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Party City

Party City is an American party supplies brand founded in 1986 in East Hanover, New Jersey; after closing roughly 700 stores in early 2025, it relaunched inside Staples stores in 2026.

Party divisions of United States Congresses

Party divisions of United States Congresses record Senate and House seats by party for each Congress since 1789, based on initial election results; Democrats and Republicans have dominated since 1855, with third parties and mid-Congress switches altering control.

Party Down

Party Down is an American Starz workplace sitcom (2009–2010, revived 2023) created by Rob Thomas, John Enbom, Dan Etheridge, and Paul Rudd, about struggling LA cater-waiters; cancelled for low ratings, it became a cult cringe-comedy classic.

Party Down South

Party Down South is a CMT reality series (2014-2016) from 495 Productions, the makers of Jersey Shore, following eight Southern housemates across five seasons in South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida; it became CMT's highest-rated series ever.

Party for Freedom

Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV): Dutch populist radical-right party founded by Geert Wilders in 2006, with no members besides Wilders himself. It won the 2023 election with 37 seats, governed in the Schoof cabinet, and withdrew in 2025 over asylum policy.

Party for Socialism and Liberation

Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL): Marxist-Leninist US party founded 2004 by Brian Becker and others splitting from Workers World Party; democratic centralist; runs candidates; 2024 De la Cruz-Garcia ticket was its best result.

Party foundations and international democracy assistance

Party foundations are publicly funded institutes linked to parliamentary parties that support political parties and democratization abroad, ranging from Germany's large Stiftungen to small inter-party institutes like WFD.

Party game

Party game: social games with simple group rules, from charades and Truth or Dare to the video game genre defined by Mario Party (N64, 1999, Hudson Soft), board-game play plus minigames; 23.4% of internet users 16+ play monthly.

Party in the Paddock

Party in the Paddock is a four-day camping music festival held each February at Quercus Park near Carrick in Tasmania, founded in the early 2010s by Jesse Higgs.

Party in the U.S.A.

"Party in the U.S.A." is a 2009 pop song by Miley Cyrus that reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the era's best-selling digital singles.

Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives

Party leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives: the Speaker, majority and minority leaders, and whips, elected by secret caucus ballot every two years; offices date to 1899, with Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, and Hakeem Jeffries among current holders.

Party leaders of the United States Senate

Party leaders of the United States Senate: the majority and minority (floor) leaders, elected by each party conference each Congress, first arising in the 1890s, now John Thune and Chuck Schumer.

Party line (telephony)

A party line, or party line service, is a telephone line shared by two or more subscribers, each with a distinct ring or number suffix, common in rural service.

Party lists for the 2026 Israeli legislative election

Party lists for the 2026 Israeli legislative election: 38 ranked candidate slates filed with the Central Elections Committee on September 7–8, 2026 for the October 27, 26th Knesset vote, including the Beyachad Bennett–Lapid merger, Likud, Yashar!, Ra'am, and the renewed Hadash–Ta'al–Balad Joint List.

Party lists in the 2020 New Zealand general election

Party lists in the 2020 New Zealand general election filled 48 of 120 MMP seats. 17 registered parties submitted lists of 548 names; Labour took 19 list seats, National 10, Greens and ACT 9 each.

Party lists in the 2026 New Zealand general election

Party lists in the 2026 New Zealand general election: ranked lists lodged by the 17 registered parties contesting the party vote on 7 November 2026, totaling 443 list candidates, with lists due 8 October 2026.

Party Monster (film)

Party Monster (2003) is a biographical drama by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, starring Macaulay Culkin as club promoter Michael Alig, based on Disco Bloodbath and their 1998 documentary about Alig's murder of Angel Melendez.

Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)

Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus), successor of East Germany's ruling SED, renamed 1989-1990; merged with the WASG on 16 June 2007 to form Die Linke.

Party of European Socialists

Party of European Socialists (PES): European political party of socialist, social democratic, labour and democratic parties of the EU, UK and Norway; founded The Hague 1992; president Stefan Löfven; S&D is its European Parliament group.

Party of Five

Party of Five is an American Fox drama (1994-2000) by Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman about the Salinger siblings raising themselves after their parents' death; it won a 1996 Golden Globe and was rebooted on Freeform in 2020.

Party of Five (2020 TV series)

Party of Five (2020 TV series) is an American family drama created by Amy Lippman and Christopher Keyser. It follows five children after their parents are detained by ICE.

Party of Good Government

Party of Good Government (Partido del Buen Gobierno) is a Peruvian political party founded by Jorge Nieto Montesinos, registered with the JNE on 2 August 2024, self-described as a 'centro transformador', contesting Peru's 2026 elections.

Party of Labour of Albania

The Party of Labour of Albania (Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë, PPSh) was the communist party that ruled Albania as the sole legal party from 1944 to 1991.

Party of Progress (Germany)

Party of Progress (Partei des Fortschritts, PdF), a grassroots German minor party founded in 2020 in Cologne, (left-)liberal per bpb, holding one European Parliament seat (0.6%, Renew Europe) since 2024; distinct from the historic Deutsche Fortschrittspartei.

Party of Regions (Партія регіонів)

Party of Regions (Партія регіонів), Ukrainian political machine party founded 2001 from five centrist parties, Donetsk-based, led by Viktor Yanukovych; won pluralities in 2006, 2007, 2012, collapsed after 2014 Euromaidan, banned by court February 2023.

Party of the Democratic Revolution

The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) was a Mexican left-wing party founded on 5 May 1989 by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and other PRI defectors, which won Mexico City's government in 1997.

Party of the European Left

Party of the European Left (EL, Europäische Linke): European political party of socialist, communist, and democratic left parties, founded in Rome in May 2004, seated in Brussels, allied to The Left group and the transform! europe foundation.

Party of Women

Party of Women (POW) is a minor gender-critical political party registered in Great Britain in February 2024 by activist Kellie-Jay Keen (Posie Parker); it fielded 16 all-female candidate lists at the 2024 general election and calls for repeal of the Gender Recognition Act.

Party of Young People

Party of Young People (Partidul Oamenilor Tineri, POT), Romanian right-wing populist sovereigntist party founded in 2023 by Anamaria Gavrilă; backed Călin Georgescu and entered parliament in 2024 with about 6.4 percent of the vote.

Party press in North Korea

Party press in North Korea: newspapers and periodicals owned by the Workers' Party of Korea, government, and mass organizations, led by Rodong Sinmun (로동신문) and Minju Choson, all controlled by the Propaganda and Agitation Department with KCNA as the sole news source.