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 – main opposition party
National Democratic Movement – minor conservative party
People's National Party – ruling democratic socialist 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