List of ideological symbols

Colours

• red - Socialism
• blue - Conservatism
• green - Environmentalism
• black - Anarchism
• Orange - Liberalism

Colours (U.S.)

• red - conservatives and the U.S. Republican party
• blue - liberals and the U.S. Democratic Party
• Green - Environmentalism, and often Liberalism, and the U.S. Green Party
• purple - politicaly mixed or moderate areas of the country
• white - (sometimes) third parties (other than the Greens) and independent candidates and voters

Directions

• left - Communism, Revolution
• centre - Moderate socialism, Labourism, Social Democracy, Reformist
• right - Conservatism, Capitalism

Icons (worldwide)

• swastika - Nazism
• hammer, sickle, and star - Communism

Icons (India)

• lotus - Bharatiya Janata Party
• ears of maize and sickle - Communist Party of India
• hand - Indian National Congress
• clock - Nationalist Congress Party
• elephant - Bahujan Samaj Party (with the exception of the states of Assam and Sikkim where certain state parties use the elephant)
• bicycle - Telugu Desam Party (Andhra Pradesh)
• elephant - Asom Gana Parishad (Assam)
• arrow - Janata Dal (United) (Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Nagaland)
• hurricane lamp - Rashtriya Janata Dal (Bihar, Jharkhand)
• spectacles - Indian National Lok Dal (Haryana)
• telephone - Himachal Vikas Congress (Himachal Pradesh)
• plough - Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (Jammu and Kashmir)
• ink pot and pen - People's Democratic Party (Jammu and Kashmir)
• bow and arrow - Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha (Jharkhand)
• lady farmer carrying paddy on her head - Janata Dal (Secular) (Karnataka)
• two leaves - Kerala Congress (Mani faction) (Kerala)
• ladder - Muslim League (Kerala)
• bow and arrow - Shiv Sena (Maharashtra)
• conch - Biju Janata Dal (Orissa)
• scales - Akali Dal (Punjab)
• umbrella - Sikkim National Front (Sikkim)
• two leaves - All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Tamil Nadu)
• rising sun - Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Tamil Nadu)
• hand pump - Rashtriya Lok Dal (Uttar Pradesh)
• bicycle - Samajwadi Party (Uttar Pradesh)
• lion - All India Forward Bloc (West Bengal)
• flowers and grass - Nationalist Trinamool Congress

Icons - U.S.

• elephant - U.S. Republican Party
• donkey - U.S. Democratic Party
• Abraham Lincoln - U.S. Republican Party (used on some paper ballots in US)
• Thomas Jefferson - U.S. Democratic Party (used on some paper ballots in US)

External links and references

• Electoral Laws (India)
• Election Symbol Notification 2004 (India), in PDF format
• Emblems and logos for registered political parties in Great Britain