List of social democratic parties

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This is a list of parties in the world that consider themselves to be upholding the principles and values of social democracy. Some of the parties are also members of the Socialist International, Party of European Socialists or the Progressive Alliance.

Names used by social democratic parties

Socialist Party
Social Democratic Party
Democratic Socialist Party
Socialist Democratic Party
Labour Party
Social Democratic Union
New Democratic Party
Democratic Party

Alphabetical list by country

A

Albania:
- Socialist Party of Albania
- Socialist Movement for Integration
- Social Democratic Party of Albania
Åland Islands (Finland):
- Åland Social Democrats
Algeria:
- Front of Socialist Forces
Andorra:
- Social Democratic Party
- Social Democracy and Progress
Angola:
- People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
Argentina:
- Frente de Todos
  - Broad Front
  - National Alfonsinist Movement
  - Victory Party
  - Protector Political Force
  - Labor and Equity Party
- Socialist Party
- Generation for a National Encounter

Armenia:
- Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
- Citizen's Decision
Aruba:
- People's Electoral Movement
- RAIZ
- Aruban Sovereignty Movement
Australia:
- Australian Labor Party
- Australian Greens^[1]
Austria:
- Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)
Azerbaijan:
- Social Democratic Party

B

Barbados:
- Democratic Labour Party
- Barbados Labour Party
- People's Party for Democracy and Development
Belarus:
- Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly
- Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly)
- Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)
Belgium:
- Socialist Party (PS)
- Forward
Belize:
- Belize People's Front
- Belize Progressive Party
Benin:
- Social Democratic Party
Bolivia:
- Revolutionary Left Front
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
- Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Social Democrats
- Democratic Front
Botswana:
- Umbrella for Democratic Change:
  - Botswana Congress Party
  - Botswana National Front
Brazil:
- Democratic Labour Party
- Workers' Party
- Brazilian Socialist Party
- Green Party
- Sustainability Network
- Party of National Mobilization
- Solidarity
Bulgaria:
- BSP for Bulgaria:
  - Bulgarian Socialist Party
- Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats
- Political Movement "Social Democrats"
- Alternative for Bulgarian Revival
- Stand Up.BG

C

Cameroon:
- Social Democratic Front
Canada:
- New Democratic Party (NDP/NPD)
- Bloc Québécois
- Parti Québécois (A Quebec provincial party)
Chile:
- Democratic Socialism:
  - Socialist Party of Chile
  - New Deal
- Apruebo Dignidad:
  - Democratic Revolution
  - Unir Movement
Colombia:
- Colombian Liberal Party^[2]
- Historic Pact for Colombia:
  - Alternative Democratic Pole
  - Patriotic Union
Costa Rica:
- National Liberation Party
- Citizens' Action Party
Croatia:
- Social Democratic Party of Croatia
- Social Democrats
- Croatian Labourists – Labour Party
- New Left
Cuba:
- Social Democratic Co-ordination of Cuba
- Cuban Democratic Socialist Current
Curaçao:
- Partido MAN
- Curaçao is the Best
Cyprus:
- Movement for Social Democracy
Czech Republic:
- Social Democracy

D

Democratic Republic of the Congo:
- Union for Democracy and Social Progress
Denmark:
- Social Democrats
Dominican Republic:
- Dominican Liberation Party
- Social Democratic Institutional Bloc

E

East Timor:
- National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction
- Frenti-Mudança
- Republican Party (East Timor)
- Timorese Social Democratic Action Center
Ecuador:
- Democratic Left
- PAIS Alliance
Egypt
- Egyptian Social Democratic Party
Estonia:
- Social Democratic Party
Ethiopia:
- Medrek
- Social Democratic Party
European Union:
- Party of European Socialists

F

Faroe Islands (Denmark):
- Social Democratic Party
Fiji:
- Fiji Labour Party
- National Federation Party
Finland:
- Social Democratic Party of Finland
- Left Alliance
France:
- Socialist Party
- Place Publique
- Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Country)

G

Germany:
- Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Georgia:
- European Socialists
- Georgian Labour Party
- Social Democrats for the Development of Georgia
- Georgian Dream
Ghana:
- National Democratic Congress
Gibraltar:
- Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
Greece:
- Syriza
- Movement of Democratic Socialists
- PASOK – Movement for Change (PASOK-KINAL)
- Agreement for the New Greece
Greenland (Denmark):
- Siumut
Guatemala:
- National Unity of Hope
- Semilla
- Will, Opportunity and Solidarity (VOS)

H

Haiti:
- Struggling People's Organization
- Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats
- Platfòm Pitit Desalin
Hong Kong:
- League of Social Democrats
- Labour Party
Honduras:
- Innovation and Unity Party
- Democratic Unification Party
Hungary:
- Hungarian Socialist Party
- Social Democratic Party of Hungary
- Yes Solidarity for Hungary Movement

I

Iceland:
- Social Democratic Alliance
India:
- Indian National Congress
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
- Samajwadi Party
Indonesia:
- Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle^[3]
- Labour Party
- Indonesian Solidarity Party
Iran:
- National Front
- Iran Party
- Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority)
- Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (Eastern Kurdistan)
- Komala (Eastern Kurdistan)
Iraq:
- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Kurdistan region)
- Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party (Kurdistan region)
- Komala (Kurdistan region)
- Social Democratic Current ^[4]^[5]
Ireland, Republic of:
- Labour Party
- Social Democrats
Israel:
- Israeli Labor Party
- Meretz
Italy:
- Article One (Art.1)
- Democratic Party (PD)
- Italian Socialist Party (PSI)
- Possible (Pos)
- Social Democrats
- Red Moors (RM) (Sardinia)
- Independence Republic of Sardinia (iRS) (Sardinia)
- Sicilian Socialist Party (Sicily)
- Greens (South Tyrol)
- Venetian Left (SV) (Veneto)

J

Jamaica:
- People's National Party
Japan:
- Social Democratic Party
- Okinawa Social Mass Party (Okinawa)

K

Kazakhstan:
- Nationwide Social Democratic Party
Kosovo:
- Social Democratic Initiative
- Social Democratic Party of Kosovo
- Social Democratic Union
- Lëvizja Vetëvendosje! (Self-determination Movement)
Kyrgyzstan:
- Ata Meken Socialist Party
- Social Democrats

L

Latvia:
- Social Democratic Party "Harmony"
- Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
- The Progressives
Lebanon:
- Democratic Left Movement
- Progressive Socialist Party
Libya:
- Ensaf Movement
Lithuania:
- Social Democratic Party of Lithuania
- Lithuanian Regions Party
Luxembourg:
- Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party

M

Malaysia:
- Democratic Action Party
Malta:
- Labour Party
Mauritania:
- Union of the Forces of Progress
- Rally of Democratic Forces
Mauritius:
- Labour Party
- Mauritian Militant Movement
- Militant Socialist Movement
Mexico:
- Morena
- Party of the Democratic Revolution
- Progressive Social Networks
Moldova:
- European Social Democratic Party
- Social Democratic Party
- National Alternative Movement
- People's Party of the Republic of Moldova
Mongolia:
- Mongolian People's Party
- Right Person Electorate Coalition
  - Mongolian Social Democratic Party
Montenegro:
- Social Democratic Party of Montenegro
- Social Democrats
- Socialist People's Party of Montenegro
Morocco:
- Socialist Union of Popular Forces
Myanmar:
- Democratic Party for a New Society

N

Namibia:
- Landless People's Movement
Nepal:
- Nepali Congress
- Democratic Socialist Party
- People's Progressive Party
- People's Freedom Party
Netherlands:
- Labour Party (PvdA)
- GroenLinks
New Zealand:
- New Zealand Labour Party
- Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Nicaragua:
- Sandinista Renovation Movement
Niger:
- Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism
- Social Democratic Rally
- Social Democratic Party
- Party for Socialism and Democracy in Niger
Nigeria:
- Young Progressives Party
- Labour Party
- People's Redemption Party
- Social Democratic Party
Northern Cyprus:
- Republican Turkish Party
- Communal Democracy Party
North Korea:
- Korean Social Democratic Party
North Macedonia:
- Social Democratic Union of Macedonia
- New Social Democratic Party
Norway:
- Labour Party

O

P

Palestine:
- Fatah
- Palestinian National Initiative
Panama:
- Democratic Revolutionary Party
Pakistan:
- Pakistan Peoples Party
- Pakistan Peoples Party Workers^[6]
- Qaumi Watan Party
- Awami National Party
- National Democratic Movement
- National Party
Paraguay:
- National Encounter Party
- Revolutionary Febrerista Party
- Progressive Democratic Party
Peru:
- American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
- National United Renaissance
- Peruvian Nationalist Party
Philippines:
- Akbayan
- Philippine Democratic Socialist Party
Poland:
- New Left
- Labour Union
- Left Together
- Freedom and Equality
- Poland 2050
- Polish Initiative
- Social Democratic Party of Poland
- Polish Left
Portugal:
- Socialist Party
Puerto Rico:
- Puerto Rican Independence Party

R

Republic of the Congo:
- Action and Renewal Movement
- Pan-African Union for Social Democracy
- Congolese Party of Labour
Romania:
- Social Democratic Party
Russia:
- A Just Russia
- Party of Russia's Rebirth
- Social Democratic Party of Russia (Internationalist)
- Left Socialist Action
Rwanda:
- Social Party Imberakuri
- Social Democratic Party

S

San Marino:
- Party of Socialists and Democrats
- Socialist Party
- Libera San Marino
Senegal
- Socialist Party
- Alliance of the Forces of Progress
Serbia:
- Socialist Party of Serbia
- Social Democratic Party of Serbia
- Democratic Party
- Social Democratic Party
- Party of Freedom and Justice
- Movement for Reversal
- League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina
Singapore:
- Workers' Party of Singapore
Sint Maarten:
- National Alliance
- United Democrats
Slovakia:
- Voice – Social Democracy
- Direction – Slovak Social Democracy
Slovenia:
- Social Democrats
Somalia:
- Wadajir Party
- Somali Labour Party
South Africa:
- African National Congress
- Congress of the People
- United Democratic Movement
- Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats
- National Freedom Party
- Rise Mzansi
South Korea:
- Justice Party
- Labor Party
Spain:
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
- Podemos^[7]^[8]
- Republican Left of Catalonia (Catalonia)
- Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Country)
Sri Lanka:
- Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Suriname:
- National Democratic Party
- Brotherhood and Unity in Politics
- Surinamese Labour Party
- National Party of Suriname
- Progressive Reform Party
Sweden:
- Swedish Social Democratic Party
Switzerland:
- Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
Syria:
- Syrian Democratic People's Party

T

Taiwan:
- Democratic Progressive Party^[9]^[10]^[11]
- Social Democratic Party
Tajikistan:
- Social Democratic Party
Tanzania:
- Alliance for Change and Transparency
Thailand:
- Move Forward Party
Turkey:
- Republican People's Party
- Democratic Left Party
- Peoples' Democratic Party
Tunisia:
- Democratic Current
- Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties
- Movement Party
- Social Democratic Path

U

Uganda:
- Uganda People's Congress
Ukraine:
- Platform for Life and Peace
- Ukraine – Forward!
United Kingdom:
- Labour Party
- Mec Vannin (MC) (Isle of Man)
- Mebyon Kernow (MK) (Mebyon Kernow)
- Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) (Northern Ireland)
- Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) (Northern Ireland)
- Scottish National Party (SNP) (Scotland)
- Plaid Cymru (Wales)
United States:
- California National Party (California)
- Labor Party (South Carolina)
- Movement for a People's Party
- Social Democrats of America
- Vermont Progressive Party (Vermont)
- Working Families Party
Uruguay:
- Broad Front, composed of:
  - Socialist Party of Uruguay
  - Uruguay Assembly
  - Vertiente Artiguista
  - New Space
- Independent Party

V

Venezuela:
- Democratic Action
- For Social Democracy
- Movement for Socialism
- Popular Will
- A New Era
- Progressive Advance
- Movimiento por Venezuela

W

X

Y

Z

Zambia:
- Patriotic Front
Zimbabwe:
- Movement for Democratic Change

List of historical social democratic parties

A

Andorra
- New Democracy (Andorra)
Australia
- National Labor Party

B

Belgium:
- Belgian Labour Party
- Belgian Socialist Party
- Belgian Democratic Union

C

Canada:
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Chile:
- Common Force

E

Estonia:
- Estonian Democratic Labour Party (1989)

F

Finland
- Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders
France:
- French Section of the Workers' International
- Republican-Socialist Party
- Territories of Progress

G

Germany:
- General German Workers' Association
- Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany

Greece:
- Democratic Left (DIMAR)
- Party of Democratic Socialism
- Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK)

Guatemala:
- Revolutionary Action Party

I

Iceland:
- Social Democratic Party (Iceland)
- People's Alliance (Iceland)
India:
- Praja Rajyam Party
- Socialist Party (India)
Ireland:
- Clann na Poblachta
- Clann na Talmhan
- National Labour Party (Ireland)
- Democratic Left (Ireland)
Israel:
- Mapai
- Ahdut HaAvoda
- Alignment
Italy:
- Action Party
- Italian Democratic Socialists
- Italian Socialist Party
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party
- Democratic Party of the Left
- Democrats of the Left
- New Italian Socialist Party
- Labour Democratic Party
- Italian Reformist Socialist Party
- United Socialist Party
- Free and Equal

J

Japan
- Japan Socialist Party
- Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
- Socialist Democratic Federation (Japan)

K

Kyrgyzstan:
- Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan

M

Mexico
- Laborist Party (Mexico)

N

Netherlands:
- Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands)
- Democratic Socialists '70
New Zealand:
- Social Democratic Party (New Zealand)
- United Labour Party (New Zealand)

P

Pakistan:
- Sindh National Front
Peru:
- Decentralist Social Force Party
Philippines
- PDP-Laban
Poland:
- Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland
- Polish Social Democratic Union
- Democratic Left Alliance
- Democratic-Social Movement

R

Romania:
- National Salvation Front (Romania)
- Romanian Social Democratic Party (1990–2001)

S

San Marino
- Party of Democrats
- Sammarinese Socialist Party
Slovakia
- Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia)
South Africa
- Labour Party (South Africa)
- Labour Party

T

Trinidad and Tobago
- Social Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago
Transnistria:
- Social Democratic Party of Transnistria

U

United Kingdom
- National Labour Organisation
- National Socialist Party
Ukraine:
- Socialist Party of Ukraine
- Justice Party

Y

Yemen:
- Yemeni Socialist Party

Z

Zimbabwe:
- Movement for Democratic Change
- Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai
- Movement for Democratic Change – Mutambara

References

↑ "The Australian Federal Election Offers a Choice Between Disaster and Disappointment". https://jacobin.com/2022/05/australian-federal-election-2022-coalition-alp-morrison-albanese.
↑ James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2 October 2006). Historical Dictionary of Socialism. Scarecrow Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=JRYjU-L4F7wC&pg=PT211.
↑ Ideology and Political Parties: Measuring the Political Ideology of Marhaenism in PDIP, Democratic Socialism in PSI and Islamic Fundamentalism in PKS
↑ جميل محسن. "التيار الاجتماعي الديمقراطي لماذا 2". https://m.ahewar.org/s.asp?aid=553605&r=0.
↑ "التيار الاجتماعي الديمقراطي يعقد مؤتمره التأسيسي" (in ar-AA). http://iraqicparchives.com/index.php/sections/society/68480-2018-01-13-18-38-46.
↑ Farwell, James P. (2011), The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability, Potomac Books, p. 54
↑ Manetto, Francesco (30 November 2014). "Podemos: El rápido viaje ideológico hasta la socialdemocracia". El País. https://elpais.com/politica/2014/11/30/actualidad/1417373210_752548.html.
↑ "La alternativa socialdemócrata es Podemos". 9 November 2014. https://www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona-critica/alternativa-socialdemocrata-podemos_129_4532105.html.
↑ Taiwan International Review, Volume 5. Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, Mission in the United States. 1999. p. 13. "The DPP resembles a cross - mix of Western social democratic and liberal values ."
↑ Ka-Ho Mok, Maggie K. W. Lau, ed (2013). Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition. Routledge.
↑ John Franklin Copper, ed (2012). Taiwan's Democracy on Trial: Political Change During the Chen Shui-bian Era and Beyond. University Press of America. p. 37. "...The DPP advanced a socialist agenda; the KMT copied much of it in order to preempt the DPP's program and weaken the DPP's political appeal. As it did this Taiwan became more and more a Western (social) democracy. ..."

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[1] "The Australian Federal Election Offers a Choice Between Disaster and Disappointment". https://jacobin.com/2022/05/australian-federal-election-2022-coalition-alp-morrison-albanese.

[DochertyLamb2006-2] James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2 October 2006). Historical Dictionary of Socialism. Scarecrow Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=JRYjU-L4F7wC&pg=PT211.

[3] Ideology and Political Parties: Measuring the Political Ideology of Marhaenism in PDIP, Democratic Socialism in PSI and Islamic Fundamentalism in PKS

[4] جميل محسن. "التيار الاجتماعي الديمقراطي لماذا 2". https://m.ahewar.org/s.asp?aid=553605&r=0.

[5] "التيار الاجتماعي الديمقراطي يعقد مؤتمره التأسيسي" (in ar-AA). http://iraqicparchives.com/index.php/sections/society/68480-2018-01-13-18-38-46.

[6] Farwell, James P. (2011), The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability, Potomac Books, p. 54

[7] Manetto, Francesco (30 November 2014). "Podemos: El rápido viaje ideológico hasta la socialdemocracia". El País. https://elpais.com/politica/2014/11/30/actualidad/1417373210_752548.html.

[8] "La alternativa socialdemócrata es Podemos". 9 November 2014. https://www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona-critica/alternativa-socialdemocrata-podemos_129_4532105.html.

[SD-9] Taiwan International Review, Volume 5. Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, Mission in the United States. 1999. p. 13. "The DPP resembles a cross - mix of Western social democratic and liberal values ."

[10] Ka-Ho Mok, Maggie K. W. Lau, ed (2013). Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition. Routledge.

[11] John Franklin Copper, ed (2012). Taiwan's Democracy on Trial: Political Change During the Chen Shui-bian Era and Beyond. University Press of America. p. 37. "...The DPP advanced a socialist agenda; the KMT copied much of it in order to preempt the DPP's program and weaken the DPP's political appeal. As it did this Taiwan became more and more a Western (social) democracy. ..."

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