The United Democratic Party (UDP) is an opposition liberal party in Tanzania. The party is an observer at Liberal International.
Electoral performance
At the 2000 legislative elections, the party won 2 out of 269 seats in the National Assembly. In the presidential elections of the same day, its candidate John Cheyo won 4.2% of the vote.
The party didn't field a presidential candidate on the 14 December 2005 election, but did win one seat in National Assembly elections held on the same day.
Election results
Presidential elections
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Election
!Party candidate
!Votes
!%
!Result
|-
!1995
|rowspan=2 |John Cheyo
|258,734
|3.97%
|Lost
|-
!2000
|342,891
|4.20%
|Lost
|-
!2005
|colspan=4 |Did not participate
|-
!2010
|colspan=4 |Did not participate
|-
!2015
| colspan="4" |Did not participate
|-
!2020
|colspan=4 |Did not participate
|-
!2025
|Saum Hussein Rashid
|21,964
|0.07%
|Lost
|}
See also
- Liberalism
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- List of liberal parties
- Liberal democracy