List of political parties in Wales

Major parties

Minor parties

Registered parties without elected representation in Wales

Defunct parties

• South Wales Socialist Society - amalgamated with the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1920s.
• Communist Party of South Wales and the West of England - set up by those who opposed amalgamation with the Communist Party of Great Britain
• Welsh Republican Movement - most members either returned to Plaid Cymru or joined the Labour Party
• Welsh Socialist Republican Movement - succeeded as a political party in 1986 by Cymru Goch, however it still exists as a publication
• Cymru Goch - evolved into Forward Wales.
• Balchder Cymru - amalgamated into Mudiad Rhyddhad Cymru and reformed as a political pressure group in 2006.
• John Marek Independent Party - short lived party which became Forward Wales.
• Forward Wales
• Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group - party set-up in Blaenau Gwent. Its leader, Dai Davies, retired from politics and the party disbanded.
• Putting Llanelli First - Siân Caiach ran for the party in the Welsh Assembly seat of Llanelli in 2011 and 2016.
• Respect-The Unity Coalition - a party established by Salma Yaqoob and George Monbiot and built out of the Stop the War Coalition, its most notable candidate was George Galloway
• Welsh Socialist Alliance an alliance between the Socialist Party and Cymru Goch and some independents, which fell apart when the Socialist Party left the grouping
• Cymru Annibynnol / Cymru Rydd - a left-wing, republican, pro independence party which is no longer registered