The Gambian People's Party (GPP) was a

political party 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 political ideology, ...

the Gambia The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the List of African countries by area, smallest country in continental Africa; it is surrounded by Senegal on all sides except for ...

. It was founded by

Assan Musa Camara Assan Musa Camara (also known as Andrew David Camara; 21 April 1923 – 15 September 2013) was a Gambian politician. He served as Vice President of the Gambia under president Dawda Jawara, almost continuously from 1972 to 1977,. And then again fr ...

in February 1986 and formally launched on 29 March 1986. GPP was a splinter group of the governing People's Progressive Party. The party got 15.5% of the votes in the 1987 parliamentary elections and 7.96% in the 1992 elections, but it never won a parliamentary seat. Camara contested as the presidential candidate of the party in 1987, and got 29,428 votes (14%). In the 1992 presidential election, he got 8% of the votes.Elections in The Gambia
/ref> The party was banned after the 1994 military coup, and its leading members barred from participating in politics.

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