Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for electoral success of smaller parties.
Parties holding office
edit| Party | Founded | Position | Ideology | Leader
(since) |
Slogan and Manifesto | House of Assembly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity Labour Party (ULP) | 1994[1] | Centre-left to left-wing | Democratic socialism Agrarian socialism Republicanism |
Ralph Gonsalves (December 1998)[2] |
"Lifting SVG higher."[3] | 9 / 15
| |
| New Democratic Party (NDP) | 1975[4] | Centre-right | Conservatism Pro-Commonwealth |
Godwin Friday (November 2016)[5] |
"Let's get SVG working."[6] | 6 / 15
| |
Other parties
edit| Name | Founded | Position | Ideology | Leader
(since) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Green Party | 2005[7] | Left-wing | Green | Ivan O'Neal | |
| United Progressive Party (UPP) | 2020 | Centre to centre-left[8] | Progressivism | Mark J.N Doyle | |
Historical parties
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Caribbean Elections | St. Vincent and the Grenadines General Elections 2010". Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
- ^ "Dr. Hon. Ralph Gonsalves". Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Manifesto". Unity Labour Party. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- ^ "Caribbean Elections | St. Vincent and the Grenadines General Elections 2010". Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
- ^ Haynes, Abigail (28 November 2016). "NDP's New President". NBC SVG.
- ^ "Our Manifesto". NDP SVG. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- ^ "Caribbean Elections | St. Vincent and the Grenadines General Elections 2010". Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ "The United Progressive Party | United Progressive Party". uppstvincent.com.
- ^ "Caribbean Elections | St. Vincent and the Grenadines General Elections 2010". Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ "St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Democratic Republican Party (DRP)," Archived 2016-11-12 at the Wayback Machine Election Centre 2015, Caribbean Elections, www.caribbeanelections.com/