheRuinsOfAnAmericanPartySystem'' is the breakdown of the American two-party system in the 1920s due to the collapse of the Democrats, so of course quite a few of these show up. In addition to the Republicans sticking around as moderate-conservatives and the real life Socialists growing to significant strength on the left, there's:
** The Progressive Party (officially Progressive-Farmer-Labor), a merger of several real groups that never organized on a national level in OTL, emerges as the main center-left/left wing party.
** The Conservative Coalition, an alliance of the rump Democrats and the various state-level parties that splintered off from it in the early/mid-20s. It serves as the main Southern regional party until collapsing in the late 30s.
** The Commonwealth Party, a populist social conservative/fiscal liberal group founded by Huey Long. Initially just a state party of Louisiana, it grows to be the dominant party of the South through the 30s, and basically the only real part of consequence in the region by the 40s. However, the rise of the AP and internal ideological divisions cause the Commonwealth to start to fall apart, with the final nail being [[spoiler: Long being indicted for corruption]], which causes the party to collapse.
** The American Party. Not to be confused with several OTL parties of the same name, it's the successor to the Conservatives that emerges in the 40s, due to a combination of the faltering CC factions totally unifying to regain power in the South, and a Red Scare swinging a lot of the rest of the country back to the right wing. While initially just a challenge to the Commonwealth's power base in the South, it grows to nationwide strength on the support of those who don't think the Republicans are conservative enough.
** The People's Coalition, aka the "New Populists". After the Commonwealth collapses, Lyndon Johnson and other members of its left wing found this new organization, which is designed as an umbrella for various state-level populist parties, like the Mississippi Free Labor Party, the Arkansas Farmers League, and Texas' [[FunWithAcronyms Liberty, Bravery, and Justice]] Party.
* Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom has [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/list-political-parties-of-alternate-countries.249963/ entire]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-first-alternate-party-run-down-thread.439148/ forums]] dedicated to this trope.
* In ''Literature/NoW'', by late 2007, President [[spoiler:Santorum]]'s administration has grown so [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica hardline]] and [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] that more mainstream conservatives (led by Mitt Romney and Colin Powell) break away from the Republicans and form the Heartland Party, to provide an alternative.
* The ''Literature/NewDealCoalitionRetained'' timeline has a new Progressive Party founded by Eugene [=McCarthy=] in 1968, on a platform of progressivism, pacifism, and libertarianism. While it successfully becomes the main opposition in Vermont, it stays small on the national scale until the 80s, when the Democrats and Republicans evolve into differing types of conservatism and their respective liberal wings begin defecting to the Progressives. They may still be lagging behind the two big parties nationally at that point, but many states follow Vermont's example in the Progs taking the number two spot, thereby fully ensuring an American three-party system.

* ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' has the American Values Party, formed in 1960 by Joe [=McCarthy=], the Dixiecrats, and other reactionary figures in response to both the government's occult research and the black unrest in the South that it's allegedly fueling.
* In ''Podcast/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye'', [[QuirkyTown Connor Creek]] has three local parties:
** ​The [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Conservative Conservation]] Party
** ​The Liberal Use of Federal Filibuster Party
** ​The [[{{Pun}} EggCeptional]] Independent Party (which includes exactly 1 delegate)
* ''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':
** During the 1964 election, Farris Bryant's third party Dixiecrat campaign coalesces as the Heritage Independence Party. This results in his right-wing supporters being the ones who become known as hippies (or rather, "H.I.P.ies") in this timeline. In the 1972 election, this party suffers ideological schisms, with social conservatives staying under the HIP banner, fiscal conservatives and isolationists forming the Defense Party, and populists and segregationists forming the Country Party.
** In 1966, Timothy Leary founds the Natural Mind Party as a political extension of his philosophical beliefs.
** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist, which collapses within a decade), and the New Authority Party (officially listed as "third position" and which also eventually collapses). By the turn of the 21st century, a Progressive Party emerges as a new left-wing group.
** When Vietnam finally transitions to democracy after the period of military dictatorship following the defeat of the communists, the country's politics are dominated by the Peaceful Today and Tomorrow Party and the Heal and Rebuild Together Party.
** During the 1980 election, liberal Democrats and Republicans disgruntled by their parties picking conservative or right-leaning moderate candidates band together as a new Progressive Party (which appears to dissolve by the midpoint of the decade).
** During the late 60s/early 70s in Canada, the New Democratic and Social Credit parties merge to form the Progressive Tomorrow Party. And during the 90s, several small populist parties (Action, Alberta, and Frontier) merge into the Action Alliance.
** The post-Gaddafi parties of Libya are Libyan Movement (sympathetic but skeptical of the West), Independent Pathway (pro-West but anti-US), and National Identity (conservative "third way").
** The Liberty Union is a Vermont-only far-left party that appears in the 90s and gains nationwide significance when it manages to elect a federal Senator.
** In disgust at the Republicans going with a moderate candidate in the 2008 election, Bernie Goetz runs a right-wing populist campaign under the banner of the Boulder Party, which is used by like-minded individuals in later elections.
** A Boulder Party splinter group called the Strong Party forms for the 2012 election, collapses afterwards, and reforms by the 2016 election as the Bigfoot Party (Truth Party in some states), running on a platform demanding full government transparency in regards to various conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs.
* ''Literature/TheFireNeverDies'': The post-[[SecondAmericanCivilWar SACW]] American political system has political parties which either only exists because of the revolution, or had existed before as in Real Life but had been radically altered by the revolution. Chief among them include (as of the 1920 Elections):
** The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is the leading party of the revolution and the nation, and at the start included leading Socialists such as Eugene Debs, Billy Haywood, Mother Jones and William Trautmann. They have a more moderate and pragmatic platform for socialist America among the mainstream socialist parties.
** The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), headed by the likes of Leon Bronstein, Vincent St. John and Emma Goldman, is much less unified but much more revolutionary/radical than the SLP, calling for an openly confrontational foreign policy, the complete restructuring of American government, and more extensive series of postwar trials.
** The Progressive Party is headed by the likes of Hiram Johnson and Sam Rayburn, consisting of politicians who are not originally socialist or still refrained from socialism, but had made their peace with the new socialist america they had found themselves in. They represents small cooperatives against big unions and favours the continued existence of a free market with within a market socialist economic framework.
** The Federalist Party, consisting of non-socialist figures from pre-revolution who remained like Clarence Edward [=McCartney=] and Calvin Coolidge, is the most openly reactionary and hostile to the socialist revolution (though not to the point of sedition), condemning the 'excesses' of the revolution and calling for restoration of the old flag, capital and traditions of old America.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s one world government on Earth is run by a slew of these, most of which are {{pun}}s based on the names of real parties and lobbyist groups in American politics. These include (but are not limited to) The Antisocialists, the National Raygun Association, Voter Apathy Party, the Rainbow Whigs, the Brain Slug Party, and the Green Party (whose members are literally green). Republican and Democratic parties are known as the Fingerlicans and the Tastycrats. Richard Nixon and his 20th century staff remain Republicans, however.
** Later on, Chris Travers runs against Nixon on the [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats Thundercratic]] ticket.