There are a large number of political parties named the Social Democratic Party. Broadly speaking, a political party which identifies itself by the name Social Democratic Party may be considered as espousing the principles of Social Democracy, but the Portuguese and Gibraltarian parties are regarded as exceptions to this rule. Not all social democratic parties use the explicit name mentioned above like the British Labour Party for instance. For a broader list of social democratic parties, see List of social democratic parties
The following is a list of such parties by country:
* The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was a historical Russian party that later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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