This article lists political parties in Dominica.

Dominica has a 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 any other party.

The parties

Parliamentary parties

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! Ideology

! House of Assembly

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| Dominica Labour Party

| DLP

| Social democracy

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Other parties

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| Dominica Freedom Party

| DFP

| Conservatism

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| People's Party of Dominica

| PPOD

| Third Way<br/>Communitarianism

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| United Workers' Party

| UWP

| Centrism

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| Team Unity Dominica

| TUD

| Progressivism

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|Unity Party of Dominica

|UPD

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|Alternative Peoples' Party

|APP

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|United Progressive Party

|UPP

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Defunct parties

  • Socialist Workers Party (SWP)
  • Dominica Liberation Movement (DLM)
  • Dominica Progressive Party (DPP)
  • Dominica United People's Party (DUPP)
  • People's Democratic Movement (PDM)

See also

  • List of political parties by country

References

  • Matthias Catón: "Dominica" in: Elections in the Americas. A Data Handbook, vol. 1, ed. by Dieter Nohlen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005: pp.&nbsp;223–237
  • https://unitypartyamerica.us/unity-party-dominica