This article lists political parties in Liberia.

Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ...

has a

multi-party system In political science, a multi-party system is a political system where more than two meaningfully-distinct political parties regularly run for office and win elections. Multi-party systems tend to be more common in countries using proportional ...

with numerous

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, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form

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s. Membership in parties tends to be fluid, as the party leader at the time holds significant influence over the ideology the party follows. As such, switching parties is more common than in other countries.

Represented parties

Unrepresented parties

* All Liberia Coalition Party * Grassroots Development Movement * Liberia National Union * Liberia Transformation Party * Liberian People's Party * Rainbow Alliance **

Democratic Justice Party The Democratic Justice Party (DJP; ) was the ruling party of South Korea from 1981 to 1990. History Chun Doo-hwan had become the country's de facto leader after leading a military coup in December 1979, and was elected president in his own r ...

True Whig Party The True Whig Party (TWP), also known as the Liberian Whig Party (LWP), is the oldest political party in Liberia and Africa as a whole. Founded in 1869 by primarily darker-skinned Americo-Liberians in rural areas, its historic rival was the Re ...

** Victory for Change * Union of Liberian Democrats

Historical parties

* Free Democratic Party *

Freedom Alliance Party of Liberia The Freedom Alliance Party of Liberia (FAPL) was a political party in Liberia which fielded candidates in the 2005 and 2011elections. FAPL candidate Margaret Tor-Thompson won 0.9% of the vote in the first round of the 2005 presidential poll. Th ...

* Labor Party of Liberia * Liberia Destiny Party * Liberia Education and Development Party * Liberia Equal Rights Party * Liberia Unification Party *

Liberian Action Party The Liberian Action Party (LAP) was a political party in Liberia. In the country's 1985 elections, LAP candidate Jackson Doe was the leading challenger to incumbent Head of State Samuel Doe. Official results showed that Samuel received a narro ...

* Movement for Justice in Africa * National Democratic Party of Liberia * National Party of Liberia * National Reformation Party * National Union for Democratic Progress * National Vision Party of Liberia * New Deal Movement * Progressive Alliance of Liberia * Progressive Democratic Party * Republican Party * Reformed United Liberia Party

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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 ...

Represented parties

Unrepresented parties

Historical parties

See also

References