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.

The 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 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	Yahya Jammeh	Right-wing	Anti-colonialism Religious conservatism Right-wing populism	2 / 58

Other parties

• All Peoples Party (APP)
• Alliance for National Re-orientation and Development (ANRD)
• Citizens’ Alliance (CA)
• Gambia Action Party (GAP)
• Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC)
• Gambia For All (GFA)
• Gambia Moral Congress (GMC)
• Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress (GPDP)
• National Convention Party (NCP)
• National People's Party (NPP)
• People's Progressive Party (PPP)

Possible defunct parties

• National Alliance for Democracy and Development
• National Democratic Action Movement
• Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party (GSRP)
• Gambian People's Party (GPP)

See also

• List of political parties by country