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political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...

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. Bermuda has a

three-party system In political science, a multi-party system is a political system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national elections, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in c ...

, which means that there are three political parties: the Progressive Labour Party (PLP), the

One Bermuda Alliance The One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) is one of two political parties in Bermuda with elected members of the Bermuda's legislative assembly. It was created in May 2011 by the merger of most members of Bermuda's two non-Labour parties, the United Bermuda ...

(OBA) and the

Free Democratic Movement The Free Democratic Movement (FDM) is the newest of the three political parties in Bermuda. It was founded by former Progressive Labour Party leader Marc Bean in September 2020 to contest the 2020 Bermudian general election on October 1, 2020 ...

. 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 PLP. Most UBP members merged with a breakaway party called the

Bermuda Democratic Alliance The Bermuda Democratic Alliance (BDA) was a political party in Bermuda which lasted from its foundation in November 2009 until its merger into the One Bermuda Alliance in May 2011. History The BDA was founded on 5 November 2009, by six defecti ...

in 2011 to form the OBA. The PLP and OBA currently hold all of the seats in the House of Assembly and were the only two parties with offices and organizations before September 1, 2020. Another 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. In addition, 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

Parties Represented in the Legislature

Other Parties

: formed on 1 September 2020, it ran as a party in the election of 1 October 2020 but won no seats.

Historical parties

United Bermuda Party The United Bermuda Party (UBP) was a political party in Bermuda, which represented itself as centrist party with a moderate social and fiscal agenda. The party held power in Bermuda's House of Assembly continuously from 1968 to 1998, the 47-year ...

: multiracial party, formed 1964, dissolved in 2011 after being replaced by the

as the official opposition party * National Liberal Party: defunct * Bermuda Democratic Party: 1967 to 1970 * Gombey Liberation Party: defunct, one-man grass roots movement *

: Political movement founded by seven concerned Bermudians, merging with the One Bermuda Alliance in 2011

The parties

Parties Represented in the Legislature

Other Parties

Historical parties

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