One Party States

1945-95


Principle Single Party States, 1945-1995:

NATION PARTY BEGAN ENDED DURATION
Mexico National Revolutionary Party 1920 (not yet) 50
North Korea Communist Party 1946 (not yet) 49
Mongolia Communist Party 1924 1992 47
China Kungchantang (Communist Party ) 1949 (not yet) 46
Russia Communist Party 1917 1991 46
Yugoslavia Communist Party 1945 1990 45
Taiwan Kuomintang (Nationalists) 1945 1989 44
Albania Communist Party 1947 1989 42
Bulgaria Communist Party 1947 1989 42
Hungary Communist Party 1947 1989 42
Poland Communist Party 1947 1989 42
Romania Communist Party 1947 1989 42
Czechoslovakia Communist Party 1948 1989 41
Vietnam Communist Party 1954 (not yet) 41
East Germany Communist Party 1948 1989 40
Cote D'Ivoire Parti Democratique 1958 1993 35
Cuba Partido Communist 1960 (not yet) 35
Liberia True Whig 1878 1980 35
Spain National Movement 1939 1976 31
Tanzania Tanganyika African Nat'l Union / Chama Cha Mapinduzi 1961 1992 31
Tunisia Parti Socialisti Destourien 1956 1987 31
Gabon Parti Democratique Gabonais 1960 1990 30
Malawi Malawi Congress Party 1964 1994 30
Portugal União Nacional 1930 1974 29
Cameroon National Cameroonian Union 1966 1992 26
Guinea Democratic Party of Guinea 1958 1984 26
Zambia United National Independence Party 1964 1990 26
Kenya Kenya African National Union 1965 1991 26
Syria Baath Arab Socialist Party 1970 (not yet) 25
Congo Congolese Labor Party 1968 1991 23
Sierra Leone All-People's Congress 1973 1994 21
Laos Lao People's Revolutionary Party 1975 (not yet) 20

Relative Population of One-Party States

(Where power was kept for more than 30 years)

Notes:

["Duration"]

Only the years 1945-95 are counted.

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