The Centre Party (Centerpartiet) is a political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden. The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social liberal focusing on agricultural, environmental, and rural questions.
The Centre Party (in Finnish: Suomen Keskusta, Kesk.) is a centrist political party in Finland. It is one of the three largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democrats (SDP) and the Coalition Party. Currently the Centre Party has the most seats, 55 out of 200, in the Finnish Parliament.
The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. The party dissolved itself on July 6, 1933, shortly before the conclusion of a Concordat between the Holy See and Germany. After World War II, the party was refounded, but could not rise again to its former importance, as most of its members joined the new CDU party.
The Centre Party (Senterpartiet, Sp) is a Norwegian political party founded in 1920. Until 1959 it bore the name Bondepartiet ("The Farmers' Party"). The Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the great ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralized economic development and political decision-making.
The Centre Party is an informal political party in Nauru. It was formed by the former President of Nauru, Kinza Clodumar, and supported René Harris, Clodumar's ally, in the Parliament, mainly in votes of no confidence for or against Harris.
The Centre Party (Centrumpárt) is a political party in Hungary. At the last legislative elections, on 9 and 23 April 2006, the party won 0.32% of the popular vote and no seats. The Centre Party came into being in 2001, with the cooperation of the Christian Democratic People's Party (Keresztény Demokrata Néppárt - KDNP) the Hungarian Democratic People's Party (Magyar Demokrata Néppárt - MDNP) and the Greens.
The Centre Party (Miðflokkurin) is a Christian conservative political party in the Faroe Islands, led by Jenis Av Rana. At the last legislative elections, 20 January 2004, the party won 5.2 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 32 seats.
The Center Party (Mifleget Hamerkaz; מפלגת המרכז) was a splinter group formed as "Israel in the Center" in 1999 by former Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai composed at that time of himself, David Magen/Monsonego, and Dan Meridor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party, Knesset members Hagai Merom and Nissim Zvili of the Israeli Labour Party, and Eliezer Sandberg of the Likud's internal faction "Tzomet", the former party of Gen. Rafael Eitan. The aim of Mordechai's party was to create a group of moderates to challenge both Netanyahu on the right and opposition leader Ehud Barak's Labour Party on the left.
The Centre Party is a recently developed political party in Jersey. It formed in 2005, in advance of changes to the system of government in Jersey from a committee to a ministerial system of government. Its first chairman was Larry Adams.
The Centre Party (in Dutch: Centrumpartij, CP) was a Dutch nationalist political party espousing an anti-immigrant program. The CP was methodically isolated by the other parties in the Dutch Parliament.