List of political parties in the Gambia
This article lists political parties in the Gambia. The Gambia has multiparty political system but been a one party dominant state in most of the last 25 years with the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction in power until December 2016 when it lost to a coalition of 7 opposition parties that ushered in the third republic.
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The parties
Parliamentary parties
| Name | Abbr. | Founded | Leader | Political position | Ideology | Assembly | |
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| United Democratic Party | UDP | 1996 | Ousainou Darboe | Centre to centre-left | Social liberalism Constitutionalism Liberal democracy |
27 / 58 | |
| National Reconciliation Party | NRP | 1996 | Hamat Bah | Reconciliation Constitutionalism Populism |
5 / 58 | ||
| Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction | APRC | 1996 | Yahya Jammeh | Right-wing | Anti-colonialism Religious conservatism Right-wing populism |
5 / 58 | |
| Gambia Democratic Congress | GDC | 2016 | Mama Kandeh | Centre to centre-left | Social democracy Third Way |
5 / 58 | |
| People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism | PDOIS | 1986 | Halifa Sallah | Left-wing | Socialism | 4 / 58 | |
| People's Progressive Party | PPP | 1959 | Kebba E. Jallow | Centre to centre-left | Third Way Agrarianism |
2 / 58 | |
Other parties
- Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress
- National Convention Party
- Gambia Moral Congress
- All Peoples Party
- Gambia For All
- Citizens’ Alliance
- ANRD
- All Peoples Party
- National People's Party
- Gambia Action Party
Possible defunct parties
See also
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