List of frivolous political parties

A frivolous party or a joke party is a political party which has been created for the purposes of entertainment or political satire. Such a party may or may not have a serious point behind its activities. This is a list of frivolous political parties.

Some more serious political parties, such as the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, may use the same tactics and humorous approaches to politics as their more frivolous counterparts but aim to address legitimate sociopolitical issues, something that frivolous parties do not do.

Australia

Deadly Serious Party (deregistered in 1988)
Imperial British Conservative Party (see also: Cecil G. Murgatroyd, defunct)
Party! Party! Party! (defunct)^[1]
Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party (defunct)^[1]

Belarus

Beer Lovers Party (defunct in 1998)

Canada

Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party (defunct)
Parti Citron (Lemon Party, defunct)
Rhinoceros Party
Parti éléphant blanc de Montréal (defunct)
The Canada Party

Czechoslovakia

The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law (Jaroslav Hašek, 1911)

Czech Republic

Friends of Beer Party (1990–1998)

Denmark

Union of Conscientiously Work-Shy Elements (defunct)

Estonia

Royalist Party of Estonia (defunct)

Faroe Islands

Hin Stuttligi Flokkurin (The Funny Party, defunct)

Germany

APPD (Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany)
Die PARTEI ('The Party'; Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Protection of Animals, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative) (represented in the European Parliament)
Front Deutscher Äpfel

Hungary

Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party

Iceland

Best Party (defunct)

Iran

Party of Donkeys (defunct)^[2]

Italy

Partito dell'Amore ("Love Party", defunct)
Partito Nettista Italiano, known as "Partito della bistecca" (Steak Party, defunct)

Japan

No Party to Support

New Zealand

Bill and Ben Party (defunct)
Imperial British Conservative Party (defunct)
McGillicuddy Serious Party (defunct)
The Civilian Party (defunct)

Netherlands

Norway

Beer Unity Party (defunct)
The Political Party (defunct)

Poland

Partia Dobrego Humoru (Good Humor Party)
Polish Beer-Lovers' Party (defunct after winning 16 seats in 1991)

Romania

Partidul Liber-Schimbist (defunct)

Russia

Beer Lovers Party (defunct)

Serbia

Sarmu probo nisi: (Ljubiša Preletačević, the leader of SPN, participated in the 2017 Serbian presidential election and he came third with 9.44% of the vote)

Spain

Coordinadora Reusenca Independent
Partido del Karma Democrático, PKD ("Party of the Democratic Karma")

Sweden

Donald Duck Party

Taiwan

Can't Stop This Party

United Kingdom

Adam Lyal's Witchery Tour Party (defunct)
Church of the Militant Elvis Party, also known as the Bus Pass Elvis Party
The Eccentric Party of Great Britain
Fancy Dress Party (defunct)
New Millennium Bean Party
Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Raving Loony Green Giant Party (defunct)
Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party (defunct)
Teddy Bear Alliance (defunct)

United States

Guns and Dope Party
OWL Party
Straight Talking American Government Party (STAG) (defunct)
Surprise Party
Inanimate Objects Party
Undecided Cow Party

References

^ ^a ^b List of parties competing in the 1989 ACT election Archived April 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979. Vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0815609070.

Adrian Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable, ISBN 0-304-35871-1

[act-1] List of parties competing in the 1989 ACT election Archived April 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[2] Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979. Vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0815609070.

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