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)

Logo Party Name Abbr. Political Position Ideology
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia KSČ Left-wing to Far-left Communism
Socialism with a human face
Marxism–Leninism
Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party ČSDSD Center-left to Left-wing Social democracy
Left-wing populism
Czechoslovak National Social Party ČSNS Center-left Popular socialism
Czechoslovakism
Social liberalism
Czechoslovak Traders' Party ČŽOS Center-right to Right-wing Liberalism
Conservatism
Economic Nationalism
Czechoslovak People's Party ČSL Center-right Christian democracy
Social conservatism
Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants RSZML Center-right Agrarianism
Conservatism
Hlinka's Slovak People's Party HSĽS Far-right Slovak Clerical Fascism
Slovak National and Peasant Party SNS Right-wing Slovak nationalism
National conservatism
Autonomism
Czechoslovak National Democracy ČsND Right-wing National liberalism
National conservatism
Czechoslovak Nationalism
National Unification NSj Right-wing to Far-right National conservatism
Czechoslovak nationalism
Agrarianism
National Fascist Community NOF Far-right Fascism
Antisemitism
Anti-communism
Anti-Hungarian sentiment
Pan-Slavism

German parties

Sudeten German
Logo Party Name Abbr. Political Position Ideology
German Social Democratic Workers' Party DSAP Center-left to left-wing German minority interests
Social democracy
Democratic socialism
Activism
Farmers' League BdL Center to center-right Agrarianism
Conservatism
German nationalism
Activism
Sudeten German Party SdP Far-right Nazism
  • German nationalism
  • Pan-Germanism
  • Volksgemeinschaft

Negativism

German Christian Social People's Party DCVP Center-right to right-wing Conservatism
Political Catholicism
Activism
Sudeten German Rural League SdLB Far-right German nationalism
Antisemitism
Agrarianism
Negativism
German National Party DNP Right-wing German nationalism
Negativism
German National Socialist Workers' Party DNSAP Far-right Nazism
  • Pan-Germanism
  • German nationalism
  • Anti-Marxism
  • Volksgemeinschaft

Negativism

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
  • German Free Social Party (de; cs) (DDFP) – social liberal, activist
  • German Traders' Party (de; cs) – liberal, activist
  • German Labour and Economic Community (cs) (DAWG) – liberal, activist

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 (hu; sk) – 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 (pl; cs) – christian democratic
Other
  • Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine – communist
  • Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Leninists) – communist (Right Opposition)
  • Independent Communist Party (cs) – 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 (cs) – regionalist
  • National Labour Party – liberal
  • National People's Party (cs) (NSL) – christian democratic
  • Czechoslovak Agrarian and Conservative Party – conservative splitter group from RSZML
  • Juriga's Slovak People's Party – christian Slovak nationalist
  • Vlajka – fascist

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)

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)

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