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Brief history and overview

Before the mid-19th century, politics in the United Kingdom was dominated by the Whigs and the Tories. These were not political parties in the modern sense but somewhat loose alliances of interests and individuals. The Whigs included many of the leading aristocratic dynasties committed to the Protestant succession, and later drew support from elements of the emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants, while the Tories were associated with the landed gentry, the Church of England and the Church of Scotland.

By the mid 19th century, the Tories had evolved into the Conservative Party, and the Whigs had evolved into the Liberal Party. The parliament was presided over by a speaker, who handled proceedings. The concept of right and left came originally from France, where the Right supported a smaller state with less influence on the lives of the public, the Left advocated a larger state with more influence on the lives of the public. In the late 19th century the Liberal Party began to lean towards the left, and the seating in the house of commons began to reflect this: Right of the speaker were those supporting right wing politics, the Conservatives; left of the speaker were those supporting Left wing politics, the Liberals. Liberal Unionists split off from the Liberals over Irish Home Rule and moved closer to the Conservatives over time.

The Liberals and Conservatives dominated the political scene until the 1920s, when the Liberal Party declined in popularity and suffered a long stream of resignations. It was replaced as the main anti-Tory opposition party by the newly emerging Labour Party, which represented an alliance between the labour movement, organised trades unions and various socialist societies.

Since then the Conservative and Labour parties have dominated British politics, and have alternated in government ever since. However, the UK is not quite a two-party system as other parties have significant support. The Liberal Democrats were the third largest party until the 2015 general election when they were overtaken by the Scottish National Party in terms of seats and UK political party membership, and by the UK Independence Party in terms of votes.

The UK's First Past the Post electoral system leaves small parties disadvantaged on a UK-wide scale. It can, however, allow parties with concentrations of supporters in the constituent countries to flourish. In the 2015 election there was widespread controversy[1][2][3] when UKIP and the Green Party of England and Wales received 4.9 million votes[4] (12.6% of the total vote for UKIP and 3.8% for the Greens) yet only gained one seat each in the House of Commons. After that election, UKIP, the Liberal Democrats, and the Green Party of England and Wales, together with its Scottish and Northern Ireland affiliated parties, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru, delivered a petition signed by 477,000[5] people to Downing Street demanding electoral reform.

Scottish Parliament debating chamber

Since 1997, proportional representation-based voting systems have been adopted for elections to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the London Assembly and the UK's seats in the European Parliament. In these bodies, other parties have had success.

Traditionally political parties have been private organisations with no official recognition by the state. The Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 changed that by creating a register of parties.

Membership of political parties has been in decline in the UK since the 1950s, falling by over 65% from 1983 (4% of the electorate) to 2005 (1.3%).[6]

The start of political parties

The Electoral Commission's Register of Political Parties[7] lists the details of parties registered to fight elections in the United Kingdom, including their registered name. Under current electoral law, including the Registration of Political Parties Act, the Electoral Administration Act 2006, and the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, only registered party names can be used on ballot papers by those wishing to fight elections. Candidates who do not belong to a registered party can use "independent" or no label at all.

As of 3 August 2015 the Electoral Commission showed the number of registered political parties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland as 492.[8]

Parliamentary Parties

Two parties dominate politics in the House of Commons. Each one operates throughout Great Britain (only the Conservative and Unionist Party stands candidates in Northern Ireland). Most of the British Members of the European Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales represent one of these parties:

Party Political Position Leader House of Commons Scottish Parliament National Assembly for Wales Northern Ireland Assembly London Assembly European Parliament Local Government Membership UK Vote Share % (2017 General Election)[9]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"| Conservative and Unionist Party Centre-right Theresa May 317 31 12 [Note 1] 0 8 19 9,234[10] Decrease 124,000[11] (Does not publish official membership numbers, data based on 3rd party sources) 42.4
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party Centre-left Jeremy Corbyn 262 23 [Note 2] 29 [Note 3] — 12 20 6,470[10] Increase 552,000 [9] 40.0
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Scottish National Party Centre-left Nicola Sturgeon 35 63 — — — 2 430[10] Steady 118,000[12] 3.0
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Centre Vince Cable 12 5 1 — 1 1 1,815[10] Increase100,500 [13] 7.4
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" | Democratic Unionist Party Right-wing Arlene Foster 10 — — 28 — 1 104 Not Published 0.9
style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color" | Sinn Féin † Left-wing Mary Lou McDonald 7 — — 27 — 1 [Note 4] 105 Not Published 0.7
style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" | Plaid Cymru - Party of Wales Centre-left to left-wing Leanne Wood 4[9] — 11 — — 1 203[10] Decrease8,000 [14] 0.5
style="background-color: Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Green Party of England and Wales Left-wing Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley (job share) 1 — — — 2 3 187[10] Decrease41,073 [15] 1.6
style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color" | Social Democratic and Labour Party Centre-left Colum Eastwood 0 — — 12 — 0 66 Not Published 0.3
style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" | Ulster Unionist Party Centre-right Robin Swann 0 — — 10 — 1 87 Not Published 0.3
style="background-color: Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | UK Independence Party Right-wing Gerard Batten 0 0 5 0 2 20 345[10] Decrease21,200[16] 1.8
style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" | Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Centre Naomi Long 0 — — 8 — 0 32 Not Published 0.2
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" | Scottish Green Party Centre-left to left-wing
Patrick Harvie and Maggie Chapman 0 6 — — — 0 19[10] 8,120 [17] (December 2016)
style="background-color: Template:Green Party in Northern Ireland/meta/color" | Green Party in Northern Ireland Centre-left Steven Agnew 0 — — 2 — 0 4[10] 406 [18] (May 2015)
style="background-color: Template:Traditional Unionist Voice/meta/color" | Traditional Unionist Voice Right-wing Jim Allister 0 — — 1 — 0 13 Not Published 0.1
style="background-color: Template:People Before Profit/meta/color" | People Before Profit Left-wing to far-left Eamonn McCann 0 — — 1 — 0 1 Not Published

Party descriptions

Party Description
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"| Conservative and Unionist Party A party loosely divided into three categories: The Thatcherites or Conservative Way Forward, who strongly support a free market and tend to be Eurosceptic; the economically moderate, often more pro-European and socially liberal One Nation Conservatives, and the socially conservative, deeply Eurosceptic Cornerstone Group.
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party A big tent party, broadly centre-left with roots in the trade union movement.
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Scottish National Party Scottish nationalist and social democratic party which supports of Scottish Independence and membership of the European Union.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Liberal and social liberal. The party's main two branches are the social-liberal grouping, and the 'Orange Book' grouping, which supports classical economic liberalism. Strongly supports membership of the European Union.
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" | Democratic Unionist Party Unionist and national conservative party in Northern Ireland. Socially conservative with close links to Protestantism.
style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color" | Sinn Féin † Irish republican party that supports the unification of the island of Ireland as a 32-county Irish republic.
style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" | Plaid Cymru - Party of Wales Social-democratic and Welsh nationalist party in favour of Welsh independence.
style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color" | Social Democratic and Labour Party Social-democratic and Irish nationalist party supporting a United Ireland.
style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" | Ulster Unionist Party Unionist party in Northern Ireland, conservative but with liberal factions.
style="background-color: Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Green Party of England and Wales Green political party that favours eco-socialism,[19] environmentalism,[19] sustainability[19] and non-violence.[19]
style="background-color: Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | UK Independence Party Eurosceptic and right-wing populist party. Favours national sovereignty, direct democracy, social conservatism and economic liberalism.
style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" | Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Liberal and centrist political party in Northern Ireland.
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" | Scottish Green Party Green political party in favour of Scottish independence and Scottish republicanism.
style="background-color: Template:Green Party in Northern Ireland/meta/color" | Green Party in Northern Ireland Green political and nonsectarian party in Northern Ireland.
style="background-color: Template:Traditional Unionist Voice/meta/color" | Traditional Unionist Voice Strongly social and national conservative unionist party in Northern Ireland, opposed to the St Andrews Agreement.
style="background-color: Template:People Before Profit/meta/color" | People Before Profit Socialist party.

† Sinn Féin MPs do not take their seats in the UK House of Commons as they refuse to swear allegiance to the Crown, nor recognise Westminster's right to legislate for any part of Ireland.

Local Government

Principal authorities

Party Ideology Local authorities Leader Councillors
style="background-color: Template:Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell/meta/color" | Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell Localism Epsom and Ewell, Surrey Keith Lugton 34[20][21]
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Mansfield Independent Forum Localism Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Martin Wright 19[22]
style="background-color: Template:Thurrock Independents/meta/color" | Thurrock Independents Localism Thurrock Graham Snell 17
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Canvey Island Independent Party Localism Castle Point, Essex David Blackwell 16[23][24]
style="background-color: Template:Residents for Uttlesford/meta/color" | Residents for Uttlesford Localism Uttlesford John Lodge 11[25]
style="background-color: Template:Havering Residents Association/meta/color" | Havering Residents Association Localism Havering Ray Morgon 11
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK, 1989)/meta/color" | Liberal Party Liberalism, Euroscepticism Liverpool, Mid Devon, Peterborough, Ryedale Steve Radford 10[26]
style="background-color: Template:East Devon Alliance/meta/color" | East Devon Alliance Localism, transparency[27] East Devon Ben Ingham 9[28]
Derwentside Independents Localism Durham Watts Stelling 7[29] (+5 parish cllrs)[30]
style="background-color: Template:Llais Gwynedd/meta/color" | Llais Gwynedd Regionalism Gwynedd Owain Williams 6[31]
Runnymede Independent Residents' Group Localism Runnymede 6
style="background-color: Template:Tower Hamlets First/meta/color" | People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets Social democracy Tower Hamlets Rabina Khan 6
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Spennymoor Independents Localism Durham 5[10]
style="background-color: Template:Progressive Unionist Party/meta/color" | Progressive Unionist Party Unionism, democratic socialism Belfast, Causeway Coast and Glens Billy Hutchinson 4[32][33]
style="background-color: Template:Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern/meta/color" | Independent Community and Health Concern Single-issue politics Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, Shropshire Dr Richard Taylor 4[10]
style="background-color: Template:People Against Bureaucracy/meta/color" | People Against Bureaucracy Localism Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 4[34][35]
style="background-color: Template:Mebyon Kernow/meta/color" | Mebyon Kernow Cornish nationalism Cornwall Dick Cole 4[10]
Barnsley Independent Group Localism Barnsley Phillip Birkinshaw 4[36]
style="background-color: Template:Guildford Greenbelt Group/meta/color" | Guildford Greenbelt Group Localism Guildford Susan Parker 3[37]
style="background-color: Template:North East Party/meta/color" | North East Party Regionalism Durham 3[38]
style="background-color: Template:Middlewich First/meta/color" | Middlewich First Localism Cheshire East James Basford 3[39] (+5 parish cllrs)
style="background-color: Template:Putting Hartlepool First/meta/color " | Putting Hartlepool First Localism Hartlepool Kelly Atkinson 3[40]
Morecambe Bay Independents Localism Lancaster Roger Dennison 2[41]
Henley Residents Group Localism South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire 2[42] (+6 parish clllrs)
style="background-color: Template:British National Party/meta/color" | British National Party Neo-fascism Pendle Adam Walker 1[43] (+3 parish cllrs[44])
style="background-color: Template:West Dunbartonshire Community Party/meta/color" | West Dunbartonshire Community Party Localism West Dunbartonshire Drew MacEoghainn 1[45]
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Lincolnshire Independents Localism Lincolnshire Marianne Overton 1[46]
Renew Pro-Europeanism Wandsworth Chris Coghlan 1[47]

Civil parishes and community councils

Party Political Position Leader Councillors
style="background-color: Template:Independents for Frome/meta/color" | Independents for Frome Localism Mel Usher 17[48]
style="background-color: Template:Devizes Guardians/meta/color" | Devizes Guardians Conservationism, Localism Nigel Carter 11[49]
style="background-color: Template:Official Monster Raving Loony Party/meta/color" | Official Monster Raving Loony Party Satire Howling Laud Hope 6
style="background-color: Template:Yorkshire First/meta/color" | Yorkshire Party Regionalism Stewart Arnold 5[50]
style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic Party (UK)/meta/color" | Social Democratic Party Social democracy Peter Johnson 2
style="background-color: Template:Pirate Party UK/meta/color" | Pirate Party Pirate politics Harley Faggetter 1

No elected representation

This is a list of notable minor parties. Many parties are registered with the Electoral Commission but do not qualify for this list as they have not received significant independent coverage.

Miscellaneous minor UK parties

Minor UK left-wing and far-left parties

Main article: British left

Minor UK right-wing and far-right parties

Minor UK centrist and pro-European parties

Minor UK religious parties

Minor English parties

Main article: Politics of England
See also: List of political parties in London

Minor Scottish parties

Main article: Politics of Scotland

Minor Welsh parties

Main article: Politics of Wales

Minor Northern Irish parties

Main article: Demography and politics of Northern Ireland

Joke/satirical parties

See Joke political parties in the United Kingdom

Defunct and historical parties in the United Kingdom

Defunct English parties

Defunct Scottish parties

Defunct Welsh parties

Defunct Northern Irish parties

Defunct UK religious parties

  • ProLife Alliance. Still operating as a pressure group, ProLife deregistered as a political party in 2004.[57]

Defunct left-wing and far-left parties

Defunct right-wing and far-right parties

Defunct joke/satirical parties

Defunct single-issue Eurosceptic parties

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Including 1 Independent Conservative.
  2. ^ Including 8 as Lab Co-op.
  3. ^ Including 11 as Lab Co-op.
  4. ^ Sinn Féin has one MEP from a UK constituency and three others from the Republic of Ireland.

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