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Political parties are a common occurrence to be found in just about any democracy. Individuals sharing similar ideologies and opinions band together to try and win elections and promote a political agenda that best serves the interests of people pertaining to that ideology and, if you're lucky, other people as well. Likewise, fictional settings that are democracies are typically shown to have political parties which reflect the issues and opinions which characterize the political climate of a story's setting.
Most often these are [
On one hand, this trope can be played seriously as it can be a reflection of people's attitudes towards the events or backstory that shape the setting; such examples may be viewed as a "realistic" political ideology that may exist had the extraordinary events in the story's world been something that occurred in the real one (and may not be all that different from [[Real Life]] party platforms ideologies, after all).
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== Comics ==
* In ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', the only democratic freedom allowed to the citizens of Mega-City One is the election of the city's Mayor, a very minor role that serves as a liaison between citizens and Justice Department. When the election campaign for [[Everything's Better With Monkeys|Dave the Orangutan]] was covered in the story arc, "Portrait of a Politician," just about every social clique was shown to have formed its own political party and running its own candidate, many of which would kill each other in mob riots leading up to the election. Named parties include the Apathetic Fringe (who don't care about any issues), the Young Norms (presumably an anti-[[Mutants|mutant]] lobby), the Lib-Lab Flab Party (presumably a Liberal-Labor party amongst the Big Meg's morbidly obese population), the Uglies (just ugly people), and the All-Out-War Party (basically a group of [[Bomb
** In the short spin-off ''Robo-Hunter'', the robots on the planet one story takes place on have built an entire government full of political parties. Since the robots are actually controlled by a genius dictator robot, the government robots are utterly insane and spend most of their time arguing and trying to push pointless agendas.
* A one-shot short that [[Alan Moore]] wrote for ''[[Two Thousand AD (Comic Book)|2000 AD]]'' called "Chronocops" (imagine "[[Time Travel]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Dragnet]]''") saw the main characters travel to a [[Next Sunday AD|not-too-distant future]] Great Britain where [[Spear Carrier|one man handing out fliers]] encourages people to vote for "the Lab-Con Alliance" as the only way to defeat the Social Democrats, suggesting that the center-left Labour Party and the center-right Conservative Party with highly conflicting party platforms have somehow become a single party.
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** The Tomorrow Party seems to have dissolved after Lex's fall from power. [[Word of God]] says that in the months after Lex's fall when Vice President Pete Ross was left to run things, Pete had to deal with massive political fallout from Lex's fall. As of the DC: Decisions storyline, featuring Republican and Democratic Party candidates in danger, there was no more mention of the Tomorrow Party.
* [[Captain America]] featured a Presidential Candidate who started the Third Wing Party. It was all part of Red Skull's latest evil scheme.
* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Norsefire]] from ''[[V for Vendetta]]''. In the film, the party came to power after a democratic election. In the graphic novel, they come to power is after labor victory fulfilled their pledge to leave NATO and were blamed for causing World War 3, but [[Alan Moore]] models them as a [[Fictional Counterpart]] to [
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has "the reigning party" and "the opposing party", which depends on who the President is.
* ''[[Bloom County]]'' gave us the Meadow Party, which the main characters formed each election year and seemed to rely more on political double-speak and good publicity than actually, you know, taking a stand for anything. It ran presidential candidates in 1984 and 1988 and lost both times.
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