The National Democratic Congress (NDC), also known as the National Democratic Congress of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, is a

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and

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. It is the governing party in Grenada having won a majority in the 2022 general elections. The party is led by current prime minister

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as of October, 2021. The party was founded in 1987 by

George Brizan George Ignatius Brizan, CMG, CBE (31 October 1942 – 18 February 2012) was a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada for four months in 1995. He moved to the top post in February, upon the resignation of Nicholas Brathwai ...

and Francis Alexis, as a party opposed to the New National Party government that came to power in the 1984 elections after the

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. It won the 1990 elections, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p311 with Nicholas Brathwaite becoming Prime Minister. It lost power to the NNP in the 1995 elections, which were held shortly after Brathwaite's resignation. The NDC was thereafter in opposition for 13 years. It failed to win any seats in the 1999 elections, but only narrowly lost the 2003 elections, in which it won 45.6% of the popular vote and seven of the 15 seats. In the July 2008 general election, the NDC won 11 out of 15 seats, and party leader

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became Prime Minister. Despite a 40% vote share in the 2013 election, the party lost all its seats to the New National Party under

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, which obtained all 15 seats. The NDC was affiliated to the former Central American liberal organisation FELICA, the Federation of Liberal Parties of Central America and the Caribbean, also known as Federación de Partidos Liberales de Centroamérica y el Caribe. The party maintains close links with the other center-left political parties in the English-speaking Caribbean such as the Democratic Labour Party in

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List of leaders of the National Democratic Congress

Electoral history

House of Representatives elections

References

External links

Official website
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