List of political parties in the Gambia
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This article lists 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.
Parties
Parliamentary parties
| Name | Abbr. | Founded | Leader | Political position | Ideology | Assembly | |
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| National People's Party | NPP | 2019 | Adama Barrow | Centre-right
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Social conservatism | 18 / 58
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| United Democratic Party | UDP | 1996 | Ousainou Darboe | Centre to centre-left | Social liberalism Constitutionalism Liberal democracy |
15 / 58
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| National Reconciliation Party | NRP | 1996 | Hamat Bah | Reconciliation Constitutionalism Populism |
4 / 58
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| People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism | PDOIS | 1986 | Halifa Sallah | Left-wing | Socialism | 2 / 58
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| Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction | APRC | 1996 | Fabakary Jatta | Right-wing
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Religious conservatism
Right-wing populism |
2 / 58
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Other parties
| 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-left
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Social democracy Third Way | |
| Gambia For All | GFA | |||||
| Gambia Moral Congress | GMC | 2009 | Mai Ahmad Fatty
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| Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress | GPDP | 2006 | Henry Gomez | |||
| National Convention Party | NCP | 1975 | Centre-left
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| People's Progressive Party | PPP | 1959 | Kebba E. Jallow | centre-left
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Third Way Agrarianism | |
Defunct parties
- Coalition 2016
- Democratic Congress Alliance
- Democratic Party
- Gambia National Party
- Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party (GSRP)
- Gambian People's Party (GPP)
- Muslim Congress Party
- National Alliance for Democracy and Development
- National Democratic Action Movement
- United Party
See also
- List of political parties by country
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