In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names. One exception is the New Democratic Party, which is organizationally integrated with most of its provincial counterparts including a shared membership.

Political parties currently represented in the House of Commons 

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Name		Founded	Ideology	Leader	MPs
Conservative Party of Canada Conservative Party of Canada The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...	2003	conservative	Stephen Harper Stephen Harper Stephen Joseph Harper is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became prime minister when his party formed a minority government after the 2006 federal election...	166
New Democratic Party New Democratic Party The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...	1961	social democracy Social democracy Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism... , democratic socialism Democratic socialism Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialist movements and organizations to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation...	Nycole Turmel Nycole Turmel Nycole Turmel, MP is the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament. She was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 federal election, representing the electoral district of Hull—Aylmer, and became interim leader of the New Democratic Party after leader Jack...  (interim)	103
Liberal Party of Canada Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...	1867	liberal Liberalism in Canada Liberalism has been a strong force in Canadian politics since the late 18th Century. While Canada has the same features of other liberal democracies in the Western democratic political tradition, it is, in some respects, an exemplar of liberalism. This article gives an overview of liberalism in...	Bob Rae Bob Rae Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada....  (interim)	34
Bloc Québécois Bloc Québécois The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...	1991	Quebec sovereignty Quebec sovereignty movement The Quebec sovereignty movement refers to both the political movement and the ideology of values, concepts and ideas that promote the secession of the province of Quebec from the rest of Canada... , social democracy Social democracy Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...	vacant	4
Green Party of Canada Green Party of Canada The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and...	1983	green Green politics Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...	Elizabeth May Elizabeth May Elizabeth Evans May, OC, MP is an American-born Canadian Member of Parliament, environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and the leader of the Green Party of Canada. She was the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. She became a Canadian citizen in 1978.May's...	1

Other parties registered with Elections Canada

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• Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada
  Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada
  The Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada is a small registered political party in Canada. It was formed by two organizations, the Animal Alliance of Canada and Environment Voters. The latter had previously been organized as a subsidiary of the former...
  
   (founded in 2005) - environmentalist
  Environmentalist
  An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
  
  , animal liberationist
  Animal rights
  Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
  
  
• Canadian Action Party
  Canadian Action Party
  The Canadian Action Party is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. It promotes Canadian nationalism, monetary and electoral reform, and opposes neoliberal globalization and free trade agreements.- Background :The Canadian Action Party was founded by Paul T...
  
   (founded in 1997) - populist
  Populism
  Populism can be defined as an ideology, political philosophy, or type of discourse. Generally, a common theme compares "the people" against "the elite", and urges social and political system changes. It can also be defined as a rhetorical style employed by members of various political or social...
  
  , anti-globalization
  Anti-globalization movement
  The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or...
  
  
• Christian Heritage Party of Canada
  Christian Heritage Party of Canada
  The Christian Heritage Party of Canada, also referred to as CHP Canada, is a federal political party that advocates that Canada be governed according to Biblical principles...
  
   (founded in 1987) - social conservative
  Social conservatism
  Social Conservatism is primarily a political, and usually morally influenced, ideology that focuses on the preservation of what are seen as traditional values. Social conservatism is a form of authoritarianism often associated with the position that the federal government should have a greater role...
  
  
• Communist Party of Canada
  Communist Party of Canada
  The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. Although is it currently a minor or small political party without representation in the Federal Parliament or in provincial legislatures, historically the Party has elected representatives in Federal Parliament, Ontario...
  
   (founded in 1921) - communist
  Communism
  Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
  
  
• Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
  Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
  The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...
  
   (founded in 1970) - communist
  Communism
  Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
  
  /Marxist-Leninist
• First Peoples National Party of Canada
  First Peoples National Party of Canada
  The First Peoples National Party of Canada is a registered federal political party in Canada. It intends to advance the issues of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada by nominating candidates for election in electoral districts with large Aboriginal populations.The FPNPC held its first organizational...
  
   (founded in 2005) - Aboriginal
  Aboriginal peoples in Canada
  Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprise the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The descriptors "Indian" and "Eskimo" have fallen into disuse in Canada and are commonly considered pejorative....
  
   rights advocacy
• Libertarian Party of Canada
  Libertarian Party of Canada
  The Libertarian Party of Canada is a political party in Canada that subscribes to the tenets of the libertarian movement across Canada.-History:...
  
   (founded in 1975) - libertarian
  Libertarianism
  Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
  
  
• Marijuana Party of Canada
  Marijuana Party of Canada
  The Marijuana Party is a Canadian federal political party. Its agenda consists of ending prohibition of cannabis. With the exception of this one issue, the party does not have "official policy" in any other area...
  
   (founded in 2000) - pro-marijuana legalization
• Rhinoceros Party (founded in 2006) - Satirical party
• Pirate Party of Canada
  Pirate Party of Canada
  The Pirate Party of Canada , abbreviated as the PPCA, is a federal political party in Canada. The PPCA is modelled after the Swedish Pirate Party and advocates copyright reform, privacy, network neutrality and open government.- Founding and development :...
  
   (founded in 2009) Copyright reform, Privacy
  Privacy
  Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively...
  
  , Network neutrality
  Network neutrality
  Network neutrality is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the Internet...
  
  , Open government
  Open government
  Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow for effective public oversight. In its broadest construction it opposes reason of state and racist considerations, which have tended to legitimize...
  
  
• Progressive Canadian Party
  Progressive Canadian Party
  The Progressive Canadian Party is a minor federal political party in Canada. It is a centre/centre-right party that was officially registered with Elections Canada, the government's election agency, on March 29, 2004....
  
   (founded in 2004) - progressive conservative
  Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
  The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
  
  , Red Tory
  Red Tory
  A red Tory is an adherent of a particular political philosophy, tradition, and disposition in Canada somewhat similar to the High Tory tradition in the United Kingdom; it is contrasted with "blue Tory". In Canada, the phenomenon of "red toryism" has fundamentally, if not exclusively, been found in...
  
  
• United Party of Canada
  United Party of Canada
  The United Party of Canada is a federally registered political party in Canada founded in November 2009. Its key principles are fiscal responsibility, social progressivism, and environmental sustainability...
  
   (founded in 2009) - centrist
• Western Block Party
  Western Block Party
  The Western Block Party is a political party in Canada founded in 2005 by Doug Christie. The party became officially registered on December 29, 2005....
  
   (founded in 2005) - western
  Western Canada
  Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and commonly as the West, is a region of Canada that includes the four provinces west of the province of Ontario.- Provinces :...
  
   separatist and paleoconservative/libertarian conservative

Unregistered parties that have been active in recent years

• Freedom Party of Canada
  Freedom Party of Canada
  The Freedom Party of Canada was founded on July 20, 2001 by Paul McKeever and Robert Metz...
  
   (founded in 2001, formerly Unparty)
• Nationalist Party of Canada
  Nationalist Party of Canada
  The Nationalist Party of Canada is an unregistered Canadian political party that was founded in 1977 by Don Andrews , who continues as leader of the party...
  
   (founded in 1977)
• National-Socialist Party of Canada (founded in 2006)
• Newfoundland and Labrador First Party
  Newfoundland and Labrador First Party
  The Newfoundland and Labrador First Party was a Canadian political party registered at both the federal and provincial levels of government in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.-Election results:-Federal results:...
  
   (founded in 2007) - Newfoundland and Labrador
  Newfoundland and Labrador
  Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...
  
   advocacy
• People's Political Power of Canada
  People's Political Power of Canada
  The People’s Political Power Party of Canada is a fringe Canadian federal political party that is no longer recognized by Elections Canada. The party became eligible for registration on April 26, 2006, and was deregistered on April 13, 2011 for failing to nominate a candidate for the 2011 federal...
  
   (founded in 2006)- feminist, centrist, populist
• Sex Party
  Sex Party (British Columbia)
  The Sex Party is a political party based in British Columbia, Canada, that contests provincial elections to promote libertarian and sex-positive attitudes towards sexual education, pornography, indecency laws, and prostitution. It describes itself as "the world's first registered political party...
  
   (founded in 2005)
• Work Less Party
  Work Less Party
  The Work Less Party was a Canadian federal political party that became eligible for registration with Elections Canada on October 1, 2007....
  
   (founded in 2007) - Labour rights
• Natural Law Party of Canada
  Natural Law Party of Canada
  The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practiced Transcendental Meditation....
  
   (founded in 1992)

Historical parties that have won seats in Parliament

• Anti-Confederate 1867
• Bloc Populaire Canadien
  Bloc populaire canadien
  The Bloc populaire canadien was a political party in the Canadian province of Quebec from 1942 to 1947. It was founded on September 8, 1942 by opponents of conscription during World War II...
  
  1943-1949
• Canadian Alliance
  Canadian Alliance
  The Canadian Alliance , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held...
  
   2000-2003
• Conservative-Labour
  Conservative Labour
  Conservative Labour was the label used by Canadian Conservative Party politician Henry Buckingham Witton as a candidate in Hamilton, Ontario from 1872 to 1875. Witton may have added "Labour" to the Conservative Party name because Hamilton is a largely industrial city...
  
   1872-1875
• Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)
• Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
  Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
  The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...
  
   1932-1961
• Ginger Group
  Ginger group
  A ginger group is a formal or informal group within, for example, a political party seeking to inspire the rest with its own enthusiasm and activity....
  
   1924-1932
• Farmer Labour, Farmer-United Labour, Labour-Farmer 1925-1949
• Labour various
• Labour-Progressive Party
  Labour-Progressive Party
  For the Labour-Progressive Coalition Government in New Zealand see the Fifth Labour Government of New ZealandThe Labor-Progressive Party was the legal political organization of the Communist Party of Canada between 1943 and 1959....
  
   1943-1959
• Laurier Liberals
  Laurier Liberals
  Prior to the 1917 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada split into two factions:* the Laurier Liberals, who opposed conscription of soldiers to support Canada's involvement in World War I and who were led by former Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier; and* the Liberal Unionists who...
  
   1917 election
  Canadian federal election, 1917
  The 1917 Canadian federal election was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Canada. Described by historian Michael Bliss as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was fought mainly over the issue of conscription...
  
   only
• Liberal-Conservative 1867-1911
• Liberal-Labour
  Liberal-Labour (Canada)
  The Liberal-Labour banner has also been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections:In the early twentieth century when the idea of trade unionists running for elected office under their own banner gained ground, several working class candidates on the provincial or federal level were...
  
   1926-1968
• Liberal-Progressive
  Liberal-Progressive
  Liberal-Progressive was a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1926 and 1953. In federal and Ontario politics, there was no formal Liberal-Progressive party, but it was an alliance between two separate parties...
  
   1925-1955
• Liberal Protectionist
  Liberal Protectionist
  Liberal Protectionist was the name under which three candidates sought election to the Canadian House of Commons for ridings in Quebec in two elections in the early twentieth century....
  
   1925, 1930
• Liberal-Unionist
  Liberal-Unionist
  For the British party see Liberal Unionist PartyLiberal-Unionists were supporters of the Liberal Party of Canada who, as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 rejected Sir Wilfrid Laurier's leadership and supported the coalition Unionist government of Sir Robert Borden.Much of the Ontario...
  
   1917
• McCarthyite
  McCarthyite candidates 1896
  The McCarthyites were a short-lived anti-Catholic and anti-French-Canadian political movement which contested the 23 June 1896 federal election in Canada.Dalton McCarthy was the only "McCarthyite" to win election, and the movement disbanded in 1898....
  
   1896
• National Government 1940
• National Liberal and Conservative Party
  National Liberal and Conservative Party
  The National Liberal and Conservative Party was the name adopted by the Conservative Party of Canada in 1920 after the end of the Unionist government of Robert Borden....
  
   1920-1921
• Nationalist Conservative
  Nationalist Conservative
  The label Nationalist Conservative was used by several Quebec Members of the Canadian Parliament and several unsuccessful candidates. They used this label in order to distinguish themselves from the British imperialist reputation of the Conservative Party or as a result of disputes with the...
  
   1878-1911
• Nationalist Liberal
  Nationalist Liberal
  Nationalist Liberal was the label under which Fleming Blanchard McCurdy ran in a by-election held in Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, on September 20, 1920....
  
   1920
• New Democracy
  New Democracy (Canada)
  New Democracy was a political party in Canada founded by William Duncan Herridge in 1939. Herridge, a former Conservative party adviser who was Canada's Envoy to the United States from 1931-35 during the government of R. B. Bennett....
  
   1940 election
  Canadian federal election, 1940
  The Canadian federal election of 1940 was the 19th general election in Canadian history. It was held March 26, 1940 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 19th Parliament of Canada...
  
   only
• New Party
  New Party (Canada)
  New Party was the interim name used by the new political party being established in Canada from 1958 to 1961 by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress , which eventually defined itself as a social democratic party...
  
   1960
• Non-Partisan League
  Non-Partisan League
  The Nonpartisan League was a political organization founded in 1915 in the United States by former Socialist Party organizer A. C. Townley. The Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate...
  
   1917
• Patrons of Industry
  Patrons of Industry
  The Grand Association of the Patrons of Industry in Ontario was a Canadian farmers' organization formed in 1890 that cooperated with the urban labour movement to address the political frustrations of both groups with big business....
  
   1896
• People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
  People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
  The People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a label used by candidates in elections in the Canadian province of British Columbia who were not endorsed by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, but who were supportive of its policies....
  
   1945
• Progressive-Conservative (candidate)
  Progressive-Conservative (candidate)
  The label Progressive-Conservative was used by some candidates for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1925, 1926, 1930 and 1935 federal elections...
  
   1925-1935
• Progressive Party of Canada
  Progressive Party of Canada
  The Progressive Party of Canada was a political party in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s. It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba...
  
   1921-1948
• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
  Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
  The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
  
   1942-2003
• Ralliement créditiste
  Ralliement créditiste
  Historically in Quebec, Canada, there was a number of political parties that were part of the Canadian social credit movement. There were various parties at different times with different names at the provincial level, all broadly following the social credit philosophy; at various times they had...
  
  /Social Credit Rally 1963-1971
• Reconstruction Party of Canada
  Reconstruction Party of Canada
  The Reconstruction Party was a Canadian political party founded by Henry Herbert Stevens, a long-time Conservative Member of Parliament . Stevens served as Minister of Trade in the Arthur Meighen government of 1921, and as Minister of Trade and Commerce from 1930 to 1934 in the Depression-era...
  
   1935-1938
• Reform Party of Canada
  Reform Party of Canada
  The Reform Party of Canada was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a populist party....
  
   1987-2000
• Reform Party
  Reform Party (pre-Confederation)
  The Reform movement, sometimes referred to as the Reform Party, began in the 1830s as the movement in the English speaking parts of British North America . It agitated for responsible government....
  
   (pre-Confederation)
• Social Credit Party of Canada
  Social Credit Party of Canada
  The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...
  
   1935-1993
• Social Democratic Party of Canada
  Social Democratic Party of Canada
  The Social Democratic Party was a social democratic political party in Canada founded in 1911 by members of the right wing of the Socialist Party of Canada. these members were dissatisfied with what they saw as that party's rigid, doctrinaire approach...
  
   1911-1920
• Socialist Party of Canada
  Socialist Party of Canada
  There have been two different but related political parties in Canada that called themselves the Socialist Party of Canada . The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada...
  
   1904-1925
• Union of Electors 1945-1949
• Unionist Party
  Unionist Party (Canada)
  The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament in Canada who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War....
  
   1917-1921
• United Farmers
  United Farmers of Canada
  The United Farmers of Canada was a radical farmers organization. It was established in 1926 as the United Farmers of Canada as a merger of the Farmers' Union of Canada and the Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association...
  
   1921-1935
• United Farmers-Labour 1920
• United Farmers of Alberta
  United Farmers of Alberta
  The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...
  
   1921-1935
• United Farmers of Ontario
  United Farmers of Ontario
  The United Farmers of Ontario was a political party in Ontario, Canada. It was the Ontario provincial branch of the United Farmers movement of the early part of the 20th century.- Foundation and rise :...
  
   1919-1940
• United Farmers of Ontario-Labour 1919-1940
• United Reform Movement
  United Reform
  The United Reform Movement or United Reform was an attempt in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to create a left wing farmer-labour coalition....
  
   1939-1940
• Unity
  Unity (Canada)
  Unity or Progressive Unity was the name used in Saskatchewan, Canada, by a popular front party initiated by the Communist Party of Canada for the 1938 Saskatchewan and 1940 Canadian election....
  
   1938-1940

Other historical parties that nominated candidates

• Abolitionist Party of Canada
  Abolitionist Party of Canada
  The Abolitionist Party of Canada was a Canadian political party founded by perennial candidate John C. Turmel. The party ran on a platform of: monetary reform, including the abolition of interest rates and the income tax, the use of the local employment trading system of banking, and introducing a...
  
   1993-1996
• All Canadian Party
  All Canadian Party
  John Darby Naismith, a cattleman by profession, ran as the sole candidate for the All Canadian Party in the 1962 federal election in Canada. He ran in the riding of Acadia in Alberta.He collected 189 of the 12,867 votes cast ....
  
   1962
• Anti-Communist 1935 & 1953
• Anti-Conscriptionist
  Anti-Conscriptionist
  In the 1940 federal election in Canada, Louis-Gérard Gosselin ran as an Anti-Conscriptionist candidate. Running in the Quebec riding of St. Henry, Gosselin received 642 votes on a platform opposing the imposition of conscription during World War II....
  
   1940
• Autonomist
  Autonomist candidate
  In a Canadian federal by-election held on 31 March 1947 in the riding of Cartier in Quebec, Paul Massé ran as a left-wing Autonomist candidate...
  
   1947
• Canada Party
  Canada Party
  The Canada Party was a short-lived political party in Canada that nominated 56 candidates in the 1993 federal election and one candidate in a 1996 by-election. It was unable to win any seats. The party was populist and ran on a platform of banking and monetary reform...
  
   1993-1996
• Canadian Democrat
  Canadian Democrat
  Canadian Democrat was a Canadian political party. It nominated only one candidate, Gerry Goeujon, a law student, who ran in the 1957 federal election in the riding of New Westminster in British Columbia, Canada. He collected 628 of the 47,692 votes cast .-Source:...
  
   1957
• Canadian Labour Party
  Canadian Labour Party
  The Canadian Labour Party was an early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a national labour party in Canada. Although it ran candidates in the federal elections of 1917, 1921, 1925 and 1926, it never succeeded in its goal of providing a national forum for the Canadian labour movement...
  
   1917, 1921–1929
• Canadian Party for Renewal
  Canadian Party for Renewal
  The Canadian Party for Renewal was an unregistered political party in Canada, established in 1993. It was closely aligned with the Communist Party of Canada ....
  
  , 1993
• Canadian Union of Fascists
  Canadian Union of Fascists
  The Canadian Fascist Party was a fascist political party based in the Canadian city of Winnipeg. The formative core of the party was a splinter group from the Canadian Nationalist Party that found the principles of corporativism to be more important than the largely racial motivations of the...
  
   1930s
• Candidat libéral des électeurs
  Candidat libéral des électeurs
  Candidats libéral des électeurs was a political group in Quebec, Canada. It was a moderate faction that split from the Ralliement créditiste, the Quebec wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada. The Candidats libéral des électeurs ran one candidate in the 1962 federal election, and another in...
  
  1962-1963
• Candidats des électeurs 1957-1958
• Capital familial
  Henri-Georges Grenier
  Henri-Georges Grenier was a perennial candidate who ran unsuccessfully in thirteen federal elections and by-elections between 1945 and 1980 in Quebec, Canada, and in at least one provincial by-election...
  
  (H.-G. Grenier) 1957-1962
• Christian Credit Party
  Christian Credit Party
  The Christian Credit Party was a short-lived Canadian political party founded in 1982 by perennial candidate and social credit activist, John C...
  
   1982-1983
• Christian Democrat Party of Canada
  Christian Democrat Party of Canada
  The Christian Democrat Party of Canada was a Canadian political party that organized briefly in 1981-82, in an attempt to start a right-wing populist party.The Christian Democrat Party [sic] was founded by Sydney Thompson, of Dunnville, Ontario...
  
   1981
• Christian Freedom Party of Canada
  Christian Freedom Party of Canada
  The Christian Freedom Party of Canada, also known as the Christian Freedom/Social Credit Party of Canada was an unregistered Canadian political party that was active from 1988 to 1996. It grew out of the Social Credit Party of Canada, and for most of its existence it was officially registered under...
  
   c. 1988-c. 1996 (an extension of the Social Credit Party)
• Christian Liberal 1953
• Confederation of Regions Party of Canada
  Confederation of Regions Party of Canada
  The Confederation of Regions Party was a right-wing Canadian political party founded in 1984 by Elmer Knutson. It was founded as a successor to the Western Canada Federation , a non-partisan organization, to fight the Liberal Party of Canada...
  
   1984-1988
• Co-operative Builders of Canada
  Co-operative Builders of Canada
  In the 1962 federal election in Canada, Edgar-Bernard Charron, a plumber, sought election as a Co-operative Builders of Canada candidate in the south-western Ontario riding of Essex West. He placed last, winning only 261 votes, or 0.7% of the total....
  
   1962
• Democratic Party of Canada
  Democratic Party of Canada
  The Democratic Party of Canada was a short-lived political party in Canada.Its leader was William Richard Nathaniel Smith.In the July 11, 1945 federal election, five candidates unsuccessfully sought election in ridings in Vancouver, British Columbia as Democratic Party candidates...
  
   1945
• Droit vital personnel
  Henri-Georges Grenier
  Henri-Georges Grenier was a perennial candidate who ran unsuccessfully in thirteen federal elections and by-elections between 1945 and 1980 in Quebec, Canada, and in at least one provincial by-election...
  
  (H.-G. Grenier) 1965
• Equal Rights
  Equal Rights Party (Canada)
  The Equal Rights Party was a Canadian political party that nominated two candidates in the 5 March 1891 federal election. Samuel Grandy, running in Durham East riding in Ontario, won 1,685 of the 3,431 votes cast , losing narrowly to Conservative Party candidate Thomas Dixon Craig, who collected...
  
   1891
• Esprit social
  Henri-Georges Grenier
  Henri-Georges Grenier was a perennial candidate who ran unsuccessfully in thirteen federal elections and by-elections between 1945 and 1980 in Quebec, Canada, and in at least one provincial by-election...
  
  (H.-G. Grenier) 1967-1971
• Farmer
  Farmer (party)
  In the 1930 federal election in Canada, five supporters of the United Farmers ran in Saskatchewan as "Farmer" candidates. None of them were elected. Additionally, in the 1925 federal election, one supporter of the Progressive Party of Canada ran in Quebec as a "Farmer" candidate....
  
   1925 & 1930
• Forward Canada Party 1997
• Franc Lib 1930 & 1968
• Labour Parties of Canada 1900-1940, history of different parties
• League for Socialist Action 1961-1977
• Liberal Conservative Coalition 1957
• Liberal-Labour-Progressive
  Liberal-Progressive
  Liberal-Progressive was a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1926 and 1953. In federal and Ontario politics, there was no formal Liberal-Progressive party, but it was an alliance between two separate parties...
  
   1926
• Liberal Protectionist
  Liberal Protectionist
  Liberal Protectionist was the name under which three candidates sought election to the Canadian House of Commons for ridings in Quebec in two elections in the early twentieth century....
  
   1925 & 1930
• Locataire (candidat)
  Locataire (candidat)
  Louis Seigneur was a Canadian politician. In the 10 August 1958 federal election, he unsuccessfully sought election in Quebec East riding as a Locataire candidate. He won 417 votes, 1.3% of the popular vote.-Source:*...
  
  1953
• Movement for an Independent Socialist Canada
  The Waffle
  The Waffle was a radical wing of Canada's New Democratic Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It later transformed into an independent political party, with little electoral success before it permanently disbanded in the mid-1970s...
  
   1974
• National Credit Control
  National Credit Control
  John Bernard Ball ran as a National Credit Control candidate in the federal 1957 federal election in Canada in the riding of Regina City in Saskatchewan...
  
   1957
• National Labour 1940
• National Liberal Progressive
  National Liberal Progressive
  National Liberal Progressive was a political label used by in the Canadian federal election of 1940, by W. Garfield Case, in Grey North electoral district in Ontario....
  
   1940
• National Party of Canada (I) 1979-1980s
• National Party of Canada
  National Party of Canada
  The National Party of Canada was a short-lived Canadian political party that contested the 1993 federal election. The party should not be confused by an earlier and unrelated National Party that was founded in 1979.-Formation:...
  
   (II) 1991-1994
• National Unity Party
  Parti national social chrétien
  The Parti National Social Chrétien was a Canadian political party formed by Adrien Arcand in February 1934. The party identified with anti-semitism, and German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazism. The party was later known, in English, as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party or National Unity...
  
   1938-1949
• National Unity (candidate) 1940 (Robert Rae Manville running as an unofficial National Government candidate in Mackenzie King's riding)
• National Socialist 1968
• New Canada Party
  New Canada Party
  The New Canada Party was a short-lived Canadian political party that nominated one candidate, party founder and leader, Fred Reiner, in the 1968 election...
  
   1968
• New Capitalist Party
  New Capitalist Party
  The New Capitalist Party was a short-lived political party in Canada that nominated three candidates in Toronto-area ridings in the 1965 election....
  
   1965
• Non-Partisan League
  Non-Partisan League
  The Nonpartisan League was a political organization founded in 1915 in the United States by former Socialist Party organizer A. C. Townley. The Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate...
  
   1917
• North American Labour Party
  North American Labour Party
  The North American Labour Party was a Canadian political party that nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. However, because it was not a registered political party under the rules of Elections Canada, its candidates were considered to be independents.The NALP was the Canadian...
  
   1970s
• Parti de la Démocratisation Économique
  Parti de la Démocratisation Économique
  The Parti de la Démocratisation Économique was a group of five candidates in Quebec, Canada, who unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 25 June 1968 federal election. Together, they won 2,651 votes, or 1.7% of the popular votes in the ridings in which they ran.*...
  
  1968
• Parti humain familial
  Henri-Georges Grenier
  Henri-Georges Grenier was a perennial candidate who ran unsuccessfully in thirteen federal elections and by-elections between 1945 and 1980 in Quebec, Canada, and in at least one provincial by-election...
  
  (H.-G. Grenier) 1964
• Parti national social chrétien
  Parti national social chrétien
  The Parti National Social Chrétien was a Canadian political party formed by Adrien Arcand in February 1934. The party identified with anti-semitism, and German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazism. The party was later known, in English, as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party or National Unity...
  
  1934-1938
• Parti Nationaliste du Quebec
  Parti nationaliste du Québec
  -Origins:For decades, the Social Credit Party's Quebec wing, the Ralliement créditiste, attracted many Quebec nationalists as a party that could represent Quebec's interests in the Canadian House of Commons...
  
  1984 election
  Canadian federal election, 1984
  The Canadian federal election of 1984 was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 33rd Parliament of Canada...
  
   only
• Parti ouvrier canadien
  Parti ouvrier canadien
  In the March 31 , 1958 Canadian federal election, Jean-Jacques Rouleau, who listed his profession as ‘technician’, unsuccessfully sought election in Chapleau riding in Quebec as a candidate of the Parti ouvrier canadien . He won 204 votes, 0.8% of the popular vote.* See also: List of political...
  
  1958
• Parti canadien
  Parti canadien (1942)
  The Parti canadien was an anti-conscriptionist party formed by Member of Parliament Liguori Lacombe in 1942. Lacombe was the MP for Laval—Two Mountains and an isolationist, who opposed Canada's participation in World War II and the implementation of conscription...
  
   1942 (anti-conscription, formed by MP Liguori Lacombe
  Liguori Lacombe
  Joseph-Roméo-Liguori Lacombe, generally known as Liguori Lacombe was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1930 and again from 1935 to 1948...
  
  )
• Parti republicain/Republican Party 1964-1971
• Party for the Commonwealth of Canada
  Party for the Commonwealth of Canada
  The Party for the Commonwealth of Canada was a Canadian political party formed by Canadians who supported the ideology of U.S. politician Lyndon LaRouche in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections....
  
   1984-1993
• Progressive Workers Movement
  Progressive Workers Movement
  The Progressive Workers Movement was a short-lived political party in Canada.In the 1965 federal election, Jerry Le Bourdais, who listed his profession as "oilworker", unsuccessfully sought election in Vancouver East riding in British Columbia as a candidate of the Progressive Workers Movement...
  
   1965
• Prohibition 1930
• Protectionist 1926
• Protestant Protective Association
  Protestant Protective Association
  The Protestant Protective Association was an anti-Catholic group in the 1890s based in Ontario, Canada, associated with the Orange Order. Originally a spinoff of the American group the American Protective Association, it became independent in 1892...
  
   1896
• Radical chrétien
  Radical chrétien
  Radical chrétien was a label used by several candidates in Canadian federal elections in the 1950s and 1960s.In the 1958 federal election, Georges Rousseau unsuccessfully sought election in Mercier riding in Quebec as a Radical chrétien candidate...
  
  1958-1967
• Revolutionary Workers League 1977-1989
• Revolutionary Workers Party 1945 - 1953
• Rhinoceros Party of Canada 1968-1993
• Social Credit-National Unity
  Social Credit-National Unity
  Social Credit-National Unity was the label used by Harry Watson Arnold when he ran in the 1940 federal election in Canada. Arnold ran in the riding of Saskatoon City...
  
   1940
• Socialist Labour Party
  Socialist Labour Party (Canada)
  The Socialist Labour Party was a political party in Canada that was formed by Canadian supporters of the ideas of American socialist Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party of America. The party never won any seats...
  
   1945-1968
• Technocrat 1935
• Trades Union 1945
• Union Populaire
  Union Populaire
  The Union populaire was a federal political party in Canada that nominated candidates in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections. The party also nominated one candidate in the 4 May 1981 by-election in the riding of Levis, Quebec....
  
  1979-1981
• United Party of Canada
  United Party of Canada
  The United Party of Canada is a federally registered political party in Canada founded in November 2009. Its key principles are fiscal responsibility, social progressivism, and environmental sustainability...
  
   1983
• United Progressive 1940
• Verdun
  Verdun (candidate)
  In the 14 October 1935 federal election in Canada, Hervé Ferland, who listed his profession as ‘merchant’, unsuccessfully sought election in Verdun riding in Quebec as the Verdun candidate. He won 4,124 votes, 16.8% of the popular vote, placing third in a field of 11 candidates, behind the...
  
   1935
• Veterans Party 1935
• Workers' Communist Party of Canada
  Workers' Communist Party of Canada
  The Workers' Communist Party of Canada was a Canadian political party that nominated candidates in the 1972 and 1980 general elections. For several years it published a weekly newspaper "The Forge/La Forge"...
  
   1972-1980

Historical parties that did not nominate candidates

• Aboriginal Peoples Party of Canada
  Aboriginal Peoples Party of Canada
  The Aboriginal Peoples Party of Canada is a Canadian political party that was founded in 2005. Originally conceived by University of Lethbridge student Myron Wolf Child, the party held its founding meeting on August 21, 2005, in St. Albert, Alberta. The APP was headed by interim leader Bill...
  
   (founded 2005)
• Action Canada
  Action Canada
  The Action Canada movement was an attempt to establish a new political party in Canada in 1971.Paul Hellyer, who had been a senior cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of prime ministers Lester B...
  
   1971
• Canadian Clean Start Party 2000
• Canadian Democratic Movement 2000
• Parti Populaire des Putes 2000
• Grey Party of Canada
  Grey Party of Canada
  The Grey Party of Canada is a political party in Canada. The party is a protest movement started by senior citizens who want to make views known on specific issues including tax credits for seniors, saving Medicare, and free medications for seniors....
  
   2002-2003
• National Alternative Party
  National Alternative Party
  The National Alternative Party was a short-lived political party that was created to fill the lack of a united party on the right in Canada. It was registered with Elections Canada in February 2002. This Alma, Quebec-based party was launched on March 4, 2003 at a press conference at the Charles...
  
   2002-2003
• Ontario Party of Canada
  Ontario Party of Canada
  The Ontario Party of Canada was a political party in Canada that was co-founded in September 2002 by George Burns and Brad Harness of London, Ontario to promote the interests of the Province of Ontario within the Canadian confederation...
  
   2002
• Option Canada
  Option Canada (political party)
  Option Canada was a short-lived political party in Quebec, Canada, in the early 1990s. Gaining media attention in 1991 for its proposal to create an 11th province in southwestern Quebec, it did not maintain significant public support and never registered as an official political party before...
  
   1991
• Patriot Party of Canada 2001
• Rest of Canada Party
  Rest of Canada Party
  The Rest of Canada Party was a Canadian political party that intended to run candidates in all provinces outside of Ontario and Quebec, which the party believed were unfairly running the country...
  
   2002
• Unity Party of Canada 2001-2004
• Western Canada Concept
  Western Canada Concept
  The Western Canada Concept was a Western Canadian political party founded in 1980 to promote the separation of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia and the Yukon and Northwest Territories from Canada in order to create a new nation.The party argued that Western...
  
   1980-?
• Western Independence Party
  Western Independence Party
  The Western Independence Party was a Canadian political party that advocated the separation from Canada of the western Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba as well as the Yukon and Northwest Territories to form a new country.The WIP ran 11 candidates in the...
  
  1987-?