List of political parties in the Gambia

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	Political position	Ideology	Assembly
	National People's Party	NPP	2019	Adama Barrow	Centre	Social conservatism	22 / 58
	United Democratic Party	UDP	1996	Ousainou Darboe	Centre-left	Social liberalism Constitutionalism Social democracy	15 / 58
	National Reconciliation Party	NRP	1996	Hamat Bah	Centre-right	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