Q&A: Election abbreviations

The results service on the BBC News election website sometimes uses abbreviations in place of full party names where space is limited.

You can use the table below, ordered alphabetically by party name, to see which abbreviation is used for which party.

Party name	Abbreviation
Alliance for Change	Change
Alliance for Green Socialism	AGS
Alternative Party	Alternative
Alliance Party	Alliance
Ashfield Independents	Ashfield
Build Duddon and Morecambe Bridges	Bridges
Blair Must Go Party	Blair Go
British National Party	BNP
British Public Party	Brit Public
Clause 28	Clause 28
Community Action Party	Community
Common Good	Common Good
Community Group	Comm Group
Civilisation Party	Civil
Church of the Militant Elvis Party	Elvis
Conservative	Conservative
Christian Peoples Alliance	Christian PA
Communist Party of Britain	Communist
Croydon Pensions Alliance	Croydon
"Death, Dungeons & Taxes "	Death
Demanding Honesty in Politics and Whitehall	Honesty
Democratic Labour Party	Dem Lab
Democratic Socialist Alliance - People Before Profit	Dem Socs
Democratic Unionist Party	DUP
English Democrats	Eng Dems
English Independence Party	English Ind
English Parliamentary Party	Eng Parl
Families First	Fam First
For Integrity And Trust In Government	Integrity
Freedom Party	FRP
Free Scotland Party	Free Scot
Forward Wales	Forwd Wales
Get Britian Back Party	Britian Back
Green	Green
Independent Green Voice	Ind Grn
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern	Ind Kid Hosp
Imperial Party	Imper Party
Independent Progressive Labour Party	Prog Lab
Independent Working Class Association	Workers
Iraq War. Not In My Name	Iraq
Islam Zinda Baad Platform	IZB Platform
Justice Party	Justice
Labour	Labour
Legalise Cannabis Alliance	Cannabis
Local Community Party	Local Comm
Liberal Democrat	Lib Dem
Liberal Party	Liberal
Removal Of Tetramasts In Cornwall	Masts
Max Power Party	Max
Millennium Council	Millennium
Motorcycle News Party	Motorbike
Mebyon Kernow	Mebyon Kern
Monster Raving Loony Party	Loony
Newcastle Academy with Christian Values Party	Newcastle
New England Party	New England
National Front	Nat Front
New Millennium Bean Party	Bean Party
Northern Progress	N Progress
Operation Christian Vote	Christian
Open Forum	Open Forum
Organisation of Free Democrats	Free Dems
Peace and Progress	Peace
Plaid Cymru	Plaid Cymru
Progressive Democratic Party	Progressive
The Pensioners Party	Pensioners
People of Horsham First Party	Horsham
Pride in Paisley Party	Pride
Pensioners Party Scotland	Pens Scot
Personality AND Rational Thinking? Yes! Party	PARTY
Publican Party - Free to Smoke	Pub Party
Protest Vote Party	Protest
Residents` Association of London	Res Ass
Respect-Unity Coalition	Respect
Resolutionist Party	Resolve
Rock `N	Rock Loony
Socialist Alternative	Soc Alt
Save Bristol North Baths Party	Save Baths
Social Democratic & Labour Party	SDLP
Socialist Environmental Alliance	SEA
Senior Citizens Party	OAPs
Sinn Fein	Sinn Fein
Scottish Green Party	Scottish Grn
Scottish Independence Party	Scot Ind
Socialist Labour Party	Soc Labour
Silent Majority Party	Silent
Safeguard the NHS	Save NHS
SNP	SNP
Socialist Party	Socialist
S O S! Voters Against Overdevelopment of Northampton	SOS
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party	SSCP
Scottish Socialist Party	Scottish Soc
St Albans Party	St Alban
Socialist Unity	Soc Unity
Scottish Unionist Party	Scot Union
Telepathic Partnership	Telepathic
Tiger's Eye - the Party for Kids	Tiger's Eye
The Community (London Borough of Hounslow)	Community
Their Party	Their
The People`s Choice! Exclusively For All	Peoples
The Peace Party	Peace
Third Way	Third Way
UK Community Issues Party	UK Com
UK Independence Party	UKIP
United Kingdom Pathfinders	UK Path
Ulster Unionist Party	UUP
Virtue Currency Cognitive Appraisal Party	Virtue
Veritas	Veritas
Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket	Yourself
World	World
Workers Party	Workers
Wessex Regionalists	Wessex
Workers Revolutionary Party	Workers Rev
Xtraordinary People Party	Xtra People
Your Party	Your Party