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Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
has two traditional parties from the old colonial era: the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the
People's National Party The People's National Party (PNP) (PNP; ) is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Jamaica, political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by Norman Manley, Norman Washington Manley who served as party president unti ...
(PNP). The United Independents' Congress of Jamaica (UIC) became the first new (post colonial) registered political party on December 7, 2019. Other parties have cropped up and disintegrated in the past due mostly to a lack of funding and effective differentiation from the major parties. Since 2018, political parties are now required to be registered by the ECJ or Electoral Commission of Jamaica. This has eliminated all the other minor parties that have not been able to meet registration requirements.


Major parties


Minor parties


Defunct parties

* Agricultural Industrial Party * Christian Conscience Movement * Christian Democratic Party * Coloured Party – founded in the 1820s to campaign for full civil rights. * Communist Party of Jamaica * Convention Independent Party * Farmers' Federation * Farmers' Party * Federation of Citizen's Association * Imperial Ethiopian World Federation Incorporated Political Party *
Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse work ...
* Jamaica Alliance for National Unity * Jamaica Democratic Party * Jamaica Independent Movement * Jamaica Liberal Party * Jamaica Radical Workers Union * Jamaica Socialist Party * Jamaica United Front * Jamaica United Party – formerly the United West Indian Party * Jamaica We Party * Jerusalem Bread Foundation * National Labour Party * New Jamaica Alliance * People's Freedom Movement * People's Political Party – Jamaica's first party, founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey in 1929. * Progressive Labour Movement – merged with the People's Political Party soon after being founded in 1961. * Republican Party * United Party of Jamaica * United People's Party * Workers Party of Jamaica – defunct Marxist party


See also

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Politics of Jamaica Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those ...
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Elections in Jamaica The Parliament of Jamaica has two chambers: * The House of Representatives has 63 members, elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies. * The Senate has 21 appointed members: 13 chosen by the Prime Minister and 8 by the Leader of ...


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Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
Political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
Political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...