In politics, a political party was a group with the same ideology.
United Kingdom[]
Major[]
In the 17th and 18th century, Parliament was made up of the Tories and the Whigs. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep) The Tories were followers of the King while the Whigs opposed the divine right of the King and advocated for free trade. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
In the 20th century, Barbara Wright was a supporter of the Conservative Party but they were "not [her] side" as she was "not that bothered" with politics. (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane) They were also known as "Tories" and existed in the 21st century. (PROSE: Head of State)
The Labour Party existed in the 20th (WC: Amy's History Hunt) and 21st century. (PROSE: Head of State)
Ian Chesterton was a supporter of the Liberal Party despite him saying "we never win". (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane) Jeremy Thorpe was the leader of the Liberal Party. (PROSE: Rise of the Dominator) A Liberal coalition made of Liberals, disenfranchised Tories and Socialists, as well as minor fringe parties was elected (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune) and Jeremy Thorpe did become Prime Minister by 1973. (PROSE: Rise of the Dominator, TV: The Green Death)
Upon becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as "Harold Saxon" with the Vote Saxon campaign, the Saxon Master accused the members of his Cabinet of abandoning their parties when they saw the vote swinging his way. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
Minor[]
The British Union of Fascists was founded by Oswald Mosley prior to World War II, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)
George Orwell was a member of the Independent Labour Party in 1937. (PROSE: History 101)
Margery Phipps was a member of the Harmony Party when she was elected to the Kettering Town Council. (AUDIO: Council of War)
The SNP (PROSE: The Dying Days) and the Greens were parties in 1997. (PROSE: Head of State)
The National Front marches took place in the 1970s. (PROSE: Suspicious Minds) The National Front gained its sixth electoral victory with a by-election in Walthamstow. (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
The SDP was a party in 1984. (PROSE: The Clanging Chimes of Doom)
The Communist Party of Great Britain became defunct prior to 1999. (PROSE: The Danger Men)
The far-right New Britannia Party was led by Sherilyn Harper in the 2002 general election. When the Seventh Doctor explosed the NBP's funding of the United Front, support for the party collapsed. (AUDIO: The Fearmonger)
The SWP was a British party that some American Democrats would be "quite at home" in. (PROSE: Head of State)
The Co-Operative party affiliated itself with the Labour Party. (PROSE: Head of State)
UKIP voters flocked to the Conservative Party in local elections in 2018. (PROSE: Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets)
United States[]
In the United States of America, the Federalists and Republicans were parties in 1799. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)
Abraham Lincoln was a Whig congressman prior to 1858. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)
The Black Panthers were an American guerrilla group in the 1960s. (PROSE: Dead Romance, The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
By 2012, the opposing political parties were Republican and Democrat. (TV: Dalek)
The Libertarian and Green parties were minor Parties. They endorsed Matt Nelson, a Democratic Farm-Labor party senator who ran for President under the Radical Party. (PROSE: Head of State)
Other nations[]
Austria[]
The Communist Party of Austria saved Dieter Allegro's parents flee the Anschluss during World War II. (PROSE: The Danger Men)
China[]
The Kuomintang overthrew the boy Emperor Pu Yi and took charge of China during the 1911 revolution.
A Communist party fought against the Kuomintang into the 1930s. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang) They controlled China by 1951. (PROSE: Endgame)
Cuba[]
Cuba was controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba. (PROSE: The Danger Men)
Germany[]
The DVP, KPD, NSDAP, SPD, and Z were parties in Weimar Germany. They fought the elections of July and November 1932. (AUDIO: The Alchemists)
The NSDAP, better known as the Nazis, rose to power in 1933 and formed the Third Reich (PROSE: Just War) which lasted until 1945. (PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass)
Spain[]
During the Spanish Civil War, the anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and communist Partido Obero de Unificacion Marxista fought for the Republicans against the Nationalists. (PROSE: History 101)
Japan[]
The Sakura Kai as a brotherhood of Japanese military officers and politicians that engineered a number of incidents which drove Japan and China closer to war in the 1930s. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)
Soviet Union[]
The Soviet Communist Party ruled the Soviet Union. (PROSE: Revolution Man)
26th century[]
The Peace Party of Earth protested war in the 26th century immediately before the Earth-Draconian war. Party leader Professor Dale was imprisoned for at least twenty years on the Lunar Penal Colony for his actions. (TV: Frontier in Space)
The Stella Stora Sigma Schutz-Staffel SturmSoldaten (SSSSSSS) were, according to Bernice Summerfield, the most ineffectual neo-Nazi party since the Outer Hebridean National Party. (PROSE: Down)
Inter Minor[]
President Zarb was the leader of the new progressive party on Inter Minor after years of political struggle. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters)
Parallel universes[]
In the parallel universe Germania LXVIII, Adolf Hitler was an International Socialist rather than a Nazi and came to power in 1919. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)
The Party ruled in an alternate version of 1984. (PROSE: The Winning Side)
Behind the scenes[]
The three different covers of the Radio Times.
- The three major political parties of the United Kingdom — Conservative Party, Labour Party, and Liberal Democrats — were respectively represented by the red Drone Dalek, blue Strategist Dalek and yellow Eternal Dalek across the three alternate covers of the 3-9 April 2010 edition of the Radio Times.
- Despite the Liberal Democrats' colour being amber (a yellow-orange colour), the orange Scientist Dalek was not used.
- The yellow and black colour scheme of the Eternal Dalek would really align more with that of the Scottish National Party.