This is a list of political parties in the United States, both past and present. The list does not include independents.
Not all states allow the public to access voter registration data. Therefore, voter registration data should not be taken as the correct value and should be viewed as an underestimate.
Party | Ideology | Year founded | Political position | Membership (2024) [1] | Electoral (2024) | Popular [2] | Senators [3] | Voting | Nonvoting | Governors [4] | State legislators [4] | Legislatures [4] | Trifectas [4] | |
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Republican Party | Conservatism | 1854 | Center-right to right-wing | 37,314,494 | 312 / 538 | 77,234,090 (49.9%) | 53 / 100 | 220 / 435 | 3 / 6 | 29 / 55 | 4,031 / 7,383 | 28 / 49 | 22 / 49 | |
Democratic Party | Liberalism | 1828 | Center-left | 45,512,696 | 226 / 538 | 74,936,918 (48.5%) | 47 / 100 [A] | 215 / 435 | 3 / 6 | 25 / 55 | 3,271 / 7,383 | 19 / 49 | 17 / 49 |
The following third parties have members in state legislatures affiliated with them.
Party | Ballot access | Presidential ballot access (2024) | Ideology | Year founded | Political position | Membership (2024) [1] | Presidential vote (2024) | State legislators | |
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Forward Party | 5 / 51 [5] | No candidate | 2022 | Center | 1483 | No candidate | 2 / 7,383 [6] |
Party | Ballot access | Ideology | Year founded | Political position | Membership (2024) [1] | Presidential vote (2024) | State legislators | |
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Vermont Progressive Party | Vermont | Progressivism [7] Democratic socialism [7] | 1993 | Left-wing | Unknown | No candidate | 13 / 7,386 [8] |
The following third parties have ballot access in at least one state and are not represented in a national office or state legislature. [9]
The following parties have been active in the past 4 years, but as of December 2021, did not have official ballot access in any state. [9]
The following parties are represented in the Puerto Rican Legislature.
Party | Ideology | Year founded | Political position | President | Gubernatorial vote [62] | Senators [63] | Representatives [63] | Mayors [64] | |
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New Progressive Party Partido Nuevo Progresista | Puerto Rico statehood | 1967 [65] | Center to centre-right | Pedro Pierluisi | 427,016 (33.24%) | 10 / 27 | 21 / 51 | 36 / 78 | |
Popular Democratic Party Partido Popular Democrático | Pro-Commonwealth Centrism | 1938 [66] | Center | Jesús Manuel Ortiz | 407,817 (31.75%) | 12 / 27 | 26 / 51 | 41 / 78 | |
Citizens' Victory Movement Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana | Anti-imperialism Anti-neoliberalism Progressivism | 2019 | Left-wing | Ana Irma Rivera Lassén | 179,265 (13.95%) | 2 / 27 | 2 / 51 | 0 / 78 | |
Puerto Rican Independence Party Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño | Puerto Rico independence Social democracy | 1946 [65] | Center-left | Rubén Berríos | 175,402 (13.58%) | 1 / 27 | 1 / 51 | 0 / 78 | |
Project Dignity Proyecto Dignidad | Christian democracy Anti-corruption | 2019 | Center-right to right-wing | César Váquez Muñiz | 87,379 (6.80%) | 1 / 27 | 1 / 51 | 1 / 78 |
Party | Territory | Other names | Ideology | Mergers/Splits | Created | Disbanded | |
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Puerto Rican Nationalist Party | Puerto Rico | Puerto Rican nationalism [158] | 1922 | 1965 | |||
Puerto Rican Socialist Party | Puerto Rico | Puerto Rican nationalism [159] | 1959 | 1993 | |||
Covenant Party | Northern Mariana Islands | Populism | Merged into: Republican Party | 2001 | 2013 [160] | ||
Working People's Party | Puerto Rico | Partido del Pueblo Trabajador | 2010 | 2016 | |||
Popular Party (Guam) | Guam | Commercial Party | Merged into: Democratic Party | 1949 | 1964 | ||
Territorial Party (Guam) | Guam | Merged into: Republican Party | 1956 | 1966 | |||
Popular Party (Northern Mariana Islands) [161] [162] | Northern Mariana Islands | Merged into: Democratic Party | 1978 | ||||
Territorial Party (Northern Mariana Islands) [162] | Northern Mariana Islands | Merged into: Republican Party | |||||
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These organizations generally do not nominate candidates for election, but some of them have in the past; they otherwise function similarly to political parties.
These historical organizations did not officially nominate candidates for election but may have endorsed or supported campaigns; they otherwise functioned similarly to political parties.
Officially recognized parties in states are not guaranteed have ballot access, membership numbers of some parties with ballot access are not tracked, and vice versa. Not all of these parties 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 | NLB | RFM | WFP | Others | Unaffiliated | Total |
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Alaska | April 3, 2024 [173] | 73,637 | 143,100 | 6,654 | – | 776 | – | 21,232 [e] | 346,110 | 591,509 | ||
Arizona | April 2024 [174] | 1,192,205 | 1,434,982 | 31,164 | 2,796 | – | 27,539 | – | 1,369,634 | 4,058,320 | ||
Arkansas | May 3, 2024 [175] | 86,231 | 131,647 | 700 | 104 | – | 1 | 1,543,863 | 1,762,546 | |||
California | February 20, 2024 [176] | 10,285,108 | 5,388,479 | 240,618 | 102,659 | 271 | 42,039 | – | 1,195,512 [f] | 4,822,647 | 22,077,333 | |
Colorado | May 1, 2024 [177] | 1,006,438 | 903,079 | 37,315 | 8,280 | 11,245 | 7,969 | – | 9,413 [g] | 1,850,286 | 3,834,112 | |
Connecticut | May 16, 2024 [178] | 798,205 | 466,908 | 2,996 | 1,350 | – | 298 | 29,155 [h] | 919,524 | 2,218,436 | ||
Delaware | May 1, 2024 [179] | 350,955 | 205,909 | 2,028 | 718 | 238 | 1,768 | 47 | 314 | 15,130 [i] | 197,529 | 774,636 |
Washington, D.C. | August 2022 [180] | 379,489 | 26,567 | 2,290 | 3,855 | – | 82,556 | 494,757 | ||||
Florida | February 20, 2024 [181] | 4,363,490 | 5,214,907 | 35,445 | 7,712 | 14,833 | 7,498 | – | 266,493 [j] | 3,539,382 | 13,449,760 | |
Idaho | August 2022 [180] | 129,550 | 577,507 | 11,147 | – | 4,036 | – | 275,271 | 997,511 | |||
Iowa | November 1, 2022 [182] | 597,120 | 681,871 | 12,100 | 2,966 | – | 555,988 | 1,850,045 | ||||
Kansas | April 30, 2024 [183] | 503,972 | 874,132 | 24,151 | – | 39 | – | 563,482 | 1,965,776 | |||
Kentucky | April 15, 2024 [184] | 1,511,242 | 1,615,451 | 16,391 | 2,403 | 1,376 | – | 209 | – | 190,063 [k] | 153,870 | 3,491,005 |
Louisiana | November 7, 2023 [185] | 1,133,813 | 1,021,571 | 15,839 | 2,583 | 154 | 2,296 | 823 | – | 130,273 [l] | 665,154 | 2,979,345 |
Maine | March 5, 2024 [186] | 341,925 | 281,904 | 5,236 | 36,724 | – | 9,677 | – | 275,560 | 951,026 | ||
Maryland | March 2024 [187] | 2,208,095 | 994,529 | 18,836 | – | 234 | – | 54,299 | 909,180 | 4,185,173 | ||
Massachusetts | May 3, 2024 [188] | 1,336,825 | 415,438 | – | 3,599 | 292 | – | 113 | 722 | 36,484 [m] | 3,132,433 | 4,925,906 |
Nebraska | May 1, 2024 [189] | 330,657 | 605,466 | 18,036 | – | 6,684 [n] | 271,568 | 1,232,411 | ||||
Nevada | May 1, 2024 [190] | 708,432 | 654,182 | 20,967 | – | 48,105 | 794,532 | 2,329,718 | ||||
New Hampshire | March 29, 2024 [191] | 260,281 | 304,375 | – | 325,930 | 890,586 | ||||||
New Jersey | June 1, 2024 [192] | 2,496,054 | 1,563,771 | 25,174 | 11,498 | 12,989 | – | 1,550 | – | 28,084 [o] | 2,422,574 | 6,561,694 |
New Mexico | April 30, 2024 [193] | 577,692 | 415,653 | – | 27,443 [p] | 315,390 | 1,336,178 | |||||
New York | February 27, 2024 [194] | 6,404,069 | 2,903,144 | – | 54,678 | 572,778 [q] | 3,173,678 | 13,108,347 | ||||
North Carolina | May 1, 2024 [195] | 2,404,692 | 2,234,315 | 50,119 | 2,056 | 0 (New) | 7,752 | – | 2,743,054 | 7,441,988 | ||
Oklahoma | April 30, 2024 [196] | 649,432 | 1,214,774 | 22,365 | – | 449,488 | 2,336,059 | |||||
Oregon | August 2022 [180] | 1,014,041 | 730,765 | 20,865 | 7,820 | – | 8,364 | 141,185 [r] | 1,031,392 | 2,958,277 | ||
Pennsylvania | April 29, 2024 [197] | 3,895,223 | 3,499,524 | 42,919 | 10,326 | – | 1,273,199 | 8,721,191 | ||||
Rhode Island | May 2024 [198] | 281,725 | 103,268 | – | 338,629 | 723,622 | ||||||
South Dakota | May 1, 2024 [199] | 144,243 | 303,722 | 2,923 | – | 22 | – | 945 | 149,935 | 601,790 | ||
Utah | June 3, 2024 [200] | 275,698 | 991,894 | 26,411 | 74 | 8,497 | 2,353 | – | 88,837 [s] | 574,734 | 1,968,498 | |
West Virginia | May 4, 2024 [201] | 358,056 | 477,549 | 10,800 | 2,542 | – | 39,412 | 292,963 | 1,181,322 | |||
Wyoming | May 4, 2024 [202] | 23,787 | 178,387 | 1,057 | – | 343 | 13 | – | 15,875 | 219,462 |
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