List of political parties in the Gambia

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This article lists political parties in the Gambia . The Gambia was a multi-party political system starting from the 1960s, with the People's Progressive Party (PPP) led by president Dawda Jawara serving as the dominant party after the Gambia gained independence in 1965. Following the 1994 Gambian coup d'état, Yahya Jammeh was installed as president, and in 1996, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) was established as the dominant party. Many opposition parties were either banned or suppressed and the APRC managed to stay in power with little opposition until 2016, when Jammeh was defeated by opposition candidate Adama Barrow in the presidential elections.

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Parties

Parliamentary parties

NameAbbr.FoundedLeaderPolitical positionIdeology Assembly
National People's Party NPP2019 Adama Barrow Centre Social conservatism
22 / 58
United Democratic Party UDP1996 Ousainou Darboe Centre-left Social liberalism
Constitutionalism
Social democracy
15 / 58
National Reconciliation Party NRP1996 Hamat Bah Centre-right Reconciliation
Constitutionalism
Populism
4 / 58
People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism PDOIS1986 Halifa Sallah Left-wing Socialism
2 / 58
Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction APRC1996 Fabakary Jatta Right-wing Anti-colonialism
Religious conservatism
Right-wing populism
2 / 58

Other parties

NameAbbr.FoundedLeaderPolitical positionIdeology
All Peoples PartyAPP
Alliance for National Re-orientation and DevelopmentANRD
Citizens’ AllianceCA
Gambia Action PartyGAP
Gambia Democratic Congress GDC2016 Mama Kandeh Centre to centre-left Social democracy
Third Way
Gambia for AllGFA
Gambia Moral Congress GMC2009 Mai Ahmad Fatty
Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress GPDP2006Henry Gomez
National Convention Party NCP1975 Centre-left
People's Progressive Party PPP1959Kebba E. Jallow Centre to centre-left Third Way
Agrarianism

Defunct parties

References

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