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 | |
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United Democratic Party | UDP | 1996 | Ousainou Darboe | Centre to centre-left | Social liberalism Constitutionalism Liberal democracy |
27 / 58
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National Reconciliation Party | NRP | 1996 | Hamat Bah | Reconciliation Constitutionalism Populism |
5 / 58
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Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction | APRC | 1996 | Yahya Jammeh | Right-wing | Anti-colonialism Religious conservatism Right-wing populism |
5 / 58
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Gambia Democratic Congress | GDC | 2016 | Mama Kandeh | Centre to centre-left | Social democracy Third Way |
5 / 58
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People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism | PDOIS | 1986 | Halifa Sallah | Left-wing | Socialism | 4 / 58
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People's Progressive Party | PPP | 1959 | Centre to centre-left | Third Way Agrarianism |
2 / 58
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Other parties[]
- Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress
- National Convention Party
- Gambia Moral Congress
- Citizens’ Alliance
- ANRD
- National People's Party
- Gambia Action Party
Possible defunct parties[]
- National Alliance for Democracy and Development
- National Democratic Action Movement
- Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party (GSRP)
- Gambian People's Party (GPP)
See also[]
- List of political parties by country
Categories:
- Lists of political parties by country
- Political parties in the Gambia
- Gambia politics-related lists
- Lists of organisations based in the Gambia
- Lists of political parties in Africa