List of political parties in Barbados

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This article lists political parties in Barbados.

Barbados 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. Occasionally various members of political parties in Barbados have used an option of crossing the floor.

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The parties

Major parties

	Abbr.	Leader	Political position	Ideology	Senators	Assembly members
Barbados Labour Party	BLP	Mia Mottley	Centre-left	Social democracy Republicanism	12 / 21	29 / 30
Democratic Labour Party	DLP	Ralph Thorne	Centre-left	Social democracy Republicanism	2 / 21	1 / 30
People’s Party for Democracy and Development	PdP	Joseph Atherley	Centre-left	Christian democracy Christian socialism	0 / 21	0 / 30

Others

People's Empowerment Party^[1] (PEP)
Clement Payne Movement (CPM)
Pan-Caribbean Congress (PCP)
Bajan Free Party (BFP)
Solutions Barbados (SB)
United Progressive Party (Barbados) (UPP)
People's Democratic Congress (Barbados) (PDC)
Kingdom Government of Barbados (KGB)
New Barbados Kingdom Alliance (NBKA)
Barbados Integrity Movement (BIM)
Barbados Sovereignty Party (BSP)
Alliance Party for Progress (APP)

Defunct

Barbados National Party (BNP)
National Democratic Party (NDP)
People's Political Alliance (PPA)
People's Progressive Movement (PPM)
Worker's Party of Barbados (WPB)
Barbados Electors Association (BEA)
West Indian National Congress Party (CP)
Citizens Action Partnership (CAP)
Progressive Conservative Party (PCP)
Coalition of United Parties (CUP)

Names in italics denote Electoral Alliances

References

^ "The Nation Newspaper | PEP: Power to the people". Archived from the original on March 13, 2006. Retrieved 2013-04-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

Government	Barbados Labour Party (29)
Opposition	Democratic Labour Party (1)
Other parties	Solutions Barbados People's Party for Democracy and Development- People's Democratic Congress People's Empowerment Party (Clement Payne Movement) United Progressive Party Bajan Free Party Pan-Caribbean Congress Kingdom Government of Barbados New Barbados Kingdom Alliance Barbados Integrity Movement Barbados Sovereignty Party

Electoral Alliances

Current	Alliance Party for Progress
Defunct	Coalition of United Parties

Defunct parties

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