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A frivolous party or a joke party is a political party which has been created for the purposes of entertainment or political satire. Such a party may or may not have a serious point behind its activities. This is a list of frivolous political parties.

Some more serious political parties, such as the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, may use the same tactics and humorous approaches to politics as their more frivolous counterparts but aim to address legitimate sociopolitical issues, something that some frivolous parties do not do. By contrast, fake political parties try to resemble serious and genuine political parties for nefarious purposes, such as voter suppression, embezzlement of state funding, division and dilution of voter interest groups, et al. Some fake parties may actually model themselves after frivolous parties in an analogous fashion.

Australia

Austria

Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia

Belarus

Canada

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Czech Republic

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Denmark

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Estonia

Faroe Islands

France

Germany

  • APPD (Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany)
  • Die PARTEI ('The Party'; Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Protection of Animals, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative) (represented in the European Parliament)

Greece

  • Greek Ecologists (Έλληνες Οικολόγοι, 1986–2023, defunct)
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Hungary

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Iceland

Iran

Italy

Japan

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|CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref group=note>Most pirate parties do not qualify as frivolous parties. However, due to strict laws regarding media piracy in Japan, Japanese pirate party initiatives have resorted to satire, entertainment, and pop culture references rather than direct advocacy for law reform.</ref> (Nihon Kaizoku tō, 日本海賊党) (defunct, 2006–2017)

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Kosovo

Lithuania

New Zealand

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

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Romania

Russia

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  • Party of the Dead (2017–2022, outlawed, founder Maxim Evstropov declared a wanted fugitive as of December 2022)

Serbia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

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Switzerland

Taiwan

  • Can't Stop This Party

Ukraine

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United Kingdom

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United States

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See also

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Notes

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References

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Further reading

  • Adrian Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable, Template:ISBN
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