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
Contents
A
- Albania:
- Åland Islands (Finland):
- Algeria:
- Andorra:
- Angola:
- Argentina:
- Armenia:
- Aruba:
- Australia:
- Austria:
B
- Barbados:
- Belarus:
- Belgium:
- Socialist Party (PS)
- Forward
- Belize:
- Benin:
- Bolivia:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina:
- Botswana:
- Brazil:
- Bulgaria:
C
- Cameroon:
- Canada:
- New Democratic Party (NDP/NPD)
- Bloc Québécois
- Parti Québécois (A Quebec provincial party)
- Chile:
- Colombia:
- Costa Rica:
- Croatia:
- Cuba:
- Curaçao:
- Cyprus:
- Czech Republic:
D
- Democratic Republic of the Congo:
- Denmark:
- Dominican Republic:
E
- East Timor:
- Ecuador:
- Egypt
- Estonia:
- Ethiopia:
- European Union:
F
- Faroe Islands (Denmark):
- Fiji:
- Finland:
- France:
- Socialist Party
- Place Publique
- Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Country)
G
- Georgia:
- Germany:
- Ghana:
- Gibraltar:
- Greece:
- Greenland (Denmark):
- Guatemala:
H
- Haiti:
- Hong Kong:
- Honduras:
- Hungary:
I
- Iceland:
- India:
- Indonesia:
- 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
- Ireland, Republic of:
- Israel:
- 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:
- Japan:
K
- Kazakhstan:
- Kosovo:
- Kyrgyzstan:
L
- Latvia:
- Lebanon:
- Libya:
- Lithuania:
- Luxembourg:
M
- Malaysia:
- Malta:
- Mauritania:
- Mauritius:
- Mexico:
- Moldova:
- Mongolia:
- Montenegro:
- Morocco:
- Myanmar:
N
- Namibia:
- Nepal:
- Netherlands:
- Labour Party (PvdA)
- GroenLinks
- New Zealand:
- Nicaragua:
- Niger:
- Nigeria:
- Northern Cyprus:
- North Korea:
- North Macedonia:
- Norway:
O
P
- Palestine:
- Panama:
- Pakistan:
- Paraguay:
- Peru:
- Philippines:
- Poland:
- Portugal:
- Puerto Rico:
R
- Republic of the Congo:
- Romania:
- Russia:
- Rwanda:
S
- San Marino:
- Senegal
- Serbia:
- Singapore:
- Sint Maarten:
- Slovakia:
- Slovenia:
- Somalia:
- South Africa:
- South Korea:
- Spain:
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
- Podemos
- Republican Left of Catalonia (Catalonia)
- Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Country)
- Sri Lanka:
- Suriname:
- Sweden:
- Switzerland:
- Syria:
T
- Taiwan:
- Tajikistan:
- Tanzania:
- Thailand:
- Turkey:
- Tunisia:
U
- Uganda:
- Ukraine:
- 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)
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Labor Party (South Carolina)
- Social Democrats of America
- Social Democrats, USA
- Vermont Progressive Party (Vermont)
- Working Families Party
- Uruguay:
V
- Venezuela:
W
X
Y
Z
- Zambia:
- Zimbabwe:
List of historical social democratic parties
Contents
A
- Andorra
- Australia
- Azerbaijan:
B
C
- Canada:
- Chile:
E
F
- Finland
- France:
G
- Germany:
- Georgia:
- Greece:
- Guatemala:
I
- Iceland:
- India:
- Ireland:
- Israel:
- Italy:
J
- Japan
- Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
- Socialist Democratic Federation (Japan)
- Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党, Nihon Shakai-tō), also referred to as the 'Social Democratic Party of Japan', a major Japanese political party that existed from 1945 to 1996
- Social Democratic Party (Japan, 1926) (社会民衆党, Shakai Minshū-tō), a political party that existed from 1926 to 1932
- Social Democratic Party (Japan, 1901) (社会民主党, Shakai Minshu-tō), a political party that existed briefly in 1901
K
- Kyrgyzstan:
M
N
- Netherlands:
- New Zealand:
P
- Pakistan:
- Peru:
- Poland:
R
- Romania:
S
- San Marino
- Slovakia
- South Africa
- Spain
T
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Transnistria:
U
- United Kingdom
- Ukraine:
Y
- Yemen:
Z
- Zimbabwe:
See also
- Social democracy
- Democratic socialism
- List of democratic socialist parties and organizations
- List of social democratic and democratic socialist parties that have governed
- Socialist International
- Progressive Alliance
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- 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. ...
