This article lists political parties in Mexico.

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

has a

multi-party system In political science, a multi-party system is a political system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national elections, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coal ...

, which means that there are more than two dominant

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. Nationally, the three main political parties are the , the , and the . Other political parties survive in isolation or by forming local coalitions with any of the three.

National parties

has ten nationally recognized

by the

Federal Electoral Institute The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (English for ''National Electoral Institute'') (formerly Federal Electoral Institute (, IFE)) is an autonomous, public agency responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those relate ...

. Under Mexican law, parties are listed in the order in which they were first registered, thus:

Other political parties, not registered

Communist Party of Mexico The Mexican Communist Party ( es, Partido Comunista Mexicano, PCM) was a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1917 as the Socialist Workers' Party (, PSO) by Manabendra Nath Roy, a left-wing Indian revolutionary. The PSO changed its name ...

(far-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) * Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist) (far-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) * Communists' Party (far-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) *

Popular Socialist Party of Mexico Popular Socialist Party of Mexico ( es, Partido Popular Socialista de México, PPSM) is a communist party in Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country ...

(far-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) * Popular Socialist Party (far-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) *

Progressive Social Networks Progressive Social Networks ( es, Redes Sociales Progresistas, RSP) was a Mexican center-left political party formed in 2020. History RSP was founded on January 19, 2019, as a civil association, by Juan Iván Peña Neder. Over the course of the ...

(Centre-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) *

Force for Mexico Fuerza por Mexico ( es, Fuerza por México, FXM) was a Mexican political party. The party was progressive and sought to revolutionize the country's electoral demographic and break from the nation's traditional parties. History In January 2019, ...

(Centre-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) *

Solidarity Encounter Party The Solidarity Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Solidario, PES) was a political party in Mexico. The party president was Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes. It was the functional replacement for the Social Encounter Party, a Christian-oriented ...

(Right-wing, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) * Nationalist Front of Mexico (far-right, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) *

National Synarchist Union The National Synarchist Union ( es, Unión Nacional Sinarquista) is a Mexican political organization. It was historically a movement of the Roman Catholic extreme right, similar to clerical fascism and Falangism, implacably opposed to the left ...

(far-right, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) * Autonomous Region Party ("Unification of the northeast") * Socialist Convergence (''Convergencia Socialista - CS'') (far-left, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) * Nationalist Socialist Party Of Mexico, Spanish- Partido Nacional-Socialista de México (far-right not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) * Cyber Political Party (right-wing, not officially registered as party) * National Hope Party, Spanish- Partido Esperanza Nacional right-wing, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections) *

Mexico First Party Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...

(far-right, not officially registered as party, cannot compete in elections)

Local parties

Local parties are registered with the Electoral Institute of each Mexican

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according to their own criteria and regulations, which may differ from those of INE but maintaining a national relation due to the highest court in the law of political parties, the SCJN. This list is complete as of 2020. *

Colima Democratic Association The Colima Democratic Association ( es, Asociación por la Democracia Colimense, Partido Político Estatal, ADC) is a political party from the State of Colima, Mexico. Carlos Vázquez Oldenbourg together with other politicians from Colima foun ...

(''Asociación Democrática de Colima'',

Colima Colima (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Colima), is one of the 31 states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and ...

) * Alliance for Yucatan Party (''Partido Alianza por Yucatán'',

Yucatán Yucatán (, also , , ; yua, Yúukatan ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán,; yua, link=no, Xóot' Noj Lu'umil Yúukatan. is one of the 31 states which comprise the political divisions of Mexico, federal entities of Mexico. I ...

) * Coahuila First (''Primero Coahuila'',

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

) * Morelos First Party (''Por Morelos al Frente''), 2018 * Social Democratic Party of Coahuila (''Social Demócrata de Coahuila'',

) * Progressive Party of Coahuila (''Partido Progresista de Coahuila,

'') * Popular Awareness Party (''Partido Conciencia Popular, San Luis Potosi'') *Uniting Wills We Can Build (''Sumando Voluntades Podemos Construir'',

Morelos Morelos (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 36 municipalities and its capital city is Cuer ...

, registered for 2021 Mexican legislative election) *More, More Social Support (''Más Más Apoyo Social'', Morelos, registered for 2021 elections) *Morelos Progresses (''Morelos Progresa'', registered for 2021 elections) *Social Alternative Movement'' (Movimiento Alternativa Social'', Morelos, registered for 2021 elections) *Citizen Welfare (''Bienestar Ciudadano'', Morelos, registered for 2021 elections) *Morelense Political Renewal (''Renovación Política Morelense'', registered for 2021 elections) *Strength, Work and Unit for the Timely Rescue of Morelos (''Fuerza, Trabajo y Unidad por el Rescate Oportuno de Morelos'', registered for 2021 elections) *Morelos Force (''Morelos Fuerza'', registered for 2021 elections) * New Alliance (''Partido Nueva Alianza'', PANAL; active in several states)

Former parties

During the 19th century the two most important parties were the Liberals (''Liberales'') and the

Conservatives Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...

(''Conservadores''). *

Mexican Conservative Party The Conservative Party ( es, Partido Conservador) was one of two major factions in Mexican political thought that emerged in the years after independence, the other being the Liberals. At various times and under different circumstances they wer ...

(1849–1867) *

Mexican Liberal Party The Mexican Liberal Party (PLM; es, Partido Liberal Mexicano) was started in August 1900 when engineer Camilo Arriaga published a manifesto entitled ''Invitacion al Partido Liberal'' (Invitation to the Liberal Party). The invitation was addr ...

(1905–1918) * Progressive Constitutionalist Party (1910–1929) * Laborist Party (1919–1929) *

Mexican Communist Party The Mexican Communist Party ( es, Partido Comunista Mexicano, PCM) was a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1917 as the Socialist Workers' Party (, PSO) by Manabendra Nath Roy, a left-wing Indian revolutionary. The PSO changed its name ...

(1919–1989) *

Revolutionary Party of National Unification Revolutionary Party of National Unification ( es, Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Nacional, PRUN) was a political party in Mexico. PRUN was founded in 1939, to support the candidacy of General Juan Andreu Almazán in the 1940 presidential e ...

(1939–1940) * Popular Force Party (1945–1948) *

Federation of Parties of the People The Federation of Parties of the Mexican People ( es, Federación de Partidos del Pueblo Mexicano) was a socialist political party that existed from 1945 to 1954. The party was founded by Genovevo de la O, a former Zapatista commander, in 1945. ...

(1945–1954) *

Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution The Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution () was a Mexican political party that existed from 1954 to 2000. For most of its existence, the PARM was generally considered a satellite party of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PR ...

(1954–2000) *

Mexican Democratic Party The Mexican Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Mexicano, PDM) was an ultra-Catholic social conservative political party in Mexico that existed between 1979 and 1997. At its height in 1982, the party had over 500,000 active voters and 12 seat ...

(1979–1997) * Mexican Workers' Party (1984–1987) *

Mexican Socialist Party The Socialist Mexican Party (, PMS) was a left-wing Mexican political party, and one of the immediate antecedents of the present Party of the Democratic Revolution. It was the last effort to unify the different Mexican left-wing parties, as well ...

(1987–1989) *

Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction The Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction ( es, text=Partido Frente Cardenista de Reconstrucción Nacional; PFCRN) was a Mexican political party that arose during the 1989 elections, having evolved from the coffee cooperative ...

(1987–1997) *

Party of the Nationalist Society The Party of the Nationalist Society ( es, Partido de la Sociedad Nacionalista, PSN) is a former political party in Mexico that existed between 1998 and 2003. Founded and led by Gustavo Riojas Santana, it was a center-left party which advocated nat ...

(1998–2003) *

Social Democracy Social democracy is a Political philosophy, political, Social philosophy, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocati ...

(1999–2000) *

Citizen Force Party Citizen Force Party (, FC) was a Mexican political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about po ...

(2002–2003) *

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Fo ...

(2005–2009) *

México Posible México Posible ( en, Possible Mexico) was a Mexican political party of brief existence which took part in the midterm 2003 Mexican legislative election. The party was led by Patricia Mercado. Due to its not achieving 2.0% of the national vote t ...

(2002–2003) * Party of the Democratic Centre (1999–2000) * Popular Socialist Party (1948–1997) *

Social Alliance Party The Social Alliance Party (), or PAS, was a political party in Mexico. PAS Presidents *(1999 - 2003): José Antonio Calderón Cardoso PAS presidential candidates *(2000): Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (alliance with PRD, PT, C and PSN t ...

(1998–2003) * Socialist Workers Party (1917–1981) *

Unified Socialist Party of Mexico The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico ( es, Partido Socialista Unificado de México, PSUM) was a socialist political party in Mexico. It later became the Socialist Mexican Party () in 1988. History The PSUM was founded in November 1981 by the me ...

(1981–1987) *

Workers Party of Acapulco Workers Party of Acapulco () was a local political party in Acapulco, Mexico. POA was founded in 1919 by Juan R. Escudero. POA published ''Regeneración () was a Mexican anarchist newspaper that functioned as the official organ of the Mexica ...

(

Guerrero Guerrero is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo and its largest city is Acapulcocopied from article, GuerreroAs of 2020, Guerrero the pop ...

) * Workers' Revolutionary Party (1979–1996) *

Humanist Party The Humanist International (also known as the International Humanist Party) is a consortium of political parties adhering to universal humanism (also known as Siloism, after the nickname of the movement's founder), founded in 1989 by over 40 na ...

(2014–2015) *

Social Encounter Party Social Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Social, PES) was a Mexican conservative political party established on the national level in 2014 and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalition ''Juntos Haremos Historia'' with the National R ...

(2006–2018) *

(2020–2021) *

(2020–2021)

References

External links

Federal Electoral Institute
- A list of officially registered national parties can be consulted here. *http://www.marketingpolitico.com.mx/Institutoselectorales.htm - Index of links to every Electoral Institute in each state of Mexico. Lists of political parties in each state can be consulted in each website. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Political Parties In Mexico