Third Force may refer to:
Politics
- Third party (politics), party other than one of the two dominant ones in a two-party political system
- Third party (United States), in American politics
- Third parties in a two-party system, in which two political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government
- Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, called "Third party" in the 1930s
- Third Force, a term referring to Canadians of neither British or French descent; see Multiculturalism in Canada § Incipient stage (pre-1971)
- Third Force (China) [zh], attempts to establish another force against the authoritarian Kuomintang and the radical Chinese Communist Party during the Republic of China (1912-1949) era, and also attempts to establish an alternative to the Chinese-Communist-Party-lead People's Republic of China as well as the Kuomintang-lead Republic of China after the establishment of PRC and expulsion of KMT from Mainland China in 1949
- Third Force (CIA), a CIA program instituted during the Korean War to destabilise China. Perhaps best known for the John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau shootdown. Also known as Operation Tropic.
- Third Force (France), a French political coalition during the Fourth Republic
- Third Force (Hong Kong), a political party in Hong Kong, supportive of China
- Third Force (Iran), a socialist–nationalist political movement in Iran during Abadan Crisis
- Third Force (Northern Ireland), a former Northern Irish paramilitary organisation
- Third Force (Myanmar), the informal name given to a collection of new political parties in Myanmar which contested the 2010 Burmese elections
- Third force (1996 Russian presidential election), an electoral coalition proposed during the 1996 Russian presidential election
- Third Force (South Africa), a late apartheid-era militants, resistant to change
- Third Force (Ukraine), a Ukrainian political party
- Third Force (Georgia), a defunct Georgian political coalition
Music
- 3rd Force, a smooth jazz band
- Third Force, a 1991 Jazz CD by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Thomas Chapin
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