List of political parties in the Gambia

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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.

The parties[]

Parliamentary parties[]

Name Abbr. Founded Leader Political position Ideology Assembly
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 Centre to centre-left Third Way
Agrarianism
2 / 58

Other parties[]

Possible defunct parties[]

See also[]

  • List of political parties by country
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