List of political parties in the Gambia

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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.

Parties[edit]

Parliamentary parties[edit]

Name Abbr. Founded Leader Political position Ideology Assembly
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
Liberal 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

Other parties[edit]

Name Abbr. Founded Leader Political position Ideology
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

Defunct parties[edit]

See also[edit]