Progressive Party | |
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Chairman | Bernie Sanders |
House Leader | Steny Hoyer |
Senate Leader | Barbara Boxer |
Founder | Theodore Roosevelt |
Founded | 1912 |
Youth wing | Young Bull Mooses |
Ideology | Progressivism Populism Internal factions: • Green politics • Civil libertarianism • Centrism |
Political position | Center-left to left |
Colors | Green |
Seats in the Senate | 51 / 112 |
Seats in the House of Representatives | 236 / 443 |
State Governors | 20 / 56 |
The Progressive Party is one of the three major parties, along with the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, of the U.S.
As of the 113th Congress, following the 2012 elections, the Progressive Party holds a majority of seats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, as well as control of a minority of state governorships.