10 Largest Political Parties In The world

1. Bhartiya Janata Party

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Current status: Ruling
seats in lok Sabha: 303/543
Party President: Jagat Prasad Nadda
Founded: April 6, 1980
Founder: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani
Members: 180 million


The Bhartiya Janata Party, also abbreviated as BJP is the current ruling political party of the Rupublic of India. It is one of the two major political parties of India after Indian National Congress. BJP is a right wing party, with Hindutva, Uniform Civil Code, building Shree Ram Temple in Ayodhya as the main agenda in the party manifesto. It has also close ideological and organisational links to Rastriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). The party currently has one hundred and eighty million members all over India. 

2. Chinese Communist Party

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Current status: Ruling
General Secretory: Xi Jingping
Founded: July 23, 1921
Founders: Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao
Members: 90 million

The Chinese Communist Party is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China and the second largest political party in the world after Bhartiya Janata Party. It controls the country's armed forces, People's Liberation Army. Officially the party is committed to communism and according to party's constitution, the Chinese Communist Party adheres to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Deng Xiaoping Theory, The Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jingping Thought. The party currently has ninety million members all over China.

3. Democratic Party (United States)

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Current status: Opposition
seats in the Senate: 45/100
Party Chairman: Tom Perez
Founded: January 28, 1828
Founder: Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
Members: 45 million

The Democratic Party is one of the only two political parties in United States, along with its rival political party, The Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jeffereson and James Madison's Democratic Republican Party, the modern day Democratic Party was founded in 1829 by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren making it world's oldest active political party. The Democratic Party supports agrarianism and the Jacksonian democracy movement of President Andrew Jackson, representing farmers and rural interests. The party has claimed to have forty five million members all over United States. 

4. Republican Party (United States)

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Current status: Ruling
seats in the Senate: 53/100
Party Chairman: Ronna McDaniel
Founded: March 20, 1854
Founder: Francis Preston Blair 
Members: 33 million

The Republican Party, also referred to as Grand Old Party, is one of the only two political party in United States. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska act, which allowed potential expansion of slavery in western territories. The party ideology is American Conservatism, supports lower taxes, free market capitalism, restriction on immigration, increased military expenditure, deregulation and restriction on labor union. The party has claimed thirty three million members all over United States.

5. Indian National Congress

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Current status: Opposition
seats in lok Sabha: 52/543
Party President: Sonia Gandhi
Founded: December 28, 1885
Founder: Allen Octavian Hume
Members: 20 million

The Indian National Congress is an Indian political party and one of the two major political party along with its rival Bhartiya Janata Party. Founded in 1885, by a British named A.O. Hume, it was the first national political party to oppose British Empire in India. Congress supported the idea of Independent India and influenced other anti-colonial movements against the British empire. Congress is a social democratic and liberal party that supports secularism, tolerance, socialism and individual rights. The has twenty million members all over India.

6. Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

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Current status: Opposition
seats in Grand National Assembly: 291/600
Party President: Recip Tayyip Edrogan
Founded: August 14, 2000
Founder: Recip Tayyip Edrogan
Members: 10.25 million

The Justice and Development Party abbreviated officially as AK Parti in Turkish, is a conservative political party in Turkey. The party is considered by some as Islamist. The party denies the accusations strongly. The ideology of party has shifted towards Turkish nationalism in the recent years. The party has claimed ten million members all over Turkey.

7. Aam Aadmi Party

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Current status: Opposition
seats in lok Sabha: 1/543
Party President: Arvind Kejriwal
Founded: November 26, 2012
Founder: Arvind kejriwal
Members: 10.05 million

Aam Aadmi Party is an Indian political party, formally launched on 26 November 2012 and is the current ruling party of Indian national capital, New Delhi. It came into existence due to following difference between the activists Arvind Kejriwal and Anna Hazare whether to politicize or not the popular anti-corruption movement in India. The party fought its first election in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections, where it emerged as second largest party, winning 28 of 70 seats. The party follows the ideology of Anti-corruption, Participatory Democracy, Civic Nationalism, Populism. The party has claimed ten million members all over India.

8. Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf  

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Current status: Ruling
seats in National Assembly: 156/342
Chairperson: Imran Khan
Founded: April 25, 1996
Founder: Imran Khan
Members: 10 million

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is a centrist Pakistani political party and currently ruling party of Pakistan. Since party founding in 1996 the party had limited success and Imran Khan won a seat in 2002 Pakistan general election. The party aims to create an Islamic Welfare State and dismantling religious discrimination in Pakistan. The has been criticized by its political opponents and analysts for its failure to address various economical and political issues and weakening economy. The Party has claimed ten million members all over Pakistan.

9. United Socialist Party of Venezuela

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Current status: Ruling
seats in National Assembly: 52/167
Party President: Nicolas Maduro 
Founded: March 24, 2007
Founder: Hugo Chavez
Members: 6.3 million

The United Socialist Party of Venezuela is a socialist party in Venezuela which resulted from the fusion of some of the political and social forces that supported Bolivarian Revolution led by President Hugo Chavez. It party ideology supports socialism, Marxism, Left Wing Nationalism, Patriotism, Bolivarianism. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela stands ninth largest party in the world with more than six million members in Venezuela.

10. Cambodian People's Party

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Current status: Ruling
seats in National Assembly: 125/125
Party President: Hun Sen
Founded: June 28, 1951
Founder: Son Ngoc Minh, Tou Samouth
Members: 5 million

The Cambodian People's Party has been the ruling political party since 1979. Founded in 1951, it was originally called Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party, after toppling the Khmer Regime with the vietnamese liberation of Phnom Penh, it become the ruling party of Cambodia. The party originally supported communism and Lenin-Marxist Ideology. The party changed its ideology in 1991 to monarchism, conservatism, economic liberalism. The party has claimed five million members all over Cambodia.   

    


     


     


  

   

     






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