A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system. In a one-party state, all opposition parties are either outlawed or have limited and controlled participation in elections. The expression "de facto one-party" is sometimes used to describe a dominant-party system that, unlike a one-party state, allows (at least nominally) multiparty elections, but the existing practices or balance of political power effectively prevent the opposition from winning power.
Membership in the ruling party tends to be relatively small compared to the population; however, this is not a universal rule, as some one-party states, such as Zaire under Mobutu, made the entire citizenry members of the party. Rather, they give out private goods to fellow elites to ensure continued support. One-party, compared to dominant-party dictatorships, structure themselves unlike democracies. They also turn into multi-party democracies at a lower rate than dominant-party dictatorships. While one-party states prohibit opposition parties, some allow for independent candidates to stand for election in competition with party candidates. Therefore, they place elites and sympathetic candidates in key administrative races. For example, the Chinese Communist Party exercises political control by infiltrating village administrations. They view these positions as crucial for gathering information on the population and maintaining a presence in the far reaches of their borders.
One-party states recognize the trade-off between election victory and gathering valuable data. To account for this, the governments have been observed placing local nobility in easy-to-win races. One-party states have also been observed using elections to ensure that only the most popular elites get chosen to office. They also gather data from elections to indicate if a local official is performing poorly in the eyes of the residents.
|100px|center Xi Jinping
|General Secretary
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|Socialism with Chinese characteristics<br/>Marxism-Leninism
|1 October 1949
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|Article 1 of the Constitution: "Leadership by the Communist Party of China is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
|Eight minor non-oppositional parties, officially termed "democratic parties," have legal status as part of the "united front" system, but their leadership is determined by the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department.
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| Cuba
|100px|center Miguel Díaz-Canel
|First Secretary
| Communist Party of Cuba
|Marxism–Leninism<br/>Castroism<br/>Guevarism<br/>Left-wing nationalism
|3 October 1965
|
|Article 5 of the Constitution: "The Communist Party of Cuba, unique, Martiano, Fidelista, and Marxist-Leninist, the organized vanguard of the Cuban nation, sustained in its democratic character as well as its permanent linkage to the people, is the superior driving force of the society and the State."
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| Eritrea
|100px|center Isaias Afwerki
|Chairperson
| People's Front for Democracy and Justice
|Eritrean nationalism<br/>Statism<br/>Left-wing nationalism
|16 February 1994
|
|The People's Front for Democracy and Justice is the only party in Eritrea. The 1997 Constitution has not been enforced.
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| Laos
|100px|center Thongloun Sisoulith
|General Secretary
| Lao People's Revolutionary Party
|Kaysone Phomvihane Thought<br/>Marxism-Leninism
|2 December 1975
|
|Article 3 of the Constitution: "The rights of the multi-ethnic people to be the masters of the country are exercised and ensured through the functioning of the political system with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party as its leading nucleus."
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| North Korea
|100px|center Kim Jong Un
|General Secretary
| Workers' Party of Korea
|Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism<br/>Juche<br/> Communism
|9 September 1948
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|Article 11 of the Constitution: "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea shall conduct all activities under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea."
|Two minor parties are legally recognised, but are under the control of the Workers' Party of Korea
|-
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
|100px|center Brahim Ghali
|Secretary General
| Polisario Front
|Sahrawi nationalism<br/>Arab socialism
|27 February 1976
|
|Article 32 of the Constitution: "Until the complete recovery of national sovereignty, the Frente POLISARIO shall be the political framework that shall unite and mobilise politically the Sahrawis to express their aspirations and legitimate rights to self-determination and independence and to defend their national unity and complete the building of their independent Sahrawi State."
|State with limited recognition, headquartered in Algeria
|-
| Vietnam
|100px|center Tô Lâm
|General Secretary
| Communist Party of Vietnam
|Ho Chi Minh Thought<br/>Marxism-Leninism
|2 September 1945
|
|Article 4 of the Constitution: " Communist Party of Vietnam - the Vanguard of the working class, concurrently the vanguard of the labouring people and Vietnamese nation, faithfully representing the interests of the working class, labouring people and entire nation, and acting upon the Marxist-Leninist doctrine and Ho Chi Minh Thought, is the force leading the State and society."
|Two minor parties, the Democratic Party of Vietnam and Socialist Party of Vietnam, had legal status within the Vietnam Fatherland Front until 1988.
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Former one-party states
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Country
!Party
!Ideology
!Date of establishment
!Date of dissolution
!Duration
!Continent
|-
|data-sort-value="Afghanistan 1977"| Republic of Afghanistan
|National Revolutionary Party
|Pashtun nationalism<br/>Pashtunization<br/>Republicanism<br/>Secularism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
| Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
| People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan-Khalq
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Stalinism<br/>Pashtun nationalism<br/>Anti-imperialism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
| data-sort-value="Afghanistan 1980" | Democratic Republic of Afghanistan/Republic of Afghanistan
| People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan-Parcham (National Fatherland Front)
|Communism (until 1990)<br/>Marxism–Leninism (until 1990)<br/>Afghan nationalism<br/>Anti-imperialism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Albania 1939" | Albanian Kingdom
| Albanian Fascist Party
|Albanian nationalism<br/>Greater Albania<br/>Fascism<br/>Italophilia<br/>Serbophobia<br/>Hellenophobia
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|Guard of Greater Albania
|Albanian nationalism<br/>Fascism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Albania 1943" | Albanian Kingdom
|National Front
|Albanian nationalism<br/>Greater Albania<br/>Anti-communism<br/>Republicanism<br/>Big tent<br/>Agrarian socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Albania1 1944" | Democratic Government of Albania
| Party of Labour of Albania (National Liberation Movement)
|rowspan="3"|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Hoxhaism<br/>Anti-revisionism<br/>Albanian nationalism<br/>State atheism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|rowspan="2"| Party of Labour of Albania (Democratic Front)
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Albania3 1946"| Albania
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Algeria 1962"|
| National Liberation Front
|Arab socialism<br/>Algerian nationalism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Anti-imperialism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Angola 1975"| People's Republic of Angola
| People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
|Communism<br/>Left-wing nationalism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Armenia 1920"| Armenia
|Communist Party of Armenia
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Armenia 1922"| Transcaucasia
|Communist Party of Armenia
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Austria 1934"| Federal State of Austria
| Fatherland Front
|Clerical fascism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Azerbaijan 1920"| Azerbaijan
|Azerbaijan Communist Party
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Azerbaijan 1922"| Transcaucasia
|Azerbaijan Communist Party
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Bangladesh 1975" |
|Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League
|Mujibism<br/>Bengali nationalism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|Jatiya Party
|Bangladeshi nationalism<br/>Conservatism<br/>Authoritarianism<br/>Militarism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Benin 1963"| Dahomey
|Dahomeyan Democratic Party
|African nationalism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Benin 1975"| Benin
| People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism (nominally)
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Bohmen und Mahren 1939"| Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
| National Partnership
|Collaborationism, Nazism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Bulgaria 1946"| Bulgaria
| Bulgarian Communist Party (Fatherland Front)
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="State of Burma1 1943"| State of Burma
|Dobama Sinyetha Asi Ayon
|
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="State of Burma2 1944"| State of Burma
|Maha Bama Asi Ayon
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Cameroon 1975"|
|Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
|Big tent<br/>Nationalism<br/>Francophilia
|1975
|1990
|
|Africa
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Cape Verde 1975" |
| African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
| African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Carpatho-Ukraine 1939"| Carpatho-Ukraine
|Ukrainian National Union
|Nationalism
|
|
|Africa
|-
| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Chad 1962" | Chad
|Chadian Progressive Party
| rowspan="2" |African nationalism<br/>Pan-Africanism<br/>Anti-imperialism<br/>African socialism<br/>Federalism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|National Movement for the Cultural and Social Revolution
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|National Union for Independence and Revolution
|Nationalism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1927"|Guangzhou
| rowspan="4" |Chinese Communist Party
| rowspan="5" |Marxism–Leninism<br/>Mao Zedong Thought<br/>Chinese communism
|1927
|1927
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1927"|Hunan
|1927
|1927
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1927"|Jinggang
|1927
|1928
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1930"|Southwest Jiangxi
|1930
|1931
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1930"| Chinese Soviet Republic
| Chinese Communist Party
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1935"| Xinjiang
|People's Anti-Imperialist Association
|Six Great Policies
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1935"|/Taiwan
| Kuomintang
|Tridemism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="China 1937"|Yan'an
|Chinese Communist Party
|Marxism–Leninism<br/>Mao Zedong Thought<br/>Chinese communism
|1937
|1949
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Comoros 1982"|
|Comorian Union for Progress
|Nationalism
|1982
|1990
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Congo 1969"| People's Republic of the Congo
|Congolese Party of Labour
|Communism, Marxism–Leninism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Costa Rica 1917"| Tinoquista Costa Rica
|Peliquista Party
|Nationalism<br/>Personalism<br/>Authoritarianism
|
|
|
|North America
|-
| data-sort-value="Czechoslovakia 1948" | Czechoslovakia
| Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (National Front)
|Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism<br/>Husakism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Dahomey 1961"| Dahomey
|Dahomeyan Unity Party
|African nationalism<br/>Republicanism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Danzig 1937"| Danzig
| Nazi Party
|Nazism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Djibouti 1977"|
|People's Rally for Progress
|Issa interests
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Dominican Republic 1931"| Dominican Republic
|Dominican Party
|Trujillism<br/>National conservatism<br/>Right-wing populism<br/>Antihaitianismo
|
|
|
|North America
|-
|data-sort-value="East Germany 1949"| East Germany
| Socialist Unity Party of Germany (National Front)
|Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism<br/>Stalinism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Egypt 1956"|
|Liberation Rally
|Egyptian nationalism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Socialism
|
|1957
|
|Africa
|-
|National Union
|Nasserism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Socialism
|1957
|1962
|
|Africa
|-
|Arab Socialist Union
|Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Nasserism
|1961
|1976
|
|Africa
|-
|rowspan="1" data-sort-value="El Salvador 1931"| El Salvador
| National Pro Patria Party
|Fascism<br/>Anti-communism<br/>Conservatism<br/>Agrarian oligarchy
|1933
|1944
|
|Central America
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Equatorial Guinea 1970" |
|United National Workers' Party
|African nationalism<br/>Personalism<br/>Anti-imperialism<br/>Anti-colonialism<br/>Anti-racism<br/>Pan-Africanism<br/>Anti-intellectualism<br/>Totalitarianism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
|African nationalism<br/>Militarism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Eritrea 1991"|
| Eritrean People's Liberation Front
|Left-wing nationalism
|1991 <small>(Provisional government)</small>
1993 <small>(Recognized state)</small>
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Soviet Union 1918"| Estonia
|Russian Communist Party (Central Committee of the Estonian Sections)
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Estonia 1935"| Estonia
|Patriotic League (National Front for the Implementation of the Constitution)
|Estonian nationalism<br/>Personalism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Estonia 1940"| Estonia
|Communist Party of Estonia
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Ethiopia 1984"| Ethiopia
|Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Ethiopia 1987"| Ethiopia
| Workers' Party of Ethiopia
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Gabon 1968"|
|Gabonese Democratic Party
|Conservatism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Georgia 1921"| Georgia
| rowspan="2" |Communist Party of Georgia
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Georgia 1922"| Transcaucasia
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="German Reich 1933"| Nazi Germany
| National Socialist German Workers' Party
|Nazism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="German Reich 1941"| Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories
| National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
|Collaborationism, Dutch irredentism, Dutch nationalism and Nazism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Ghana 1964"|
|Convention People's Party
|Nkrumaism<br/>African socialism<br/>African nationalism<br/>Pan-Africanism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Grenada 1979"| Grenada
|New Jewel Movement
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|
|
|
|North America
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Guatemala 1931" | Guatemala
|Progressive Liberal Party
|Ubicoism<br/>Liberalism<br/>Nationalism<br/>Anti-communism
|1931
|1944
|
|Central America
|-
|National Liberation Movement
|Neo-fascism<br/>Ultraconservatism<br/>Anti-communism
|1954
|1958
|
|Central America
|-
|data-sort-value="Guinea 1958"|
|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally
|African nationalism<br/>African socialism<br/>Pan-Africanism
|1960
|1984
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Guinea-Bissau 1974"|
|African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|1974
|1991
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Haiti 1957"| Haiti
| National Unity Party
|Black nationalism<br/>Haitian nationalism<br/>Right-wing populism<br/>Anti-communism<br/>Anti-Americanism
|
|
|
|North America
|-
|data-sort-value="Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawaiʻi 1894"| Hawaii
|Reform Party
|Americanisation<br/>Annexationism
|
|
|
|North America
|-
|data-sort-value="Hungary 1944"| Government of National Unity
| Arrow Cross Party
|Magyarism<br/>Fascism<br/>Collaborationism<br/>Agrarianism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Hungary 1949"| Hungary
| Hungarian Working People's Party
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Stalinism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Hungary 1956"| Hungary
|Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Kádárism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Indonesia 1945"|
|Indonesian National Party
|Nationalism<br/>Marhaenism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Iran 1975"| Imperial State of Iran
|Rastakhiz Party
|Monarchism<br/>Populism<br/>Secularism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>Third Position
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Iraq 1964"| Iraq
|Iraqi Arab Socialist Union
|Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Nasserism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Iraq 1968"| Iraq
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
|Saddamist Ba'athism<br/>Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Militarism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Italy 1928"| Fascist Italy
| National Fascist Party
|Fascism<br/>Corporatism<br/>Ultranationalism<br/>Totalitarianism
|
|
|
|Europe/Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Italy 1943"| Italian Social Republic
| Republican Fascist Party
|Fascism<br/>Corporatism<br/>Ultranationalism<br/>Totalitarianism<br/>Antisemitism<br/>Collaborationism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Ivory Coast 1960"|
|Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally
|African nationalism<br/>Conservatism<br/>Populism<br/>Houphouëtism<br/>Pan-Africanism
|1960
|1990
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Japan 1940"| Empire of Japan
|Imperial Rule Assistance Association
|Shōwa statism<br/>Militarism
|1940
|1945
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Japan 1942"| Philippine Executive Commission
| Association for Service to the New Philippines
|Filipino nationalism<br/>National conservatism<br/>Fascism<br/>Japanophilia<br/>Collaborationism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Kampuchea 1975"| Kampuchea
| Communist Party of Kampuchea
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Agrarianism<br/>Autarky<br/>Khmer nationalism<br/>Ultranationalism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Kenya 1982"|
|Kenya African National Union
|Kenyan nationalism<br/>Conservatism
|1969 (de facto)<br/>1982 (de jure)
|1991
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="South Korea 1951"|
|Liberal Party
|Ilminism<br/>Conservatism<br/>Korean nationalism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="South Korea 1963"|
|Democratic Republican Party
|Korean nationalism<br/>Conservatism<br/>Corporatism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="South Korea 1981"|
|Democratic Justice Party
|Conservatism<br/>Authoritarianism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Independent State of Croatia 1941" | Independent State of Croatia
|Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement
|Croatian irredentism<br/>Croatian ultranationalism<br/>National conservatism<br/>Social conservatism<br/>Clerical fascism<br/>Fascist corporatism<br/>Political Catholicism<br/>Anti-communism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Latvia 1918"| Latvia
| rowspan="2" |Communist Party of Latvia
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br />Marxism–Leninism<br />Democratic centralism<br />State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Latvia 1940"| Latvia
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Liberia"| Liberia
|True Whig Party
|Black conservatism<br/>Centralization<br/>Protectionism<br/>Whiggism (until 1940s)
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Libya 1971"| Libya
|Arab Socialist Union
|Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Nasserism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Lithuania 1919"| Lithuania–Byelorussia
|Communist Party of Lithuania and Byelorussia
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
| data-sort-value="Lithuania 1927" | Lithuania
| Lithuanian Nationalist Union
|Lithuanian nationalism<br/>National conservatism<br/>Social conservatism<br/>Fascist corporatism<br/>Anti-communism
|1926
|1940
|14 years
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Lithuania 1940"| Lithuania
|Communist Party of Lithuania
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Madagascar 1976"| Democratic Republic of Madagascar
|National Front for the Defense of the Revolution
|Left-wing nationalism<br/>Scientific socialism
|1976
|1989
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Malawi 1964"|
|Malawi Congress Party
|Ubuntu<br/>Conservatism<br/>African nationalism<br/>Anti-colonialism
|1964
|1993
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Mali 1960"|
|Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally
|African nationalism<br/>Pan-Africanism<br/>African socialism
|1960
|1968
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Mali 1976"|
|Democratic Union of the Malian People
|African socialism<br/>Democratic centralism
|1976
|1991
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Manchukuo 1932"| Manchukuo
| Concordia Association
|Fascism<br/>Monarchism<br/>Manchurian nationalism<br/>Pan-Asianism
|
|
|İttihadism
|
|1918
|
|Asia/Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Paraguay 1947"| Paraguay
| Colorado Party
|Conservatism<br/>National conservatism
|1947
|1962
|
|South America
|-
|data-sort-value="Persia 1920"| Persia
|Communist Party of Persia
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|1920
|1921
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Philippines 1943"| Republic of the Philippines
| Association for Service to the New Philippines
|Filipino nationalism, National conservatism, Fascism, Japanophilia, collaborationism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Poland 1947"| Poland
| Polish United Workers' Party (Front of National Unity)
| rowspan="2" |Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Poland 1982"| Poland
| Polish United Workers' Party (Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth)
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Portugal 1930" | Portugal
| rowspan="2" | National Union
| rowspan="2" |Salazarism<br/>Corporatism<br/>Integralismo Lusitano
|
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
| People's National Action (formerly National Union)
|Corporatism<br/>Integralismo Lusitano
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Romania 1938"| Romania
| National Renaissance Front
|Big tent<br/>Romanian nationalism<br/>Monarchism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Romania 1940"| National Legionary State
| Iron Guard
|Legionarism<br/>Clerical fascism<br/>Christian nationalism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Romania 1948"| Romania
| Romanian Communist Party (People's Democratic Front)
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|
|1968
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Romania 1968"| Romania
| Romanian Communist Party (Front of Socialist Unity)
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>National Communism
|1968
|1980
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Romania 1980"| Romania
| Romanian Communist Party (Front of Socialist Unity and Democracy)
|1980
|
|
|Europe
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Rwanda 1965" |
|Parmehutu
|Hutu Power
|1965
|1973
|
|Africa
|-
| National Revolutionary Movement for Development
|Hutu Power<br/>Ultranationalism<br/>Social conservatism<br/>Anti-communism
|1978
|1991
|
|Africa
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="San Marino 1926" | San Marino
|Sammarinese Fascist Party
|Italian fascism<br/>Corporatism
|1926
|1943
|
|Europe
|-
|Republican Fascist Party of San Marino
|Italian fascism
|1943
|1944
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Senegal 1966"|
|Socialist Party of Senegal
|African nationalism<br/>African socialism
|1966
|1974
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Seychelles 1977"|
|Seychelles People's Progressive Front
|Communism<br/>Marxism-Leninism
|1979
|1991
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Sierra Leone 1978"|
|All People's Congress
|African nationalism<br/>Democratic socialism
|1978
|1991
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Slovakia 1939"| Slovak Republic
| Hlinka's Slovak People's Party – Party of Slovak National Unity
|Clerical fascism<br/>Slovak nationalism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Somalia 1976"| Somalia
|Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
|Islamic socialism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Pan-Somalism<br/>Scientific socialism<br/>Somali nationalism
|
|
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="South Yemen 1967"|
| National Liberation Front,
Yemeni Socialist Party
|Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="South Yemen 1978"|
| rowspan="2" | Yemeni Socialist Party
| rowspan="2" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="South Yemen 1994"| Democratic Republic of Yemen
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Soviet Union 1918" | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
|Russian Communist Party
| rowspan="5" |Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|Europe/Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Soviet Union 1922"| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
|Russian Communist Party
|
|
|
|Europe/Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Spain 1924"| Kingdom of Spain
|Patriotic Union
|Spanish nationalism<br/>Political Catholicism<br/>Monarchism<br/>Conservatism
|1924
|1930
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Spain 1939"| Spanish State
| FET y de las JONS
|Francoism<br/>Falangism<br/>Spanish nationalism<br/>traditionalism<br/>National Catholicism<br/>anti-liberalism<br/>Corporatism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Sudan 1971"| Democratic Republic of the Sudan
| Sudanese Socialist Union
|Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism<br/>Anti-communism
|1971
|1985
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Sudan 1989"|
|National Congress Party
|Islamism<br/>Arab nationalism<br/>Salafism<br/>Social conservatism
|1989
|2005
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Syria 1953"| Syrian Republic
|Arab Liberation Movement
|Syrian nationalism<br/>Modernization<br/>Pro-Western
|1953
|1954
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Syria 1963"| Syrian Arab Republic
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (National Progressive Front)
|Neo-Ba'athism<br/>Pan-Arabism<br/>Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism<br/>Militarism
|
|<br/> (de-facto)
|<br/> (de-facto)
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="São Tomé and Príncipe 1975"|
|Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe – Social Democratic Party
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|1975
|1990
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Tanganyika 1961"|
| Tanganyika African National Union
|African nationalism<br/>African socialism<br/>Ujamaa
|1961
|1977
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Tanzania 1977"|
|Chama Cha Mapinduzi
|Ujamaa<br/>African socialism
|1977
|1992
|
|Africa
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Togo 1962" |
|Party of Togolese Unity
|African nationalism
|1962
|1963
|
|Africa
|-
|Rally of the Togolese People
|African nationalism<br/>Right-wing populism
|1969
|1991
|
|Africa
|-
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Tunisia 1963" |
|Neo Destour
|Tunisian nationalism<br/>Bourguibism<br/>Arab nationalism<br/>Secularism
|1963
|1964
|
|Africa
|-
|Socialist Destourian Party
|Tunisian nationalism<br/>Secularism<br/>Bourguibism
|1964
|1981
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Turkey 1923"| (one-party period)
| Republican People's Party
|Kemalism
|1923
|1945
|
|Asia/Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Turkmenistan 1992"|
|Democratic Party of Turkmenistan
|Turkmen nationalism<br/>Secularism<br/>Social conservatism<br/>Catch-all party
|1992
|2008
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Tuva 1921"| Tuva
| Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Asia
|-
|data-sort-value="Uganda 1969"|
| Uganda People's Congress
|Social democracy<br/>African nationalism<br/>Pan-Africanism
|1969
|1971
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Ukraine 1919"| Ukraine
|Communist Party of Ukraine
|Communism<br/>Marxism–Leninism<br/>Democratic centralism<br/>State socialism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="United Arab Republic 1958"|
|National Union
|Arab nationalism<br/>Arab socialism<br/>Pan-Arabism
|1958
|1961
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Upper Volta 1960"| Upper Volta
|Voltaic Democratic Union-African Democratic Rally
|African nationalism<br/>Pan-Africanism
|1960
|1966
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Yugoslavia 1929"| Yugoslavia
|Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy
|Royalism<br/>Yugoslav nationalism<br/>Agrarianism<br/>Centralism<br/>Anti-liberalism
|1929
|1931
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Yugoslavia 1945"| Yugoslavia
| League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia)
|Marxism–Leninism<br/>Titoism<br/>Yugoslavism
|
|
|
|Europe
|-
|data-sort-value="Zaire 1970"| Zaire
|Popular Movement of the Revolution
|Mobutism<br/>Zairean nationalism<br/>Authenticité
|1970
|1990
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Zambia 1972"|
| United National Independence Party
|African socialism<br/>African nationalism
|1972
|1990
|
|Africa
|-
|data-sort-value="Zanzibar 1964"|
| Afro-Shirazi Party
|African nationalism<br/>Marxism–Leninism
|1964
|1977
|
|Africa
|}
See also
- Dominant-party system
- Ban on factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Multi-party system
- Outline of democracy
- Political factionalism
- Political organisation
- Two-party system
- Uniparty
- Unitary parliamentary republic
- Landslide victory