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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.
| Name | Abbr. | Founded | Leader | Political position | Ideology | Assembly | |
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| National People's Party | NPP | 2019 | Adama Barrow | Centre-right | Social conservatism | 18 / 58 | |
| United Democratic Party | UDP | 1996 | Ousainou Darboe | Centre to centre-left | Social liberalism Constitutionalism Social democracy | 15 / 58 | |
| National Reconciliation Party | NRP | 1996 | Hamat Bah | Reconciliation Constitutionalism Populism | 4 / 58 | ||
| People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism | PDOIS | 1986 | Halifa Sallah | Left-wing | Socialism | 2 / 58 | |
| Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction | APRC | 1996 | Fabakary Jatta | Right-wing | Anti-colonialism Religious conservatism Right-wing populism | 2 / 58 | |
| Name | Abbr. | Founded | Leader | Political position | Ideology | |
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| All Peoples Party | APP | |||||
| Alliance for National Re-orientation and Development | ANRD | |||||
| Citizens’ Alliance | CA | |||||
| Gambia Action Party | GAP | |||||
| Gambia Democratic Congress | GDC | 2016 | Mama Kandeh | Centre to centre-left | Social democracy Third Way | |
| Gambia For All | GFA | |||||
| Gambia Moral Congress | GMC | 2009 | Mai Ahmad Fatty | |||
| Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress | GPDP | 2006 | Henry Gomez | |||
| National Convention Party | NCP | 1975 | Centre-left | |||
| People's Progressive Party | PPP | 1959 | Kebba E. Jallow | Centre to centre-left | Third Way Agrarianism | |
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