List of frivolous political parties

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This is a list of political parties that have been created for frivolous purposes. See joke political party.

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[edit] Australia

[edit] Belarus

[edit] Canada

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Estonia

  • Independent Royalists (Sõltumatud Kuningriiklased) (defunct after winning 8 seats out of 101 in 1992)

[edit] Germany

  • Die PARTEI ('The Party'; Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Protection of Animals, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative)
  • German Beer-Drinkers Union

[edit] Hungary

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] Norway

[edit] Poland

[edit] Romania

[edit] Russia

[edit] Spain

[edit] Sweden

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] United States

[edit] Pop culture

A special episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, titled Election Night Special, makes fun of the British electoral and party system and the broadcasting of elections.

In the programme, the main competing parties are called:

  • the Silly Party
  • the Sensible Party

There are also two fringe parties called:

  • the Slightly Silly Party
  • the Very Silly Party

In Blackadder the Third, during the by-election for the rotten borough Dunny-on-the-Wold, there is a candidate for the Standing at the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party'.

This party's policies include:

  • Compulsory servings of asparagus at breakfast
  • Free corsets for the under-5s
  • Abolition of slavery

(The abolition of slavery is actually not a real policy, but merely something they put in as a joke.)

Other parties standing for this by-election include:

  • 'The Adder Party' led by George, Prince Regent, who is described by his party newssheet as a "great moral and spiritual leader of the nation", but is described by almost everybody else as a "fat, flatulant git."
  • 'The Keep Royalty, White Rat Catching, Safe Sewage Residents' Party' led by Sir Horace Balsam.

In the BBC comedy Dead Ringers, Jon Culshaw walked around a town centre on behalf of 'the Lovely Party' in an election special. Their policies included 'On the spot fines for colour clashes'.

In an episode of Little Britain, character Daffyd Thomas is campaigning for his party, the 'Gay Rights for Gays' party.

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