List of political parties in Bangladesh

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This article lists political parties in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has a fading two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of another party.

However, though the center-left Awami League and center-right BNP dominated Bangladesh politics for a long time, currently both are heading coalitions of like-minded parties with the AL leading the secular and liberal elements while BNP is rallying the right-of-centre parties.

The parties

Parliamentary parties

• Bangladesh Awami League
• Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) (Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Dal)
• Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
• Bangladesh Jatiya Party-BJP
• Communist Party of Bangladesh
• Socialist Party of Bangladesh (SPB)
• Khilafat Majlis
• Liberal Democratic Party
• Islamic Unity Front (Islami Oikya Jote)
• Islami Oikya Jote (En. Islamic National Unity Front)
• Jatiya Party - Hussain Muhammad Ershad (En. National Party)
• Jatiyo Shomajtantrik Dal-JSD
• Jatiyo Shomajtantrik Dal
• Bangladesh National Awami Party (Bangladesh NAP)
• National Party (Manju) (Jatiya Dal (Manju))
• Peasants' and Workers' People's League (Krishak Sramik Janata League)
• Gonotantry Party (President: Mohammad Afzal, General Secretary: Nurur Rahman Salim)
• Islami Andolaon Bangladesh
• Bangladesh democratic party
• Bangladesh Representative Party (BRP)
• Bangladesh Janata Party (BJP)
• Bikolpo Dhara Bangladesh

Other parties

• Hridoyé Manush (Minhaz Elahi Islam-Mati)
• Ganosamhati Andolon
• Hizb ut-Tahrir
• Liberal Party Bangladesh
• United Bengal Liberation Movement
• Nagorik Shakti

Other lists

• List of parties participating in the 2001 Bangladesh elections

See also

• Politics of Bangladesh
• List of political parties by country