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.
Parties
Parliamentary parties
Name Abbr. Founded Leader Politicalposition Ideology Assembly National People's Party NPP 2019 Adama Barrow Centre Social conservatism United Democratic Party UDP 1996 Ousainou Darboe Centre-left National Reconciliation Party NRP 1996 Hamat Bah Centre-right Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction APRC 1996 Fabakary Jatta Right-wing People's Democratic Organisation forIndependence and Socialism PDOIS 1986 Halifa Sallah Left-wing Socialism
Other parties 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 democracyThird 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 WayAgrarianism
Defunct parties Coalition 2016 Democratic Congress Alliance Democratic Party Gambia National Party Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party Gambian People's Party Muslim Congress Party National Alliance for Democracy and Development National Democratic Action Movement United Party
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