List of All National and State political parties of India

India has a multi-party structure with acceptance granted to national, state, and district level parties. The Election Commission of India (ECI) reviews the rank/position periodically.

Other political parties that are run to contest the local, state, or national elections need to register themselves by the Election Commission of India specifically.

Political Parties can be either a national level or state level parties based on objective criteria.

1. A recognized party adores privileges like-a reserved party symbol,
2. free transmission time on state-run television or radio,
3. a negotiation in updating election dates and giving advice in setting electoral rules and regulations.

Moreover, national and state parties need to fulfill these conditions for all Lok Sabha or State elections; otherwise, they lose their status.

All recognized registered parties contesting elections are required to choose a symbol from the available list of symbols assigned by the EC.

Each of the 28 states of India along with the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, National Capital Territory of Delhi, and Puducherry consist of elected governments until President’s rule is imposed under certain specific situations.

National political party

A reported party has to fulfill any one of the two conditions before it declares itself as a national party:

1. A party must win two percent of the seats in the Lok sabha from a minimum of three different states.
2. The party gains 6 percent of votes in any four or more states at a general election to Lok Sabha or Legislative Assembly, and additionally, it must win four Lok Sabha seats.

List of the national political parties:

S.I. No.	Name	Abbreviation	Foundation year	Founder/s of the party
1	All India Trinamool Congress	AITC	1998	Mamata Banerjee
2	Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	1984	Kanshi Ram
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	1980	Syama Prasad Mukherjee (Bharatiya Jana Sangh)
4	Communist Party of India	CPI	1925	Abani Mukherji
5	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	CPI(M)	1964	P. Sundarayya
6	Indian National Congress	INC	1885	Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji
7	Nationalist Congress Party	NCP	1999	Sharad Pawar
8	National People’s Party	NPP	2013	P. A. Sangma

  State political party

A party has to cope up with any of the stated conditions in order to get recognized as a state party:

1. A party must acquire at least 6 percent of valid votes polled in an election and wins a minimum of 2 seats in a state assembly and one seat in Lok Sabha.
2. A party shall win at least three percent of the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly.
3. A party must win a minimum one seat in the Lok Sabha out of 25 seats or any fraction of it given and reserved to that State.
4. According to the liberalized criteria, it should be eligible to get recognized as a state party provided it secures 8 percent or more out of the total valid votes polled in the State.

List of recognized state political parties:

S.I. No.	Name	Abbreviation	Year of Foundation	The current leader of the Recognised State party
1	Aam Aadmi Party	AAP	2012	Arvind Kejriwal
2	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	AIADMK	1972	Edappadi K. Palaniswami
3	All India Forward Bloc	AIFB	1939	Debabrata Biswas
4	All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen	AIMIM	1927	Asaduddin Owaisi
5	All India N.R. Congress	AINRC	2011	N. Rangaswamy
6	All India United Democratic Front	AIUDF	2004	Badruddin Ajmal
7	All Jharkhand Students Union	AJSU	1986	Sudesh Mahto
8	Asom Gana Parishad	AGP	1985	Atul Bora
9	Biju Janata Dal	BJD	1997	Naveen Patnaik
10	Bodoland People’s Front	BPF	1985	Hagrama Mohilary
11	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	DMDK	2005	Vijayakanth
12	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	DMK	1949	M. K. Stalin
13	Goa Forward Party	GFP	2016	Vijai Sardesai
14	Hill State People’s Democratic Party	HSPDP	1968	Hopingstone Lyngdoh
15	Indian National Lok Dal	INLD	1999	Om Prakash Chautala
16	Indian Union Muslim League	IUML	1948	Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal
17	Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura	IPFT	2009	Mevar Kumar
18	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	JKNC	1932	Omar Abdullah
19	Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party	JKNPP	1982	Bhim Singh
20	Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party	JKPDP	1998	Mehbooba Mufti
21	Janta Congress Chhattisgarh	JCC	2016	Ajit Jogi
22	Janata Dal (United)	JD(U)	1999	Nitish Kumar
23	Jannayak Janta Party	JJP	2018	Dushyant Chautala
24	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	JMM	1972	Shibu Soren
25	Kerala Congress (M)	KC(M)	1979	C. F. Thomas
26	Lok Janshakti Party	LJP	2000	Ram Vilas Paswan
27	Maharashtra Navnirman Sena	MNS	2006	Raj Thackeray
28	Mizoram People’s Conference	MPC	1972	Lalhmingthanga
29	Naga People’s Front	NPF	2002	T. R. Zeliang
30	People’s Democratic Alliance	PDA	2012	Bd. Behring Anal
31	Rashtriya Janata Dal	RJD	1997	Lalu Prasad Yadav
32	Rashtriya Lok Dal	RLD	1998	Chaudhary Ajit Singh
33	Rashtriya Lok Samta Party	RLSP	2013	Upendra Kushwaha
34	Samajwadi Party	SP	1992	Akhilesh Yadav
35	Shiv Sena	SS	1966	Uddhav Thackeray
36	Sikkim Democratic Front	SDF	1993	Pawan Kumar Chamling
37	Telugu Desam Party	TDP	1982	N. Chandrababu Naidu
38	United Democratic Party	UDP	1972	Metbah Lyngdoh
39	YSR Congress Party	YSRCP	2011	Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

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