Third Force may refer to:

Politics

Third party (politics) A minor party is a political party that plays a smaller (in some cases much smaller, even insignificant in comparison) role than a major party in a country's politics and elections. The difference between minor and major parties can be so great ...

, party other than one of the two dominant ones in a two-party political system **

Third party (United States) Third party, or minor party, is a term used in the United States' two-party system for political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties. The plurality voting system for presidential and Congressional elections have over ti ...

, in American politics ** Third parties in a

two-party system A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time, one of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referr ...

, in which two political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government **

Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (CPWDP) is one of the eight minor Democratic parties (China), democratic parties in the China, People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party. The party was offi ...

, called "Third party" in the 1930s * Third Force, a term referring to Canadians of neither British or French descent; see * , attempts to establish another force against the authoritarian Kuomintang and the radical Chinese Communist Party during the Republic of China (1912-1949) era, and also attempts to establish an alternative to the Chinese-Communist-Party-lead People's Republic of China as well as the Kuomintang-lead Republic of China after the establishment of PRC and expulsion of KMT from Mainland China in 1949 * Third Force (CIA), a CIA program instituted during the Korean War to destabilise China. Perhaps best known for the John T. Downey and

Richard Fecteau Richard G. Fecteau (born 1927) is an American Central Intelligence Agency operative who was captured by the People's Republic of China during a CIA-sponsored flight in the Korean War. News of the capture of Fecteau and John T. Downey reached the ...

shootdown. Also known as Operation Tropic. *

Third Force (France) The Third Force (, ) was a political alliance during the Fourth Republic (1947–1958) which gathered the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) party, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), the Radicals, the ...

, a French political coalition during the Fourth Republic * Third Force (Hong Kong), a political party in Hong Kong, supportive of China * Third Force (Iran), a socialist–nationalist political movement in Iran during Abadan Crisis * Third Force (Northern Ireland), a former Northern Irish paramilitary organisation * Third Force (Myanmar), the informal name given to a collection of new political parties in Myanmar which contested the 2010 Burmese elections * Third force (1996 Russian presidential election), an electoral coalition proposed during the 1996 Russian presidential election *

Third Force (South Africa) The "Third Force" was a term used by leaders of the ANC during the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to a clandestine force believed to be responsible for a surge in violence in KwaZulu-Natal, and townships around and south of the Witwatersr ...

, a late apartheid-era militants, resistant to change * Third Force (Ukraine), a Ukrainian political party * Third Force (Georgia), a defunct Georgian political coalition

Music

3rd Force 3rd Force is a smooth jazz band consisting of William Aura, Craig Dobbin, and Alain Eskinasi. The band's eponymous first album was released in 1994. It was followed by others with "Force" in the title. "3rd Force is considerably more eclectic t ...

, a smooth jazz band * ''Third Force'', a 1991 Jazz CD by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist

Thomas Chapin Thomas Chapin (March 9, 1957 – February 13, 1998) was an American composer and saxophone, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. His music spanned the full range of 20th century creative music, from his time as Lionel Hampton's bandleader ...

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