Defunct and Historical Parties in The United Kingdom
- Campaign for Social Democracy (1973–1974)
- Countryside Party (2000–2008)
- Democratic Labour (1972–1979)
- Democratic Party (1998–2010)
- Green Party (UK), formed as PEOPLE, or the Ecology Party, in 1973 and succeeded in 1990 by the Green Party of England and Wales, the Green Party in Northern Ireland and the Scottish Green Party
- Fellowship Party (1955–2007). Environmentalist, pacifist and socialist party.
- Islamic Party of Britain (1989–2006)
- Legalise Cannabis Alliance (1999–2006). Party campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis, deregistered and became a pressure group in 2006.
- Liberal Party (1839–1988)
- Liberal Unionist Party (1886–1912)
- Make Politicians History (2005–2009)
- Miss Great Britain Party (2008–2009)
- National Democratic and Labour Party (1918–1923)
- National Liberal Party (1922–1923)
- National Liberal Party (1931–1968)
- National Socialist Party (1916–1919)
- Natural Law Party (1992–2004)
- New Party (1931–1932)
- No2EU:Yes to Democracy, a left-wing, Eurosceptic electoral alliance that stood in the 2009 European elections, succeeded by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition in 2010
- ProLife Alliance. Still operating as a pressure group, ProLife deregistered as a political party in 2004.
- Referendum Party (1997 election)
- Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1931–1951, 1965–1978)
- Social Democratic Party (1981–1990)
- Trust Party (2010–2011)
- Women's Party (1917–1919)
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