List of political parties in the United States
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This list of political parties in the United States identifies notable political parties in the United States, both past and present, both major and minor. Notes:
- The list does not include independents, whose notable election runs can be found at list of independent performances in United States elections.
- Voter registration numbers below should be taken as a lower bound, because not all states allow public access to voter registration data.
- Abbreviations come from the parties themselves and from state ballots used in the most recent elections.[1] Not all parties have abbreviations.
- Ballot access comes from a variety of sources including Ballotpedia,[2] The Green Papers,[3] and various state Secretaries of State.[4]
- The "political positions" and "ideology" for each party merely repeat the main article on that political party. For example, if the Democratic Party (United States) page states "center to center-left" and "liberalism", this page will repeat that.
- For political parties in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the US, see List of political parties in Puerto Rico.
Active parties
Major parties
Both major parties below have ballot access in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
| Party | Political position[a] | Ideology[a] | Registered voters (July 2026)[5] |
Presidential vote (2024) | Legislators (federal and state) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral | Popular[b] | Senate[9] | House | State legislators[10] | ||||||
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Republican Party (R; GOP) 1854– |
Right-wing to far-right | Right-wing populism American neo-nationalism |
37,877,051 (29.80%) | 312 / 538 |
77,302,580 (49.8%) |
53 / 100 |
219 / 435 |
4,031 / 7,383 | |
  |
Democratic Party (D; DEM) 1828– |
Center to center-left | Liberalism (US) | 44,417,573
(34.96%) |
226 / 538 |
75,017,613 (48.32%) |
47 / 100[c] |
214 / 435 |
3,271 / 7,383 | |
Third parties
Represented in state legislatures
The third parties below have some affiliated members in state legislatures. For political parties in Puerto Rico's legislature, see List of political parties in Puerto Rico.
| Party | Political position[a] | Ideology[a] | Presidential election | General elections | State and local electeds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballot access [3] |
Votes [b] |
Ballot access [2] |
Reg. voters [11] |
State legislators [10] |
Local legislators and executives [d] | |||||
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Working Families Party (WFP) 1998– |
Center-left to left-wing | Left-wing populism Progressivism |
3 / 51[e] |
4,619,195 (2.99%)[e] |
3 / 51[2] |
67,889 (0.05%) |
159 / 7,383[f] |
||
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Vermont Progressive Party (VPP) 1993– |
Left-wing | Democratic socialism Social democracy Progressivism (US) Environmentalism |
Vermont | n/a[g] | Vermont | n/a[h] | 12 / 180[i] |
10 / 636[i] | |
 |
Forward Party (FWD) 2022– |
Center | Populism (US) Reformism Decentralization |
0 / 51[j] |
0 (0%)[j] |
6 / 51[2] |
4,808 (0%) |
1 / 7,383[15] |
28 / 188,409[15] | |
Represented in local governments
The third parties below have affiliated members in local legislatures (such as city council or county commission) or local executives (such as mayor). Only "general purpose" governments are included, while "specific purpose" governments (like school board or fire district) are excluded.
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Other parties with ballot access
The third parties below have ballot access in at least one state and are not represented in a national office, state/territorial legislature or county office.
Multi-state
The following third parties are active in multiple states.
| Party | Political position[a] | Ideology[a] | Presidential election | General elections | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballot access [3] |
Votes [b] |
Ballot access [2] |
Reg. voters [11] | |||||
 |
No Labels 2010– |
Center | Bipartisanship | 4 / 50[24] |
No candidate | 7 / 50 |
55,038 | |
 |
Legal Marijuana Now Party (LMN) 1998– |
Single-issue | Cannabis legalization | No candidate | No candidate | 2 / 50 |
9,967 | |
| Working Class Party (WCP) 2016– |
Left-wing | Progressivism Socialism |
No candidate | No candidate | 2 / 50 |
3,751 | ||
 |
Approval Voting Party (AVP) 2016– |
Single-issue | Electoral reform | 1 / 50 |
5,173 | 1 / 50 |
2,196 | |
| Liberal Party USA (LPU) 2022– |
Center | Classical liberalism | 1 / 50 |
15,040 | 1 / 50 |
859 (0.0006%) | ||
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Natural Law Party (NLP) 1992– |
Single-issue | Transcendental Meditation Civil libertarianism Environmentalism |
32 / 50[m] |
754,980 (0.49%)[m] | 1 / 50 |
5,271 | |
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Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) 2004– |
Far-left | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
19 / 50 |
154,538 (0.100%)[n] | 1 / 50 |
2,181 | |
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Unity Party 2004– |
Center | No candidate | No candidate | 1 / 50[o] |
3,181 | ||
Single-state
The following third parties are only active in one state.
Active parties without ballot access
The following parties remain active but do not have official ballot access in any state.[2]
Multi-state
| Party | Year founded |
Political position[a] |
Ideology[a] | Registered voters (2025)[11] |
Presidential vote (2024)[b] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform Party | 1995 | Center | Radical centrism[26] | 2,696 | 754,980 (0.49%)[m] | ||
| Socialist Workers Party (SWP) |
1938 | Far-left | 795 | 4,118 (0.003%) | |||
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Prohibition Party (P; PRO) |
1869 | Syncretic Social: Center-right Fiscal: Center-left |
22 | 1,144 (0.0007%) | ||
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Socialist Equality Party (SEP) |
1966 | Far-left | Unknown | 4,638 (0.003%) | ||
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Socialist Party USA (SOC; SPUSA) |
1973 | Left-wing | 9,062 | 361 (0.0002%) | ||
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United States Pirate Party (USPP) |
2006 | Syncretic | 721 | 914 (0.0006%) | ||
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American Communist Party (ACP) |
2024 | Syncretic | Unknown | |||
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Progressive Labor Party (PLP) |
1962 | Far-left | Unknown | |||
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Socialist Alternative (SAlt; SA) |
1986 | Far-left | Unknown | |||
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Workers World Party (WWP) |
1959 | Far-left | Unknown | |||
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Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) |
1966 | Far-left | Unknown | |||
| American Freedom Party (AFP) |
2009 | Far-right | Unknown | ||||
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Socialist Action (SAct) |
1983 | Far-left | Unknown | |||
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Transhumanist Party | 2014 | Unknown | ||||
| Christian Liberty Party (CLP) |
2000 | Right-wing | Unknown | ||||
Single-state
Historical parties
Held national office or elected to Congress
Multi-state political parties
Single-state political parties
Political parties in the unincorporated territories
| Party | Created | Disbanded | Ideology[a] | Other names | Mergers/Splits | Territory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant Party | 2001 | 2013[135] | Populism | Merged into: Republican Party | Northern Mariana Islands | ||
| Popular Party (Guam) | 1949 | 1964 | Commercial Party | Merged into: Democratic Party | Guam | ||
| Territorial Party (Guam) | 1956 | 1966 | Merged into: Republican Party | Guam | |||
| Popular Party (Northern Mariana Islands)[136][137] | 1978 | Merged into: Democratic Party | Northern Mariana Islands | ||||
| Territorial Party (Northern Mariana Islands)[137] | Merged into: Republican Party | Northern Mariana Islands | |||||
Non-electoral organizations
Active
These organizations generally do not nominate candidates for election, but some of them have in the past; they otherwise function similarly to political parties.
Historical
These historical organizations did not officially nominate candidates for election but may have endorsed or supported campaigns; they otherwise functioned similarly to political parties.
Party registration
Officially recognized parties in states are not guaranteed to have ballot access, membership numbers of some parties with ballot access are not tracked, and vice versa. Not all of these parties or voters are active, and not all states record voter registration by party. Boxes in gray mean that the specific party's registration is not reported.
| State/DC | As of | DEM | REP | LIB | GRN | CST | FWD | RFM | WFP | Others | Unaffiliated | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | September 3, 2026[150] | 69,894 | 142,184 | 6,067 | – | 767 | – | 5,696[v] | 381,024[w] | 605,632 | ||
| Arizona | July 21, 2026[151] | 1,210,510 | 1,523,886 | 30,415 | 5,312 | – | 1,536,431[x] | – | 4,306,554 | |||
| Arkansas | July 17, 2026[152] | 84,043 | 153,227 | 744 | 124 | – | 4[y] | 1,592,912 | 1,831,054 | |||
| California | May 18, 2026[153] | 10,397,692 | 5,779,786 | 231,107 | 113,790 | 216 | 1,126 | – | 1,693,001[z] | 5,284,968 | 23,155,447 | |
| Colorado | Jan 1, 2026[154] | 997,725 | 906,396 | 34,926 | 8,119 | 11,165 | 407 | – | 40,182[aa] | 1,997,007 | 3,995,927 | |
| Connecticut | August 7, 2026[155] | 789,851 | 483,647 | – | 33,130[ab] | 927,889 | 2,234,517 | |||||
| Delaware | December 1, 2025[156] | 333,659 | 201,648 | 1,848 | 782 | 222 | – | 47 | 313 | 18,209[ac] | 243,064 | 801,001 |
| District of Columbia | August 31, 2026[157] | 343,264 | 22,240 | – | 4,113 | – | 2,514 | 77,286 | 449,417 | |||
| Florida | August 31, 2026[158] | 4,098,139 | 5,649,410 | – | 505,914 | 3,326,661 | 13,580,124 | |||||
| Idaho | September 1, 2026[159] | 122,021 | 646,820 | – | 246,923 | 1,030,522 | ||||||
| Iowa | July 2, 2026[160] | 527,675 | 711,587 | – | 555,309 | 1,794,571 | ||||||
| Kansas | November 6, 2025[161] | 495,691 | 897,243 | 23,772 | – | 6,901[ad] | 575,983 | 1,999,608 | ||||
| Kentucky | August 1, 2026[162] | 1,371,014 | 1,624,505 | 15,920 | 2,618 | 1,646 | – | 248 | – | 185,637[ae] | 180,313 | 3,491,005 |
| Louisiana | September 1, 2026[163] | 1,059,085 | 1,066,642 | 15,839 | 2,583 | 154 | – | 823 | – | 24,516 | 823,028 | 2,973,271 |
| Maine | March 7, 2026[164] | 305,364 | 273,632 | 5,680 | 30,687 | – | 282,314 | 897,677 | ||||
| Maryland | August 2026[165] | 2,222,557 | 1,014,245 | – | 6,227 | – | 74,240[af] | 909,180 | 4,322,671 | |||
| Massachusetts | February 2, 2025[166] | 1,298,603 | 423,387 | – | 49,401 | 3,254,435 | 5,025,826 | |||||
| Nebraska | September 1, 2026[167] | 327,935 | 619,984 | 17,475 | – | 10,802[ag] | 282,473 | 1,258,669 | ||||
| Nevada | September 1, 2026[168] | 675,096 | 659,956 | 18,042 | – | 142,964[ah] | 997,438 | 2,493,496 | ||||
| New Hampshire | August 3, 2026[169] | 247,069 | 299,976 | – | 351,815 | 898,860 | ||||||
| New Jersey | September 1, 2026[170] | 2,569,509 | 1,686,473 | 24,228 | 11,311 | 11,281 | – | 1,338 | – | 25,933[ai] | 2,379,398 | 6,709,471 |
| New Mexico | August 31, 2026[171] | 575,726 | 444,654 | – | 27,205 | 403,396 | 1,450,981 | |||||
| New York | February 20, 2026[172] | 6,445,605 | 2,994,839 | – | 63,467 | 493,859[aj] | 3,410,288 | 13,408,058 | ||||
| North Carolina | March 3, 2026[173] | 292,659 | 341,638 | 5,879 | 640 | – | 407,759 | 1,048,575 | ||||
| Oklahoma | August 3, 2026[174] | 616,132 | 1,294,390 | 23,783 | – | 500,475 | 2,434,780 | |||||
| Oregon | September 11, 2026[175] | 981,710 | 734,773 | 18,713 | 7,718 | 1,462 | – | 8,364 | 159,798[ak] | 1,305,369 | 3,087,953 | |
| Pennsylvania | September 14, 2026[176] | 3,850,632 | 3,634,026 | – | 1,508,675 | 8,993,333 | ||||||
| Rhode Island | September 1, 2026[177] | 235,187 | 100,348 | – | 359,486 | 695,021 | ||||||
| South Dakota | September 1, 2026[178] | 134,453 | 330,399 | 2,788 | – | 1,003 | 156,019 | 624,662 | ||||
| Utah | September 14, 2026[179] | 249,132 | 913,163 | 18,380 | 1,195 | 6,706 | 2,195 | – | 94,720[al] | 509,924 | 1,777,146 | |
| West Virginia | August 31, 2026[180] | 326,023 | 525,194 | 10,828 | 2,788 | 239 | – | 34,732 | 305,730 | 1,205,534 | ||
| Wyoming | September 1, 2026[181] | 30,690 | 217,895 | 1,758 | – | 552 | – | 2,259 | 25,314 | 278,468 | ||
Parties by total number of registered voters
| Party | Membership | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 44,417,573 | 34.96% | |
| Independent | 41,198,951 | 32.42% | |
| Republican Party | 37,877,051 | 29.80% | |
| Other | 2,420,701 | 1.90% | |
| Libertarian Party | 695,779 | 0.55% | |
| Green Party | 255,119 | 0.20% | |
| Constitution Party | 145,511 | 0.11% | |
| Working Families Party | 69,363 | 0.05% | |
| Forward Party | 6,068 | 0.00% | |
See also
- Political parties in the United States
- Party system
- Political party strength in U.S. states
- Two-party system
- State and territorial parties:
- Other political party lists:
Notes
- The "political positions" and "ideology" for each party merely repeat the main article on that political party. For example, if the Democratic Party (United States) page states "center to center-left" and "liberalism", this page will repeat that.
- Presidential vote comes from two sources: For major parties, the Federal Election Commission provides the final, official popular vote total and electoral college vote total.[6] See also the New York Times breakdown.[7] For minor parties, The Green Pages provides a breakdown for all parties, including write-ins and electoral fusion tickets, based on preliminary results.[8]
- Includes two Independent Senators who both caucus with the Democratic Party.[9]
- In the 2024 United States Presidential election, WFP endorsed Kamala Harris. In Oregon, Harris appeared on a single ballot line with both the Democratic and Working Families parties listed. In New York and Connecticut, Harris appeared on a separate ballot line with votes counting in a fusion ticket.[13]
- The Working Families Party uses electoral fusion to cross-endorse progressive Democratic Party candidates in Connecticut, New York, and Oregon, running on a Dem-WFP fusion ballot. No WFP candidate for state legislature has been elected on a WFP line alone, but some local candidates have been elected on the WFP line alone. This count includes all Dem-WFP state legislature electeds in CT, NY, and OR. For additional details:
- CT: Ballotpedia (House 47, Senate 15), see also 2024 Connecticut House of Representatives election and 2024 Connecticut Senate election.
- NY: Ballotpedia (Assembly 50, Senate 28), see also 2024 New York State Assembly election and 2024 New York State Senate election.
- OR: Ballotpedia (House 16, Senate 3), see also 2024 Oregon House of Representatives election and 2024 Oregon State Senate election.
- VPP did not run or endorse a candidate in the 2024 Presidential election.
- Vermont does not register voters by party.
- The Vermont Progressive Party uses electoral fusion to cross-endorse progressive Democratic Party candidates in Vermont, running on a Dem-VPP fusion ballot. No VPP candidate for state legislature has been elected on a VPP line alone, but most local candidates have been elected on the VPP line alone. This count includes all Dem-VPP and VPP-only electeds:
- VT state legislature: VPP lists 4 state senators and 8 state representatives,[182] Ballotpedia lists 4 state senators and 9 state representatives. Troy Headrick switched from VPP to Independent in 2025. See also 2024 Vermont House of Representatives election and 2024 Vermont Senate election.
- VT local elected positions: VPP lists 10 city council and selectboard elected officials.[182]
- The Constitution Party had two candidates running for the 2024 presidential election—one which was nominated by the party and one which was nominated by the Constitution Party dissidents.
- CPUSA has not run federal candidates on the Communist Party ballot line since 1988.
- In an example of electoral fusion, the Alliance Party, American Independent Party, Natural Law Party, and Reform Party all nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who later dropped out. However, he remained on the ballot in other states.
- The Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Peace and Freedom Party, and South Carolina Workers Party all collectively endorsed Claudia de la Cruz. De le Cruz is a PSL member.
- Disaffiliated
- The Conservative Party of New York endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 elections. Using an electoral fusion ballot line, people voted for Trump on the Conservative line.
- The Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party, Oregon Progressive Party, and United Citizens Party endorsed Cornel West. Votes counted in a fusion ticket.
- South Carolina does not register voters by political party.
- Adopted present name in 2024
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Green Party of Alaska – 1,458
- Reform Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Party – 36
- Prohibition Party – 2
- Conservative Party USA – 85
- Alaska Neighbors Party – 19
- Alaskan Party – 44
- Veterans Party of Alaska – 1,462
- UCES' Clowns Party – 258
- The Future Generation Party – 5
- American Party of Alaska – 5
- Nonpartisan – 82,002
- Undeclared – 299,022
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Arizona Independent Party – 46,246
- Other – 1,490,185
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Nonpartisan Judicial – 3
- Other – 1
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- American Independent Party – 965,068
- Peace and Freedom Party – 154,305
- Common Sense Party – 13,410
- American Solidarity Party – 729
- Peace Party – 80
- Unknown – 88,047
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- No Labels – 28,693
- Approval Voting – 4,871
- Colorado Center – 3,675
- Unity – 2,943
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Independent Party of Delaware – 12,398
- No Labels – 1,445
- Conservative Party of Delaware – 881
- Liberal Party of Delaware – 787
- American – 576
- American Delta – 350
- We the People – 198
- Socialist Workers – 136
- Mandalorians – 124
- Blue Enigma – 74
- Natural Law – 75
- Other – 1,165
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- No Labels Kansas – 5,955
- United Kansas – 946
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Other – 184,590
- Socialist Workers – 742
- Kentucky Party – 305
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Working Class Party – 5,207
- Other – 69,033
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Legal Marijuana Now Party – 10,680
- Nebraska Working People – 18
- America First – 104
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Independent American Party – 102,692
- Other – 40,272
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Conservative Party – 13,116
- Socialist Party – 7,577
- Natural Law Party – 5,240
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Conservative Party – 169,313
- Others – 324,546
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Constitution Party of Oregon – 1,462
- No Labels – 137,972
- Oregon Progressive Party – 4,328
- We The People – 171
- Other – 15,865
- "Other" political affiliations listed as follows:
- Independent American Party – 94,720