Worldwide multi-party election

[Crumpets]

If we had elections on a world-wide basis, similar to EU Parliament elections, what parties would emerge? What would their ideologies be? Who would win in what countries, and who would win a plurality of seats? What kind of coalitions would be formed?

Here are some possible parties I can think of:

Liberal Party (centrist): Moderately liberal economically, center-left on social issues. Does well in North America, Europe, Oceania, and the greater "West" generally.
Social Democratic Party (center-left): Moderate socialists, does well in parts of Europe.
Christian Labor Party (left-wing): Socialist, Catholic base. Dominant in Latin America
People's Party (right-wing): Supports nationalism, devolution, autonomy, with a strong pro-Russian flavor. Does well in parts of the former Soviet Union, especially Russia.
Islamic Justice Party (Big-tent): Supports (Sunni) Islamic interests, with a combination of left-wing economics and right-wing social policy. Dominant in Sunni-majority Areas.
Non-Aligned Party (left-wing): Big on development, "third-world" interests. Supports economic justice and fair trade. Main base of Support in Africa, with some support in South Asia and Latin America.
The Followers (right-wing): Shi'a party, closely associated with Iran.
Maoist Party (far-left): Basically the "China party," and not necessarily trying to speak for all Maoists, but rather trying to promote the Chinese agenda.
People's Congress (big tent): India's counterweight to China, no coherent ideology beyond promoting Indian interests.
The United Left (far-left): Loose amalgamation of various communist movements around the world - doesn't get much done, but can rely on the support of countries like Cuba and Vietnam.
Indigenous People's Party (left-wing): Supports indigenous people around the world, anti-colonialist.
Zionist Party (big tent): Meant to be the party for Jews around the world, but support is largely concentrated in Israel.
Juche Party (left-wing): North Korea's party
Qutbist Party (right-wing): Party for far-right Islamists
Global Greens (left-wing): Greenies, get some votes in Scandanavia
People's Front (far-right): Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and their ilk.
Action Party (left-wing): Pirate party, Occupy, anarcho-socialists, strong feminists, etc.
The Five Rhinoceros Movement (big tent, center-left): Joke party, protest votes

[Crumpets]

Many depends on voting system.

If there will be proportional elections with a threshold on a global level, then we, of course, won't see Zionist Party, Juche Party and most probably even a Shi'a party (Shi'a Muslims make up at best 2-3 % of the world population, they are divided internally and not all of them would vote along religious lines). Latin American leftists will probably either unite with social democrats or form a worldwide coalition of reformed communists and democratic socialists. Greens could join social democrats or split between social democratic, democratic socialist and liberal coalitions. Only India and China could afford to have national parties running in global elections without being a part of any international party/coalition.

If there will be proportional elections on national level without a global threshold (like the EU parliamentary elections) or any kind of majoritarian elections, then already existing parties will continue to run the show (of course, political landscape will change drastically in a countries where there are no currently free competitive multi-party elections, though in many of them currently ruling party would still have a good chance to obtain majority of seats), and in the parliament most of them will form very loose coalitions, probably along the already existing internationals. Regional factor would be big as well: e. g. while many African parties will formally join Socialist or Liberal International, most of them could at the same time form a pan-African group, and division between developing and developed world (or, more likely, more developed and less developed parts of developing world, since developing world would dominate the world parliament due to it's huge population size) probably will be more significant in most cases than ideological differences (especially taking into account how many parties only nominally belong to their declared ideology). But while there will be quite a few of international coalitions of various kinds, it will take a lot of time until a truly worldwide parties (rather than a loose groupings of national parties) will emerge. Even in the EU, national parties still play more important role than pan-European ones.

When I came up with that list I was imagining a system where every country would be guaranteed a certain number of representatives, but they would be allowed to determine how to select those people on their own - thus some countries might to a proportional selection, some might do first-past-the-post, and others (like North Korea) would just have the government appoint them.

That's just what I was thinking, but if you have any other ideas of how a worldwide election should be conducted, I'd love to hear them.

Speaking about your list of possible parties: some of them will be too insignificant to worth mention, while at the same time you forgot about Christian democratic / conservative party similar to European People's Party which would unite major centre-right parties in Europe and possibly other parts of the world (the USA, Canada, Latin America etc.).

Definitely true.

[Crumpets]

What do US conservatives vote for?

I was thinking the Liberal Party in this scenario for more center-right people and the People's Party for more Trump-oriented types. But the point of this thread isn't to try to divvy everyone up into the parties I posted, it was to see what parties/groups other people could come up with as plausible options for a world congress.

[Crumpets]

Just to reiterate, I wasn't intending this to be a "who would you vote for?" thread, but a "what do you think would happen?" thread. But hey, whatever floats your boat...

[Crumpets]

Again - if you have a different idea of what parties would develop, post it. That was my intention for this thread at least.