Political parties in the Bahamas may be "classified", "nonclassified", or "unclassified". Classified parties are "major" or "minor" depending on electoral performance and competitive ability.
Parties represented in Parliament
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|Progressive Liberal Party
| PLP
|Philip Davis
| Centre
|Social liberalism<br>Progressivism<br>Populism
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|Free National Movement
| FNM
|Michael Pintard
|Centre-right
|Conservative liberalism
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Classification of Bahamian Political Parties
Classified Major
- Progressive Liberal Party (PLP)
- Free National Movement (FNM)
- Bahamas Democratic Party (BDP)
- United Bahamian Party (UBP)-disbanded
- Bahama Democrat Labour Party (BDLP)
Classified Minor: Macro
- Bahamas Constitution Party (BCP)
- Democratic National Alliance (DNA)
- Coalition for Democratic Reform (CDR)
Classified Minor: Micro
- The People's Movement (TPM)
- Bahamas National Coalition Party (BNCP)
- Bahamas Constitution Party (BCP)
- God's People Party (GPP)
- Vanguard Nationalist & Socialist Party (VNSP)
Nonclassified: NANO
- Independent
New
- Bahamian Way Forward Movement (BWFM)
- Coalition of Independents (COI)
- Grand Commonwealth Party (GCP)
- Kingdom Government Movement (KGM)
- Justice Labour Party (JLP)
- Righteous Government Movement (RGM)
- United Coalition (independents)
Unclassified Political Parties (defunct)
- United Bahamian Party (UBP)
- National Development Party (NDP)
- National Democratic Party
- Bahama Democrat Labour Party (BDLP)
- Social Democratic Party (SDP)
- Workers Party (WP)
- Coalition for Democratic Reform (CDR)
- Vanguard Nationalist & Socialist Party (VNSP)
- Bahamian National Party (BNP)
- Bahamian Democratic Party (BDP)
- Commonwealth Democratic Party (CDP)
See also
- Lists of political parties