Political Parties performed various functions. Some of them are :

(i) Parties contest elections.

(ii)Parties put forward different policies and programmes and voters choose from them.

(iii) Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country.

(iv)Parties form and run goverments.

(v)Those parties that lose in the elections plays the role of opposition to the parties in power. 

(vi)Parties shape public opinon.

(vii)Parties provide people access to goverment machinery and welfare schemes implemented by the goverments.