List of political parties in Rio Blanco
There are currently several parties in Rio Blanco, with the most important ones being the left-wing Progressive Party and the right-wing Conservatives.
The formation of parties was officially allowed on 4 August 1876, on the second round of the first presidential election. There, two parties competed: Home Guard (later split into Home Guard Party, now Conservatives, and the Constitution Party) and Liberty (later merged with the Progressives).
Parties are given an official color and a symbol to represent them in ballots. When a party is dissolved, its color and symbol are relinquished and up for reuse.
Rioblancoan law allows a voter to be registered for two parties (one nationwide, the other statewide). For instance, many members of the Honeybee Independence Movement are also registered to the Conservatives of Rio Blanco and are counted as stable members of both parties, while members of the Northerners' Front are usually registered as statweide members of the Front and as nationwide independent voters.
Parties
Seated parties
Unseated parties
Parties registered in some states
Logo | Name | Founded | Ideology | Curreny Secretary | States covered | |
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Honeybee Independence Movement (HIM) | 1931 | Mormonism, Salt Laker independence from Rio Blanco, Traditionalist conservatism, Social conservatism, Dominion Theology | Nicodemus Harley | Salt Lake, Uinta | ||
Rio Blanco Justice Party (J) | 2015 | Populism, Social democracy, Progressivism, Environmentalism, Social justice | Jake DiClaudio | Cherry Creek, Uinta, Sawatch, Ouray, Las Mesas | ||
New Home Guard Party (HG) | 1998 | National conservatism, Fiscal conservatism, Social conservatism, Libertarianism | Kyle Baumgartner | Baynice, Sawatch, El Paso, Cherry Creek | ||
File:Flag of the Northerners' Front.png | Northerners' Front (colloquially Northie) (N) |
1891 | Separation of Uinta, Baynice and Sioux from Rio Blanco, Revival of the Honookee Republic, Big tent, Populism | Lewis McAuley | Uinta, Baynice, Sioux, Salt Lake | |
True Colorado Party (colloquially Colo) (TC) |
1929 | Separation of Colorado from the rest of Rio Blanco, Big tent | George Neusen | Cherry Creek, El Paso, Las Mesas, Moffat, Ouray, Sawatch, Yuma | ||
Yuma German Party Jumadaitsh Partai (J) |
1902 | German Rioblancoan minorty politics, preservation of Yuma German, Big tent | Eddie Hahnpfaffer | Yuma, El Paso, Cherry Creek, Sioux |
Defunct parties
Logo | Name | Founded | Dissolved | Ideology | Last Secretary | Notes | |
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Liberty Party of Rio Blanco (Lib.) | 1876 | 1884 | Centrism, Liberalism, Right to keep and bear arms, Social liberalism | Charlton Kessey (original party) Gene Scolamassi (1986 party) |
Merged into the Progressive Party. Another reincarnation of the party was founded in 1986 and dissolved in 1989. | ||
Rioblancoan National Party (Nat.) | 1999 | 2000 | Liberalism, National conservatism, Fiscal conservativism, Right to keep and bear arms, Centrism | Don Luller | Short-lived attempt to merge the Conservatives and Liberals. | ||
Rio Blanco Union Party (U) | 1876 | 1879 | Americanism, Christian democracy, Opposition to Rioblancoan secession from the United States | Grant Lanceton | Merged into the Liberty Party. | ||
Prohibition Party of Rio Blanco (Phn.) | 1876 | 1935 | Temperance, Social conservativism | George H. Collins | Merged into the Home Guard Party. Declined dramatically after the repeal of Prohibition in Rio Blanco in 1933 and after its last chairman, George Collins, switched to the Home Guard Party. Offspring parties still competing in some states. | ||
Social Assembly of Rio Blanco (SA) | 1892 | 1978 | Social democracy, Democratic socialism, Labor rights | Lester Campbell | Merged into the Progressive Party, some members left for the Communist Party. Offspring parties, such as the Social Community, still competing in some states. | ||
Rioblancoans for Hope (X) | 1926 | 2016 | Christian democracy, Social conservativism, Theocracy (radical wing) | Jeremy Crummer | Merged into Rio Blanco First. | ||
Rioblancoan People's Front (PF) | 1984 | 2016 | Centrism, Liberalism, Opposition to legalization of marijuana, Anti-abortion | Joyce Clench | Merged into the DC. | ||
File:Rio Blanco First.png | Rio Blanco First (F) | 1922 | 1 November 2016 | Paleoconservatism, National conservatism, Social conservativism, Right-wing populism, Opposition to immigration, Christian right, Isolationism, Protectionism | Will Hoplin | Merged into the Conservatives. | |
File:Dead Center Party.png | Dead Center Party (DC) | 1976 | 15 March 2017 | Radical centrism, Christian democracy, Libertarianism, Liberism, Communitarianism | Lionel Hutts | Merged into New Choice. |
Coalitions
Logo | Name | Founded | Member parties | Notes | |
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Advance | 1880 2016 (current form) |
Progressives, Greens, RB 2.0, Humanists*, Constitutionalists, Harmony, Freedom and Progress, Justice | The Humanists are not part of the Government in the House of Representatives. | ||
Liberty Alliance | 1876 2012 (current form) |
Conservatives, New Choice, RBVeterans, New Home Guard | |||
For A Better Rio Blanco | 2000 2012 (current form) |
Cobb Team, Honeybee Independence Movement, Glendrick's Rioblancoan | |||
4Change | 2015 | Communists, Union for Women, Social Community, Pirate Party | |||
Unaffiliated parties | – | Liberals, ItRIPa, Rioblancoan Sverð, Northerners' Front, True Colorado, Yuma Germans, NSARP | The NSARP was formerly part of For A Better Rio Blanco; it was later barred from the coalition in 2015. |