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This article lists political parties in Bermuda.

Bermuda 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. From 1968 — Bermuda's first party-based election — to 1998, the United Bermuda Party (UBP) controlled Parliament. In 1998 it was supplanted by the slightly older Progressive Labour Party (PLP). A third party, the Bermuda Democratic Party, contested the 1968 election but failed to win any seats and collapsed soon after, eventually to be replaced by the now-defunct National Liberal Party. Several candidates have run as independents, to varying success, or have formed temporary, one-man parties such as the Gombey Liberation Party (or, in its later days, the National Liberal Party).

The parties

• Progressive Labour Party: black empowerment party, formed 1963
• United Bermuda Party: multiracial party, formed 1965
• National Liberal Party: defunct
• Bermuda Democratic Party: 1967 to 1970
• Gombey Liberation Party: defunct, one-man grass roots movement
• Bermuda Democratic Alliance: Political movement founded by Alex and Graeme Outerbridge in 2006

Listed in order of their creation.

See also

• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals

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