List of political parties in Czechoslovakia

This article lists political parties in Czechoslovakia (1918–1992).

Political parties

Political parties in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)

Czechoslovak parties

Main

• Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) – communist
• Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (ČSDSD) – social democratic
• Czechoslovak National Social Party (ČSNS) – national socialist
• Czechoslovak Traders' Party (ČŽOS) – liberal
• Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL) – christian democratic
• Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants (RSZML) – agrarian
• Hlinka's Slovak People's Party (HSĽS) – christian Slovak nationalist
• Slovak National and Peasant Party (SNS) – Slovak nationalist
• Czechoslovak National Democracy (ČsND) – national conservative
• National Unification (NSj) – successor of ČsND, national conservative
• National Fascist Community (NOF) – fascist

Other

• Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine – communist
• Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Leninists) – communist (Right Opposition)
• Independent Communist Party – communist
• Independent Socialist Workers Party
• Socialist Association
• Independent Radical Social Democratic Party
• Socialist Party of the Czechoslovak Working People – socialist
• Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of Law
• Baťovci – regionalist
• National Labour Party – liberal
• National People's Party (NSL) – christian democratic
• Czechoslovak Agrarian and Conservative Party – conservative splitter group from RSZML
• Juriga's Slovak People's Party – christian Slovak nationalist
• Vlajka – fascist

German parties

Sudeten German

• German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP) – social democratic, activist
• German Free Social Party (DDFP) – social liberal, activist
• German Traders' Party – liberal, activist
• German Labour and Economic Community (DAWG) – liberal, activist
• German Christian Social People's Party – christian democratic, activist
• Farmers' League (BdL) – agrarian, activist
• Sudeten German Rural League – agrarian, negativist
• German National Party (DNP) – nationalist, negativist
• Sudeten German Party (SdP) – nazist
• German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP) – nazist, negativist

Other

• German Electoral Coalition – coalition out of BdL, DAWG and KdP
• Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division) – part of the KSČ
• Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party – social democratic, Carpathian German minority rights
• Zipser German Party – Carpathian German minority rights
• Carpathian German Party (KdP) – Carpathian German minority rights

Hungarian parties

• Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party (MNSD) – social democratic
• West Slovakian Christian Socialist Party (NKS) – christian democratic
• Provincial Christian-Socialist Party (OKSZP) – christian democratic, nationalist
• United Hungarian Party – successor of OKSZP and MNP, nationalist
• Hungarian National Party (MNP) – nationalist

Ruthenian parties

• Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine – communist
• Socialist League of the New East – narodist
• Social Democratic Workers' Party in Subcarpathian Rus' – social democratic, ukrainophile, partner of ČSDSD
• Carpatho-Russian Labour Party of Small Peasants and Landless – narodnist, russophile, partner of ČSNS
• Ruthenian Peasants Party – christian democratic, agrarian, ukrainophile, partner of ČSL
• Autonomous Agrarian Union – agrarian, russophile
• Russian National Party – russophile, partner of ČsND
• Russian National Autonomous Party – fascist, russophile

Jewish parties

• Jewish Party – zionist
• Jewish Republican Party – successor of Jewish Economic Party, Haredi, agrarian, partner of RSZML
• Jewish Economic Party – successor of Jewish Conservative Party, Haredi, agrarian, partner of RSZML
• Jewish Conservative Party – Haredi

Lechite parties

• Polish Socialist Workers Party (PSPR) – socialist
• Silesian People's Party – Silesian separatist
• Polish People's Party (PSL) – agrarian socialist
• Union of Silesian Catholics in the Czechoslovak Republic – christian democratic

Political parties created in the Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–1939)

• German People's Group in Czecho-Slovakia
• National Labour Party (1938) (NSP)
• Party of National Unity (SNJ)

Political parties created in the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1944–1948)

• Democratic Party (DS)
• Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS)
• Freedom Party (SS)
• Labour Party (SP)

Political parties in Communist Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)

• National Front of Czechs and Slovaks

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS)
Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL)
Czechoslovak Socialist Party (ČSS)
Freedom Party (SS)
Party of Slovak Revival (SSO)

• Club of Committed Non-Party Members (1968)

Political parties created in the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1989–1992)

• Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) (ODS)
• Civic Democratic Party (Slovakia) (ODS)
• Christian Democratic Party (KDS)
• Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)
• Civic Forum (OF)
• Civic Movement (OH)
• Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA)
• Conservative Party (KS)
• Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN)
• Christian and Democratic Union (KDU)
• Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS)
• Friends of Beer Party (SPP)
• Public Against Violence (VPN)
• Civic Democratic Union (ODÚ)
• Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia) (SDĽ)
• Party of the Democratic Left (Czech Republic) (SDL)
• Peasants' Party of Slovakia (RSS)
• Pensioners' Movement for Life Security (HDŽJ)
• Liberal-Social Union (LSU)
• Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia (SPR–RSČ)
• Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM)
• Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS)
• Union of Communists of Slovakia (ZKS)
• Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 (KSS '91)
• Coexistence (political party)
• The Czech Crown (Monarchist Party of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia) (KČ)
• Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement (MKDM)
• Hungarian Civic Party (MOS)
• Green Party (Czech Republic) (SZ)
• Green Party (Slovakia) (SZ)
• Association of Radicals for the United States of Europe (AR)
• Masaryk Democratic Party (MDS)
• Movement for Autonomous Democracy–Party for Moravia and Silesia (HSD–SMS)
• Slovak National Party (SNS)
• Democratic Labour Party (DSP)
• Liberal Democratic Party (LDS)
• Party of the National Unification of Slovaks (SNZS)
• Party of Moravian Countryside (SMV)
• Moravian-Silesian Movement (MSH)
• Moravian Civic Movement (MOH)
• Moravian National Party (MNS)
• Czechoslovak Social Democracy (ČSSD)
• Social Democratic Party of Slovakia (SDSS)
• Roma Civic Initiative (ROI)

See also

• List of political parties in the Czech Republic
• List of political parties in Slovakia