Talk:One-party state

As of August 2024, Hungary and Russia are certainly De facto one-party states. Bearian (talk) 13:53, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Hungary is not. Datawikiperson (talk) 08:09, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

The article lists present de facto one-party states, but is it worth asking if any historic de facto one-party state has existed in the past?

Mexico under the Institutional Revolutionary Party may be an example. Is it, and are the any other former de facto one-party states? If former de facto one-party states have existed, could these be listed? Luokehao (talk) 09:27, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

We have discussed the IRP before. As you can see above, I am uneasy about these definitions. Previously, I think people said Mexico under the IRP was a dominant-party state. It is true the IRP was eventually defeated. But equally the CPSU in the USSR was defeated, and I believe that there are still communist parties in Russia, but they don't get anywhere much in the elections. Then again, Yeltsin and Putin's elections are known to be rigged, so what does that tell you? In the GDR, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany coexisted with other parties. Then it lost power with the fall of the Berlin Wall and became the Party of Democratic Socialism which then became Die Linke (the Left), a minor party which still exists in the Bundestag. So I would argue that the IRP and the Socialist Unity Party were similar. Both held sway over their respective countries for decades; both lost power but continued to contest elections. Therefore they should both come under the same rubric. Should it be dominant-party or one-party? I think that's in the eye of the beholder. But definitely IRP should be listed here somewhere. It's crazy that it keeps on being rejected.--Jack Upland (talk) 18:06, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

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Article Politics of Singapore states, along with multiple references, that Singapore "has been described as being a de facto one-party state under the PAP". Should Singapore be then added to the list of one party states as there has been one party ruling the country for over 65 years? Currently it looks like an inconsistency across articles. Karmelki90 (talk) 13:42, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it should be included.--Jack Upland (talk) 04:11, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

I have started an entry for it, however it could do with more detail, particularly around governmental methods of continuing the one-party dominance, which I don't have sources for to hand. (I'll add if/when I find them) Two pieces of toast (talk) 14:04, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

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In the first section, the article links to information on the population, an article that doesn't exist and also doesn't look like a typo/obvious error. Was this intended to link to something? - DaBOXEN (talk) 17:48, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

The former one-party-state of Transcaucasia is in the list twice, with the exact same dates and text. ~2026-57969-4 (talk) 10:58, 27 January 2026 (UTC)