The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many
political parties
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to
social democracy
Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...
as their
political ideology
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.
Active parties
Former parties
See also
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Democratic Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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List of Labour Parties
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Party for Social Democracy
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Partido Social Democrata (disambiguation)
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List of socialist parties
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Socialist International
The Socialist International (SI) is a political international or worldwide organisation of political parties which seek to establish democratic socialism, consisting mostly of Social democracy, social democratic political parties and Labour mov ...
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List of social democratic parties
This is a list of parties in the world that consider themselves to be upholding the principles and values of social democracy. Some of the parties are also members of the Socialist International, Party of European Socialists or the Progressive A ...
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Lists of political parties