List of political parties in the Gambia

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

Parliamentary parties

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 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

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 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

• 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