List of political parties in Jamaica

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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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] See 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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