United Democratic Party (Tanzania)

United Democratic Party Chama cha UDP (Swahili)
Abbreviation	UDP
Chairman	John Cheyo
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Dar es Salaam
Ideology	Liberalism
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The United Democratic Party (UDP) is an opposition liberal party in Tanzania. ^[1] The party is an observer at Liberal International.^{[ citation needed ]}

Electoral performance

At the 2000 legislative elections, the party won 2 out of 269 seats in the National Assembly. In the presidential elections of the same day, its candidate John Cheyo won 4.2% of the vote.

The party didn't field a presidential candidate on the 14 December 2005 election, but did win one seat in National Assembly elections held on the same day.

Election results

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1995	John Cheyo	258,734	3.97%	LostN
2000		342,891	4.20%	LostN
2005	Did not participate
2010	Did not participate
2015	Did not participate
2020	Did not participate
2025	Saum Hussein Rashid	21,964	0.07%	LostN

See also

• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy

References

1. Jonas Ewald (July 2013). Challenges for the Democratisation Process in Tanzania. Moving Towards Consolidation Years After Independence?. African Books Collective. pp. 368–. ISBN   978-9987-08-250-6.