List of political parties in Guyana

This article lists political parties in Guyana. Guyana has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties. The main schism is not of ideology, but ethnicity; the People's Progressive Party is supported primarily by Indo-Guyanese people, while the People's National Congress is supported primarily by Afro-Guyanese people.^[1]

The political parties of Guyana

Parliamentary parties

Alliance		Party		Abbr.	Ideology	MPs
	People's Progressive Party			PPP/C	Social democracy Left-wing populism	33 / 65
	APNU–AFC		People's National Congress	PNCR	Social democracy Democratic socialism	21 / 65
			Alliance for Change	AFC	Progressivism Multiracialism	9 / 65
			Working People's Alliance	WPA	Democratic socialism	1 / 65
	LJP–ANUG–TNM		Liberty and Justice Party	LJP	Anti-Racial politics	1 / 65
			A New and United Guyana	ANUG	Consociationalism
			The New Movement	TNM

Non-parliamentary parties

Party		Abbr.	Leader	Ideology
	Change Guyana		Robert Badal	Economic liberalism Anti-corruption
	Citizenship Initiative	TCI	Rhonda Lam-Singh	Liberalism
	Guyana Action Party	GAP	Vincent Henry	Indigenism Socialism
	Justice for All Party	JFAP	Jaipaul Sharma
	National Democratic Front	NDF
	National Front Alliance		Keith Scott
	National Independent Party
	People's Republic Party	P.R.P.	Phyllis Jordan	Christian fundamentalism
	The United Force	TUF UF	Marissa Nadir	Social conservatism Economic liberalism
	United Republican Party	URP	Vishnu Bandhu

See also

• Politics of Guyana
• List of political parties by country

Footnotes

1. "Guyana voters head to polls to choose new government". BBC News. 29 November 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2011.