List of political parties in Jamaica
- List of political parties in Jamaica
Jamaica has a two-party system, the major parties being the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party. A large number of minor parties have cropped up and disintegrated in the past, with very few (if any) actually winning seats in Parliament.
Current parties
*Jamaica Labour Party – Ruling democratic party
*National Democratic Movement – minor conservative party
*People's National Party – main opposition party
*United People's Party – minor party
Defunct parties
*Agricultural Industrial Party
*Coloured Party – founded in the 1820s to campaign for full civil rights; not really a political party per se.
*Farmers' Federation
*Federation of Citizen's Association
*Jamaica Democratic Party
*Jamaica Liberal Party
*Jamaica Radical Workers Union
*Jamaica Socialist Party
*Jamaica United Party – formerly the United West Indian Party
*People's Political Party – Jamaica's first party, founded by Marcus Garvey in 1929.
*Progressive Labour Movement – merged with the People's Political Party soon after being founded in 1961.
*National Labour Party
*United Party of Jamaica
*Workers Party of Jamaica – defunct Marxist party
ee also
* Index of political parties to browse parties by name
* List of political parties to browse parties by country
* List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
* Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals
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