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This article lists political parties in Barbados.
Barbados has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Occasionally various members of political parties in Barbados have used an option of crossing the floor.
| Party | Abbr. | Leader | Political position | Ideology | Senators | Assembly members | |
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| Barbados Labour Party | BLP | Mia Mottley | Centre-left | Social democracy Republicanism | 12 / 21 | 29 / 30 | |
| Democratic Labour Party | DLP | Ralph Thorne | Centre-left | Social democracy Republicanism | 2 / 21 | 1 / 30 | |
| People’s Party for Democracy and Development | PdP | Joseph Atherley | Centre-left | Christian democracy Christian socialism | 0 / 21 | 0 / 30 | |
Names in italics denote Electoral Alliances
A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time, one of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority or governing party while the other is the minority or opposition party. Around the world, the term has different meanings. For example, in the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe, the sense of two-party system describes an arrangement in which all or nearly all elected officials belong to either of the two major parties, and third parties rarely win any seats in the legislature. In such arrangements, two-party systems are thought to result from several factors, like "winner takes all" or "first past the post" election systems. The electoral competition is mostly limited to the two major parties.
The politics of Barbados function within a framework of a parliamentary republic with strong democratic traditions; constitutional safeguards for nationals of Barbados include: freedom of speech, press, worship, movement, and association.
The Portuguese Communist Party is a communist, Marxist–Leninist political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist, and it is characterized as being between the left-wing and far-left on the political spectrum.
An electoral alliance is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections.
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