List of political parties in Surrow
Registered parties
According to the Elections Act, registered parties are political parties who are registered with the Surrowese Electoral Authority. In order to be registered as a political party with the Surrowese Electoral Authority, a political party must:
- Have signatures of at least five hundred (500) voters across Surrow with a minimum of sixty (60) voters living in at least seven (7) constituencies, and
- Have nominated at least three (3) candidates across Surrow to the Surrowese Parliament, with at least one (1) candidate living outside the county or district where the party is headquartered, or
- Have held a seat in Parliament immediately prior to dissolution of parliament, regardless of whether it has met the above requirements, or
- Has been in existence prior to the passage of the act, regardless of whether it met any of the above requirements
If the criteria is met, the Surrowese Electoral Authority will register the party unless the name of the party is "liable to cause confusion" among voters.
Official parties are entitled to have candidates display their party affiliation on the ballot, to incur expenses, receive and ask for contributions, to field candidates for national elections, and to be reimbursed for electoral expenses.
Represented parties
Party | Abbr. | Ideology | Spectrum | First leader | Current leader | Year formed | MPs | ||
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United People's Party | UPP | Conservatism Economic liberalism Pro-Albrennianism |
Centre-right | Ted Fisher | Dwight Timbrell | 1934 | 45 / 68
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Alliance of Cooperativists and Trade Unionists | ACT | Socialism Social democracy Social liberalism |
Left | Ian Withers | Wyatt Martell | 1965 | 22 / 68
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Our Surrow | OSU | Liberalism pro-Albrennian |
Centre | Trevor Morrow | Seth Fraser | 1998 | 1 / 68
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Parties not represented in Parliament
Party | Abbr. | Ideology | Spectrum | First leader | Current leader | Year formed | MPs | ||
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Economic Union Party | EUP | Unification with Albrennia Libertarianism |
Centre-right | Jim Anderson | Gavin Brockhouse | 1947 | 0 / 68
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Green Party | GPS | Environmentalism Green politics |
Left | Rhys Molson Brenda Broberg |
Alexander Douglas Chelsea Lachner |
1996 | 0 / 68
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Reg Finck's For The Future | RFF | Personalism Social conservatism |
Right | Reg Finck | 2004 | 0 / 68
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Surrowese Communist Party | SCP | Communism Anti-Albrennianism |
Far-left | Lyle Green | Lois Merritt | 1927 | 0 / 68
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Unregistered parties
De-registered parties
The Surrowese Electoral Authority maintains a list of de-registered parties that were previously registered with the Surrowese Electoral Authority.
Non-registered parties
The Surrowese Electoral Authority does not keep track of non-registered parties, and candidates from non-registered parties are to be treated as independent politicians for electoral purposes.