List of political parties in Dominica

This article lists political parties in Dominica.

Dominica 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.

The parties

Parliamentary parties

Party		Abbr.	Ideology	House of Assembly
	Dominica Labour Party	DLP	Social democracy	19 / 21

Other parties

	Abbr.	Ideology
Dominica Freedom Party	DFP	Conservatism
People's Party of Dominica	PPOD	Third Way Communitarianism
United Workers' Party	UWP	Centrism
Team Unity Dominica	TUD	Progressivism

Defunct parties

Socialist Workers Party (SWP)
Dominica Liberation Movement (DLM)
Dominica Progressive Party (DPP)
Dominica United People's Party (DUPP)
People's Democratic Movement (PDM)

References

Matthias Catón: "Dominica" in: Elections in the Americas. A Data Handbook, vol. 1, ed. by Dieter Nohlen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005: pp. 223–237 ISBN 0-19-928357-5

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