;This is a list of political parties in the United Kingdom, by their historic representation in elected bodies.
Party | Founded | First represented | Last represented | Dissolved | data-sort-type="number" | Maximum representation | MPs | Notes |
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Alba Party | 2021 | 2021 | 2024 | N/A | 2 (2021) | Kenny MacAskill
- Neale Hanvey
| Split from the Scottish National Party |
All-for-Ireland League | 1909 | 1909 | 1918 | 1918 | 8 (1910) | | |
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | 1970 | 1973 | Present | N/A | 1 (1973) | Stephen Farry
- Naomi Long; Stratton Mills; Sorcha Eastwood
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Anti H-Block | 1981 | 1981 | 1982 | 1982 | 1 (1981) | Bobby Sands
- Owen Carron
| Merged into Sinn Féin |
Anti-Waste League | 1921 | 1921 | 1922 | 1922 | 2 (1921) | James Malcolm Monteith Erskine
- Murray Sueter
| |
Blaenau Gwent People's Voice | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2011 | 1 (2010) | Peter Law, Dai Davies | |
British Socialist Party | 1911 | 1920 | 1920 | 1920 | 1 (1920) | Cecil L'Estrange Malone | Merged into the Communist Party of Great Britain |
Change UK | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 11 (2019) | List | Split from the Labour and Conservative Parties in February 2019, dissolved December 2019 |
Christian Pacifist (Fellowship of Reconciliation) | 1915 | 1923 | 1924 | N/A | 1 (1923) | George M. Ll. Davies | |
Coalition Labour | 1918 | 1918 | 1922 | 1922 | | |
Colne Valley Labour Union | 1891 | 1907 | 1910 | 1918 | 1 (1907) | Victor Grayson | Won the 1907 Colne Valley by-election |
Commonwealth Labour Party | 1942 | 1942 | 1947 | 1947 | 1 (1942) | Harry Midgley | |
Common Wealth Party | 1942 | 1942 | 1946 | 1993 | 5 (1945) | List | |
Communist Party of Great Britain | 1920 | 1920 | 1950 | 1991 | 2 (1945) | Willie Gallacher
- Cecil L'Estrange Malone; Walton Newbold; Phil Piratin; Shapurji Saklatvala
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Conservative Party | 1835 | 1835 | Present | N/A | 473 (1931) | List | |
Constitutionalists | 1923 | 1923 | 1925 | 1929 | 12 (1923) | Winston Churchill, Hamar Greenwood, Algernon Moreing, Thomas Robinson, John Ward, Abraham England, Henry Hogbin, John Sturrock |
Co-operative Party | 1917 | 1918 | Present | N/A | 38 (2017) | List | Affiliated with the Labour Party since 1927 |
Democratic Labour | 1972 | 1972 | 1974 | 1979 | 1 (1972) | Dick Taverne | |
Democratic Party | 1969 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1 (1969) | Desmond Donnelly | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 1971 | 1971 | Present | N/A | 10 (2017) | List | Formed from the Protestant Unionist Party |
Empire Free Trade Crusade | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1930s | 1 (1930) | Ernest Taylor | Joint candidate with the United Empire Party |
English National Party | 1960s | 1976 | 1976 | 1980 | 1 (1976) | John Stonehouse | |
Federation of Labour | 1944 | 1945 | 1949 | 1949 | 1 (1945) | Jack Beattie | Merged into the Irish Labour Party |
| 1973 | 1992 | Present | N/A | 4 (2024) | Cynog Dafis
- Caroline Lucas; Sian Berry; Carla Denyer; Ellie Chowns; Adrian Ramsay
| Dafis was a joint candidate with Plaid Cymru |
Crofters Party | 1880s | 1885 | 1895 | 1890s | 4 (1885) | Gavin Brown Clark
- Charles Fraser-Mackintosh; Roderick MacDonald; Donald Horne Macfarlane
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Independent Irish Party | 1852 | 1852 | 1858 | 1858 | 40 (1852) | | Split from the Liberal Party |
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern | 2000 | 2001 | 2010 | N/A | 1 (2001) | Richard Taylor | |
Independent Liberals | 1931 | 1931 | 1935 | 1935 | 5 (1931) | David Lloyd George
- Gwilym Lloyd George; Megan Lloyd George; Frank Owen; Goronwy Owen
| Not a separate party per se; its members were official Liberal Party candidates who rejected the National Government. |
Independent Labour Party | 1893 | 1893 | 1947 | 1975 | | | Affiliated with the Labour Party from 1900 until 1931 |
Independent Parliamentary Group | 1920 | 1920 | 1921 | 1921 | | | |
Irish Confederate Party | 1847 | 1847 | 1848 | 1848 | 2 (1847) | Thomas Chisholm Anstey
- William Smith O'Brien
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Irish Labour Party | 1912 | 1949 | 1955 | N/A | 1 (1949) | Jack Beattie | |
Labour Independent Group | 1949 | 1949 | 1950 | 1950 | 5 (1949) | Lester Hutchinson
- John Platts-Mills; Denis Nowell Pritt; Leslie Solley; Konni Zilliacus
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Labour Party | 1906 | 1906 | Present | N/A | 418 (1997) | List | Formed from the Labour Representation Committee |
Labour Independent Group | 1949 | 1949 | 1950 | 1950 | 5 (1949) | Denis Pritt, Lester Hutchinson, John Platts-Mills, Leslie Solley, Konni Zilliacus | Denis Pritt was expelled from the Labour Party in 1940 for supporting the Soviet Union in the Winter War, the rest were for supporting Soviet Foreign Policy |
Labour Representation Committee | 1900 | 1900 | 1906 | 1906 | 29 (1906) | List | Became the Labour Party |
Liberal Democrats | 1988 | 1988 | Present | N/A | 72 (2024) | List | Merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party |
Liberal Party | 1859 | 1859 | 1988 | 1988 | 397 (1906) | List | Merged into the Liberal Democrats |
Liberal Unionist Party | 1886 | 1886 | 1912 | 1912 | 77 (1886) | List | Split from the Liberal Party; merged into the Conservative Party |
Mebyon Kernow | 1951 | 1964 | 1970 | N/A | 2 (1964) | Peter Bessell, John Pardoe, David Mudd | multi party membership |
Militant tendency | 1964 | 1983 | 1991 | 1991 | 4 (1983) | Eric Heffer, Dave Nellist, Terry Fields, Pat Wall |
National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers | 1916 | 1918 | 1921 | 1921 | 1 (1918) | Robert Hewitt Barker | Semi-official candidate, sponsored by local branch of organisation |
National Democratic and Labour Party | 1918 | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 9 (1918) | | |
National Party | 1917 | 1917 | 1921 | 1921 | 8 (1917) | | |
Nationalist Party (Ireland) | 1870 | 1870 | 1955 | 1977 | 86 (1885) | List | |
National Labour | 1931 | 1931 | 1945 | 1945 | 14 (1931) | List | |
National Liberal Party | 1931 | 1931 | 1968 | 1968 | 55 (1950) | List | Affiliated with the Conservative Party from 1947 |
National Socialist Party | 1916 | 1918 | 1919 | 1919 | 3 (1918) | Dan Irving
- Jack Jones; Will Thorne
| Affiliated with the Labour Party |
New Party | 1930 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 6 (1931) | Oliver Baldwin
- W. J. Brown; Robert Forgan; Cynthia Mosley; Oswald Mosley; John Strachey
| Baldwin and Brown held membership for a single day |
Nordic League | 1935 | 1935 | 1939 | 1939 | 1 (1935) | Archibald Maule Ramsay | |
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 1924 | 1943 | 1943 | 1987 | 1 (1943) | Jack Beattie | |
Plaid Cymru | 1925 | 1966 | Present | N/A | 4 (1992) | List | |
Protestant Unionist Party | 1966 | 1970 | 1971 | 1971 | 1 (1970) | Ian Paisley | Became the Democratic Unionist Party |
Referendum Party | 1994 | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1 (1997) | George Gardiner | |
Republican Labour Party | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1973 | 1 (1970) | Gerry Fitt | |
Reclaim Party | 2020 | 2023 | 2023 | N/A | 1 (2023) | Andrew Bridgen |
Reform League | 1865 | 1865 | 1869 | 1869 | 6 (1865) | George Howell (trade unionist), Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton, Peter Alfred Taylor, Samuel Morley (MP), Charles Bradlaugh, John Bright |
Reform UK | 2018 | 2024 | N/A | N/A | 5 (2024) | Lee Anderson
- Nigel Farage; Rupert Lowe; Richard Tice; James McMurdock
| Founded as the Brexit Party |
Respect Party | 2004 | 2005 | 2015 | 2016 | 1 (2005) | George Galloway | |
Russellite Unionist | 1904 | 1904 | 1910 | 1910 | 3 (1904) | Sir Thomas Russell, 1st Baronet, James Wood, Edward Mitchell, Robert Glendinning | |
Scotland United | 2023 | 2023 | Present | N/A | 3 (2023) | Kenny MacAskill
- Neale Hanvey; Angus MacNeil
| Political Grouping |
Scottish Labour Party (1888) | 1888 | 1888 | 1892 | 1893 | 1 (1888) | Robert Cunninghame-Graham | Merged into the Independent Labour Party |
Scottish Labour Party (1976) | 1976 | 1976 | 1979 | 1979 | 2 (1976) | John Robertson
- Jim Sillars
| Split from the Labour Party |
Scottish National Party | 1934 | 1945 | Present | N/A | 56 (2015) | List | |
Scottish Prohibition Party | 1901 | 1922 | 1931 | 1935 | 1 (1922) | Edwin Scrymgeour | |
Sinn Féin | 1905 | 1917 | Present | N/A | 73 (1918) | List | Sinn Féin MPs do not take their seats |
Social Democratic Party | 1981 | 1981 | 1988 | 1988 | 29 (1982) | List | Merged into the Liberal Democrats |
Social Democratic Party (1988) | 1988 | 1988 | 1990 | 1990 | 29 (1982) | Rosie Barnes, John Cartwright, David Owen | Formed by Social Democratic Party members who did not join the Liberal Democrats |
Social Democratic and Labour Party | 1970 | 1970 | Present | N/A | 4 (1992) | List | |
Traditional Unionist Voice | 2007 | 2024 | Present | N/A | 1 (2024 | Jim Allister | |
UK Unionist Party | 1995 | 1995 | 2001 | 2008 | 1 (1995) | Robert McCartney | |
Ulster Popular Unionist Party | 1980 | 1980 | 1995 | 1995 | 1 (1980) | James Kilfedder | |
Ulster Unionist Labour Association | 1918 | 1918 | 1922 | N/A | 3 (1918) | Thomas Henry Burn
- Thompson Donald; Samuel McGuffin
| Linked with the Ulster Unionist Party |
Ulster Unionist Party | 1905 | 1905 | 2017 | N/A | 20 (1918) | List | At times affiliated to the Conservative Party |
United Empire Party | 1920s | 1930 | 1931 | 1930s | 1 (1930) | Ernest Taylor | Joint candidate with the Empire Free Trade Crusade |
United Ulster Unionist Party | 1975 | 1975 | 1982 | 1982 | 1 (1975) | John Dunlop | Split from the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party |
UK Independence Party | 1993 | 2008 | 2017 | N/A | 2 (2014) | Douglas Carswell
- Mark Reckless
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Unity | 1960s | 1969 | 1974 | 1977 | 2 (1970) | Bernadette Devlin
- Frank McManus
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Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party | 1973 | 1973 | 1978 | 1978 | 3 (1974) | Robert Bradford
- William Craig; John Dunlop
| Split from and later merged into the Ulster Unionist Party |
Workers Party of Britain | 2019 | 2024 | N/A | N/A | 1 (2024) | George Galloway |
Repeal Association | 1830 | 1832 | 1847 | 1848 | 42 (1832) | | Also Known as the Irish Repeal Party |
Home Rule League | 1873 | | 1880 | 1882 | 59 (1874) | | Became the Irish Parliamentary Party |
Liberal–Labour | 1870 | 1874 | 1918 | 1918 | | |
Independent Conservative | 1911 | 1911 | N/A | N/A | | |
Independent Nationalist | 1880 | 1880 | 1955 | N/A | N/A | | Not a Political Party but a Description for Irish Nationalist who are not affiliated with a Political Party same meaning as the Description used in the Northern Ireland Assembly today |
Chartist | 1838 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1 (1847) | | |
Birkenhead Social Justice | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 1 (2019) | | |
The Independents (UK) | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 5 (2019) | Gavin Shuker, John Woodcock, Luciana Berger, Angela Smith, Heidi Allen | |
Scottish Socialist Party (1932) | 1932 | 1932 | 1940 | 1940 | 2 (1932) | Neil Maclean, Thomas Johnston | |
Ministerialist | 1768 | 1768 | 1774 | 1774 | 225 (1766) | Lord North | |
Northite | 1774 | 1774 | 1784 | 1784 | 396 (1780) | |
Rockingham Whigs | 1765 | 1768 | 1784 | 1784 | 254 (1780) | William Dowdeswell, Henry Seymour Conway | |
Grenville Whigs | 1740 | 1765 | 1774 | 1774 | 41 (1768) | George Grenville | |
Bedford Whigs | 1751 | 1751 | 1774 | 1783 | 23 (1751) | | |
Radicals | 1750 | 1768 | 1857 | 1859 | 15 (1852) | | | |