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The centre-left (or center-left) is a political
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
 term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 or organisations (such as think tank
Think tank

A think tank is an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economy, science or technology issues, industrial or business policies, or military advice....
s) whose views stretch from the centre
Centrism

In politics, centrism usually refers to the political idea of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle between different political extremes....
 to the left on the left-right spectrum
Left-Right politics

Left-right politics or the left-right political spectrum is a common way of classifying political positions, ideology, or political party along a one-dimensional political spectrum, with the far-left being radical politics, the Left liberal, the Right conservative, and the far-right reactionary....
, excluding far left
Far left

Far left and extreme left are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within the political spectrum. The terms far left and far right are often used to imply that someone is an Extremism....
 stances.

centre-left includes social liberal
Social liberalism

Social liberalism is a political position that supports heavier economic regulation and more welfare than other types of liberalism, particularly classical liberalism....
s, social democrat
Social democracy

Social democracy is a political philosophy of the left-wing politics or centre-left that emerged in the late 19th century from the socialism movement and continues to exert influence worldwide....
s, progressive
Progressivism

The term progressive has varying meanings in different countries.In some countries, the word refers to left-wing politics. For instance, in the United States, the term progressive emerged in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternativ...
s and also some democratic socialist
Democratic socialism

Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialism movements, tendencies, and organizations, to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation....
s and greens
Green politics

Green politics is a political ideology which places a high importance on ecology and environmentalism goals, and on achieving these goals through broad-based, grassroots, participatory democracy....
 (in particular the eco-socialist
Eco-socialism

Eco-socialism, Green socialism or Socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of Marxism, socialism, Green politics, ecology and the anti-globalization movement....
s). Centre-left supporters accept market allocation of resources in a mixed economy
Mixed economy

A mixed economy is an economic system that incorporates a mixture of private and government ownership or control, or a mixture of capitalism and socialism....
 with a significant public sector
Public sector

The public sector is the part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal....
 and a thriving private sector
Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy which is both run for private profit and is not controlled by the state. By contrast, enterprises that are part of the state are part of the public sector; private, non-profit organizations are regarded as part of the voluntary sector....
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The centre-left (or center-left) is a political
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
 term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 or organisations (such as think tank
Think tank

A think tank is an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economy, science or technology issues, industrial or business policies, or military advice....
s) whose views stretch from the centre
Centrism

In politics, centrism usually refers to the political idea of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle between different political extremes....
 to the left on the left-right spectrum
Left-Right politics

Left-right politics or the left-right political spectrum is a common way of classifying political positions, ideology, or political party along a one-dimensional political spectrum, with the far-left being radical politics, the Left liberal, the Right conservative, and the far-right reactionary....
, excluding far left
Far left

Far left and extreme left are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within the political spectrum. The terms far left and far right are often used to imply that someone is an Extremism....
 stances.

Ideological definition of the centre-left

The centre-left includes social liberal
Social liberalism

Social liberalism is a political position that supports heavier economic regulation and more welfare than other types of liberalism, particularly classical liberalism....
s, social democrat
Social democracy

Social democracy is a political philosophy of the left-wing politics or centre-left that emerged in the late 19th century from the socialism movement and continues to exert influence worldwide....
s, progressive
Progressivism

The term progressive has varying meanings in different countries.In some countries, the word refers to left-wing politics. For instance, in the United States, the term progressive emerged in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternativ...
s and also some democratic socialist
Democratic socialism

Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialism movements, tendencies, and organizations, to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation....
s and greens
Green politics

Green politics is a political ideology which places a high importance on ecology and environmentalism goals, and on achieving these goals through broad-based, grassroots, participatory democracy....
 (in particular the eco-socialist
Eco-socialism

Eco-socialism, Green socialism or Socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of Marxism, socialism, Green politics, ecology and the anti-globalization movement....
s). Centre-left supporters accept market allocation of resources in a mixed economy
Mixed economy

A mixed economy is an economic system that incorporates a mixture of private and government ownership or control, or a mixture of capitalism and socialism....
 with a significant public sector
Public sector

The public sector is the part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal....
 and a thriving private sector
Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy which is both run for private profit and is not controlled by the state. By contrast, enterprises that are part of the state are part of the public sector; private, non-profit organizations are regarded as part of the voluntary sector....
. Centre-left policies tend to favour limited state intervention
Economic interventionism

Economic interventionism or economic planning is any action taken by a government, beyond the basic regulation of fraud and enforcement of contracts, in an effort to affect its own economics....
 in the economy
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
 in matters pertaining to the public interest
Public interest

The public interest refers to the "common well-being" or "general welfare." The public interest is central to policy debates, politics, democracy and the nature of government itself....
. The centre-left also often favours moderate environmentalist
Environmentalism

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement centered on a concern for the Conservation movement and improvement of the environment ....
 policies and generally, though not universally, supports individual freedom on moral issues whereas the centre-right
Centre-right

The centre-right is a politics term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political party, or organisations whose views stretch from the centrism to the right-wing on the Left-Right politics, excluding far right stances....
 believes it is the government's role to enforce morality.

Examples of centre-left parties

Examples of centre-left political parties include:
  • In Hong Kong
    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
    :
    • League of Social Democrats
      League of Social Democrats

      The League of Social Democrats is a radical pro-democratic political organization in Hong Kong. Its declared purpose is to "take a clear-cut stand to defend the interests of the grassroots"....
  • In Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    :
    • ARI - Support for an Egalitarian Republic
      Support for an Egalitarian Republic

      Support for an Egalitarian Republic is a social liberal Argentina political party, founded in 2001 by Elisa Carri?. It is a member of the Civic Coalition with centrist and centre-right parties....
    • Justicialist Party
      Justicialist Party

      The Justicialist Party is a Peronism political party in Argentina, and the largest component of the Peronist movement.It is led by former president Dr....
  • In Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    :
    • Australian Labor Party
      Australian Labor Party

      The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
    • Australian Democrats
      Australian Democrats

      The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a centrism or social liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader....
    • Australian Greens
      Australian Greens

      The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is a Worldwide green parties List of political parties in Australia.The party has its eastern Australian origins in the Franklin Dam campaign in Tasmania in the 1980s, and in Western Australia arising from concerns about nuclear disarmament....
  • In Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
    :
    • Social Democratic Party of Austria
      Social Democratic Party of Austria

      The Social Democratic Party of Austria is one of the oldest parties in Austria. The SP? is one of the major parties in Austria and has particularly strong ties to labor unions and the Austrian Chamber of Labour ....
    • The Greens – The Green Alternative
  • In the Basque Country
    Basque Country (autonomous community)

    The Basque Country is an Autonomous Community in northern Spain.The Basque Country was granted the status of Historical regions in Spain within Spain with the Spanish Constitution of 1978....
    :
    • Basque Social Democracy (EA)
      Eusko Alkartasuna

      Eusko Alkartasuna is a Basque nationalist political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA....
  • In the Bahamas
    • Progressive Liberal Party
      Progressive Liberal Party

      The Progressive Liberal Party is a populism party in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas commonly abbreviated PLP.In The Bahamas National Assembly, the PLP has 17 out of 41 seats....
  • In Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
    :
    • Democratic Labour Party
      Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)

      The Democratic Labour Party is a populism, social democracy political party of Brazil. It was founded in 1979 by left-wing leader Leonel Brizola as an attempt to reorganize the Brazilian leftist forces during the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship....
    • Brazilian Socialist Party
      Brazilian Socialist Party

      The Brazilian Socialist Party , is a political party in Brazil.It was founded as the Party of the Democratic Left in 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, and took its current name on August 6, 1947....
    • Workers' Party
      Workers' Party (Brazil)

      The Workers' Party is a center-left Social democracy political party in Brazil. It is recognized as one of the largest and most important Left-wing politics leadership movements of Latin America....
  • In Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     (federal parties):
    • New Democratic Party
      New Democratic Party

      The New Democratic Party is a political party in Canada with a progressivism social democracy philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels....
    • Green Party of Canada
      Green Party of Canada

      The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian political parties of Canada political party founded in 1983 in Canada with 10,000?12,000 registered members as of October 2008....
    • Liberal Party of Canada
      Liberal Party of Canada

      The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is a major political party in Canada. The party is positioned in the centre-left of the Politics of Canada....
  • In Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
    :
    • Socialist Party of Chile
      Socialist Party of Chile

      The Socialist Party of Chile is part of the ruling Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. Its historical leader was the late President of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens, deposed by General Augusto Pinochet....
    • Party for Democracy
      Party for Democracy

      The Party for Democracy is a governing political party in Chile; it is social democratic in its political orientation.The party nominated, as part of the Concertacion , in the 1999/2000 president of Chile elections Ricardo Lagos Escobar, the main leader of the party, who won 48.0 % in the first round and was elected with 51.3 % in the secon...
  • In Croatia
    Croatia

    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
    :
    • Social Democratic Party of Croatia
      Social Democratic Party of Croatia

      The Social Democratic Party of Croatia is the main center-left, social democratic political party in Croatia. It currently holds 56 seats out of 153 in the Croatian Parliament....
  • In Czech Republic
    Czech Republic

    The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
    :
    • Czech Social Democratic Party
      Czech Social Democratic Party

      The Czech Social Democratic Party is the Social Democracy political party in the Czech Republic.The party won the Czech legislative election, 2002 with 70 of 200 representatives in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic....
  • In Cyprus
    Cyprus

    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
    :
    • Movement for Social Democracy
      Movement for Social Democracy

      The Movement for Social Democracy United Democratic Union of Centre is a centre-left social-democratic political party in Cyprus. It is led by Yannakis Omirou....
  • In Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
    :
    • Republican Party
      Republican Party (Faroe Islands)

      The Republic is a left-of-centre political party in the Faroe Islands committed to Faroe Islands Independence. It was founded in 1948 as a reaction to independence not being proclaimed after a public vote on the matter showed a marginal majority for it in 1946....
       (Faroe Islands)
    • Social Democrats
      Social Democrats (Denmark)

      The Social Democrats , is a Denmark political party. It is Danish parliamentary election, 2007 the second largest party with 25.5% of votes and 45 of 175 seats....
    • Socialist People's Party
  • In the European Parliament
    European Parliament

    The European Parliament is the only direct election parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union , it forms the bicameral Institutions of the European Union#Legislature of the Institutions of the European Union and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world....
    :
    • Party of European Socialists
      Party of European Socialists

      The Party of European Socialists is a European political party comprising of thirty-three Socialism, Social democracy and labour movement parties from each European Union member state and other European nations such as Norway....
    • European Democratic Party
      European Democratic Party

      The European Democratic Party is a centrism European political party in favour of European integration. It was initiated on April 16 2004 and formally founded on December 9 in Brussels....
  • In Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
    :
    • Green League
      Green League

      The Green League , is a Green party political party in Finland. The current chairperson is Tarja Cronberg....
    • Social Democratic Party of Finland
      Social Democratic Party of Finland

      The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the most influential political party in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party ....
  • In France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    :
    • Socialist Party
      Socialist Party (France)

      The Socialist Party is the largest left-wing politics political party in France. It replaced the French Section of the Workers' International in 1969....
    • Left Radical Party
      Left Radical Party

      The Radical Party of the Left is a minor Social liberalism and social democracy list of political parties in France.The PRG retains some support among middle-class voters and in traditional Radical areas in the South-West, but it only gains parliamentary representation by courtesy of the Socialist Party , with which it has been in close al...
    • Democratic Movement
      Democratic Movement (France)

      The Democratic Movement is a Centrism, Social liberalism and pro-European France list of political parties in France that was founded by centrist politician Fran?ois Bayrou to succeed his Union for French Democracy and to contest the French legislative election, 2007, after his strong showing in the French presidential election, 2007....
  • In Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    :
    • Social Democratic Party of Germany
      Social Democratic Party of Germany

      The Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. After World War II, under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher, the SPD reestablished itself as an ideological party, representing the interests of the working class and the trade unions....
    • Alliance '90/The Greens
      Alliance '90/The Greens

      The Alliance '90/The Greens is a political party in Germany which originated from the merger of the party "The Greens" and Alliance 90....
  • In Ghana
    Ghana

    The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders C?te d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south....
    :
    • National Democratic Congress
      National Democratic Congress

      National Democratic Congress may mean:* National Democratic Congress * National Democratic Congress ...
  • In Great Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
    :
    • Labour Party
      Labour Party (UK)

      The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
    • Plaid Cymru - Party of Wales
    • Scottish National Party
      Scottish National Party

      The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
  • In Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    :
    • Panhellenic Socialist Movement
      Panhellenic Socialist Movement

      The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, better known as PASOK , is a Greece centre-left political party. In 1981 PASOK formed the first socialist government in Greece's history, and subsequently ruled the country for most of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s....
  • In Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
    :
    • Hungarian Socialist Party
      Hungarian Socialist Party

      The Hungarian Socialist Party is a Social Democratic party in Hungary. It is the partial successor of the communism Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party , which ruled Hungary between 1956 and 1989....
  • In Iceland
    Iceland

    Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
    :
    • Social Democratic Alliance
  • In India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    :
    • Indian National Congress
      Indian National Congress

      Indian National Congress-I is a major political party in India. Founded in 1885 by Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Allan Octavian Hume, and William Wedderburn, the Indian National Congress became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement, with over 15 million memb...
    • Nationalist Congress Party
      Nationalist Congress Party

      The Nationalist Congress Party is an Indian political party based primarily in the state of Maharashtra....
  • In Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
    :
    • Labour Party
      Labour Party (Ireland)

      The Labour Party is a democratic socialist and social democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded by James Connolly in 1912 as the political wing of the Irish Congress of Trades Unions, it claims to be the country's oldest continuous political party....
    • Green Party
      Green Party (Ireland)

      The Green Party is a Worldwide green parties political party in Ireland. It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes....
  • In Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    :
    • Labor Party
    • Kadima
      Kadima

      Kadima is a centrist List of political parties in Israel in Israel founded by like-minded Likud and Israeli Labor Party politicians. It became the largest party in the Knesset after the Israeli legislative election, 2006, winning 29 of the 120 seats....
       (centrist/centre-left)
  • In Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    :
    • Democratic Party
      Democratic Party (Italy)

      The Democratic Party is a centre-left List of political parties in Italy.It was founded on 14 October 2007 as a merger of various left-wing and centrist parties which were part of the The Union in the Italian general election, 2006....
    • Socialist Party
      Socialist Party (Italy)

      The Socialist Party is a social democracy List of political parties in Italy.The party was founded in 2007?2008 by the merger of six minor social-democratic parties and associations and the participation of some individual members:...
  • In Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    :
    • Democratic Party of Japan
      Democratic Party of Japan

      The is a Social liberalism political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several smaller parties. It is the second-largest party in the House of Representatives of Japan and the largest party in the House of Councillors, and it constitutes the primary opposition to the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party ....
    • Social Democratic Party
      Social Democratic Party (Japan)

      The Social Democratic Party...
  • In Republic of Korea:
    • United Democratic Party
      United Democratic Party

      There are several political parties called the United Democratic Party.* United Democratic Party * United Democratic Party * United Democratic Party ...
  • In The Netherlands:
    • Democrats 66
      Democrats 66

      Democrats 66 is a Politics of the Netherlands progressivism, Social liberalism and Radicalism #Continental Europe and Latin America democracy political party....
    • GreenLeft
      GreenLeft

      GroenLinks is a Politics of the Netherlands green party political party.GreenLeft was formed in GreenLeft#before 1989 as a merger of four leftwing political parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party Radicals and the Evangelische Volkspartij....
    • Labour Party
      Labour Party (Netherlands)

      The Dutch Labour Party , literally "Party of the Labour") is a social democracy political party in the Netherlands. Since the Dutch general election, 2003, the PvdA is the second largest political party in the Netherlands....
  • In New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
    :
    • New Zealand Labour Party
      New Zealand Labour Party

      The New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. It describes itself as centre-left and socially Liberalism, and Progressivism, and has been one of the two primary parties of New Zealand politics since 1935....
  • In Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland

    conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
    • Social Democratic and Labour Party
      Social Democratic and Labour Party

      The Social Democratic and Labour Party is one of the two major Irish nationalism parties in Northern Ireland. During the The Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA cease-fire in 1994, it has lost ground to its rival Sinn F?in, which, in 2001, became the more p...
  • In Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
    :
    • Norwegian Labour Party
      Norwegian Labour Party

      The Norwegian Labour Party is a social democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Second cabinet Stoltenberg and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....
  • In Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
    :
    • Institutional Revolutionary Party
      Institutional Revolutionary Party

      The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexico political party that wielded power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years....
    • Party of the Democratic Revolution
      Party of the Democratic Revolution

      The Party of the Democratic Revolution is one of the three List_of_political_parties_in_Mexico....
    • Convergencia
  • In Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    :
    • Pakistan Peoples Party
      Pakistan Peoples Party

      The Pakistan Peoples Party : is a centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. To date, its leader has always been a member of the Bhutto family....
    • Awami National Party
      Awami National Party

      The Awami National Party, is a secular Pashtun political party in Pakistan. Its main area of electoral influence is in the Pashtun dominated areas of the North-West Frontier Province....
  • In the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
    :
    • Liberal Party
      Liberal Party (Philippines)

      The Liberal Party of the Philippines is a liberal parties in the Philippines, founded on November 24, 1945 by a breakaway from the Nacionalista Party ....
    • Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan
    • Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino
    • United Opposition
      United Opposition (Philippines)

      The United Opposition is a political party in the Philippines. It called itself the "Genuine Opposition" coalition throughout the duration of the Philippine general election, 2007....
  • In Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    :
    • Democratic Left Alliance
      Democratic Left Alliance

      Democratic Left Alliance is a centre-left Polish social democracy political party. A coalition of left-wing parties used this name from 1991 to 1999....
    • Social Democracy of Poland
    • Labour Union
      Labour Union (Poland)

      Labour Union is a Poland left wing political party. It is a member of the Party of European Socialists, and Socialist International.Labour Union was formed in June, 1992....
    • The Democratic Party
      Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl

      The Democratic Party is a Social liberalism in Poland, publicly announced on February 28 and formally established on May 9, 2005 as an "enlargement" of the Freedom Union , which it legally succeeds....
  • In Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
    :
    • Socialist Party
      Socialist Party (Portugal)

      Partido Socialista redirects here. For other parties with similar names see Socialist Party.The Socialist Party is a political party of Portugal....
  • In Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
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    • Fair Russia
      Fair Russia

      Fair Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life , also translated as Russia of Justice: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, Justice Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life and Just Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, was formed on 28 October 2006 as a merger of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party....
  • In Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
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    • Democratic Party
      Democratic Party (Serbia)

      The Democratic Party is the main center-left political party in Serbia. It claims continuity of the Democratic Party .It is the largest political party in Serbia in terms of sitting National Assembly of Serbia, and in what respects the international arena, the Democratic Party is a member of the Socialist International and Party of Europea...
  • In Slovakia
    Slovakia

    Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
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    • Direction - Social Democracy
      Direction - Social Democracy

      The Direction ? Social Democracy party ? before January 1 2005 called Direction ?, often just Smer, is a left wing political party in Slovakia, led by Robert Fico....
  • In Slovenia
    Slovenia

    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
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    • Socialni demokrati
      Social Democrats (Slovenia)

      The Social Democrats is a centre-left political party in Slovenia, currently led by Borut Pahor. Until 2005, it was called United List of Social Democrats ....
  • In South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
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    • United Democratic Movement
      United Democratic Movement

      The United Democratic Movement is a centre-left, social-democratic, Politics of South Africa political party, formed by a prominent former National Party leader, Roelf Meyer former African National Congress and Bantustan leader, Bantu Holomisa and John Taylor former ANC REC member in 1997....
  • In Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
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    • Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
      Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

      The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, commonly abbreviated by its Spanish initials, PSOE , is the ruling party in Spain and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Carlism, founded in 1833....
  • In Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
    • Sri Lanka Freedom Party
      Sri Lanka Freedom Party

      The Sri Lanka Freedom Party is one of the major political party in Sri Lanka. It was founded by Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike in 1951 and, since then, has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri Lankan political arena....
  • In Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
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    • Swedish Social Democratic Party
      Swedish Social Democratic Party

      The Swedish Social Democratic Party, , contests elections as 'Labour' Party - Social Democrats' , commonly referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden....
  • In Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
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    • Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
      Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

      The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is a social democracy party in Switzerland.It was founded on October 21, 1888 and is one of the four leading coalition political party in Switzerland....
  • In Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
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    • Democratic Left Party
      Democratic Left Party (Turkey)

      The Democratic Left Party is a Turkey political party....
    • Republican People's Party
      Republican People's Party (Turkey)

      The Republican People's Party is the oldest political party in the Turkey and is the main party of the Centre-left. The party was established during the Congress of Sivas as a union of resistance groups against the invasion of Anatolia....
    • Social Democratic People's Party
      Social Democratic People's Party (Turkey)

      The current Social Democratic People's Party or SHP is a Turkey left Social democracy political party established in 2002 by Murat Karayal?in, former Ankara Metropolitan Mayor and Foreign Minister ....
  • In the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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    • United States Democratic Party
    • Green Party
      Green Party (United States)

      One of the political parties in the United States, and similar in mission to many of the worldwide Green party, the Greens have been active as a third party since 2001....
    • Democratic Socialists of America
      Democratic Socialists of America

      Democratic Socialists of America is a social democracy/Democratic socialism organization in the United States and the U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, a federation of Social democracy, Democratic socialism and Labour Party and organizations....
  • In Uruguay
    Uruguay

    Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
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    • Frente Amplio


See also

  • Centrism
    Centrism

    In politics, centrism usually refers to the political idea of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle between different political extremes....
  • Left-wing politics
    Left-wing politics

    In politics, left-wing, leftist, and the Left are terms applied to Social progressivism and Egalitarianism positions. Originally, during the French Revolution, left-wing referred to seating arrangements in parliament; those who sat on the left opposed the monarchy and supported Political radicalism reform....
  • Left-wing political parties
    Left-wing political parties

    The following is a list of active left-wing political parties. It includes parties from the centre-left to the far left and ultra left.*Antigua ? Antigua Labour Party...
  • Far-left
  • Ultra-left
  • Left-Right politics
    Left-Right politics

    Left-right politics or the left-right political spectrum is a common way of classifying political positions, ideology, or political party along a one-dimensional political spectrum, with the far-left being radical politics, the Left liberal, the Right conservative, and the far-right reactionary....
  • Centre-right
    Centre-right

    The centre-right is a politics term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political party, or organisations whose views stretch from the centrism to the right-wing on the Left-Right politics, excluding far right stances....
  • Ideology
    Ideology

    An ideology is a set of aims and ideas, especially in politics. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society....