List of political parties in Namibia

Namibia is a dominant-party state with the South-West Africa People's Organisation in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. In Namibian politics, ethnicity plays a significant role in party affiliation and voting behaviour. Some parties are dominated by single ethnic groups; SWAPO itself, its government, and administration, is pre-dominantly Ovambo.^[1]

Parties with parliamentary seats

Parties with seats in the National Assembly of Namibia after the 2024 elections:

Party[2]		Abbr.	Leader	Political position	Ideology	Council	Assembly
	South West Africa People’s Organisation Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie German: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation	SWAPO SWAVO	Vacant	Centre-left	Socialism with Namibian characteristics[3]	28 / 42	51 / 104
	Independent Patriots for Change	IPC	Panduleni Itula		Grassroots democracy	2 / 42	20 / 104
	Affirmative Repositioning	AR	Job Amupanda	Left-wing	Marxism-leninism Pan-africanism	0 / 42	7 / 104
	Popular Democratic Movement Afrikaans: Populêre Demokratiese Beweging	PDM	McHenry Venaani	Centre-right	Conservatism Economic liberalism	2 / 42	5 / 104
	Landless People's Movement	LPM	Bernadus Swartbooi	Centre-left to left-wing	Social democracy Progressivism Land reform Environmentalism	6 / 42	5 / 104
	United Democratic Front	UDF	Apius Auchab		Damara interests	2 / 42	1 / 104
	Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters	NEFF	Epafras Mukwiilongo	Far-left	Marxism–Leninism Pan-Africanism Anti-capitalism	0 / 42	1 / 104
	South West Africa National Union	SWANU	Tangeni Iiyambo	Left-wing	Democratic socialism Left-wing nationalism	0 / 42	1 / 104
	Republican Party German: Republikanische Partei	RP	Henk Mudge	Right-wing	Conservatism Christian democracy	0 / 42	1 / 104
	National Unity Democratic Organisation	NUDO	Esther Muinjangue	Centre-right	Herero interests	1 / 42	1 / 104
	All People's Party	APP	Ignatius Shixwameni	Centre-left	Social democracy	0 / 42	1 / 104
	National Democratic Party	NDP	Martin Lukato			0 / 42	1 / 104
	Body of Christ Party	BCP	Festus Thomas	Right-wing	Christian democracy	0 / 42	1 / 104

Unrepresented parties

The following parties contested the 2019 or 2024 parliamentary elections but did not gain a seat, in the order of votes obtained:^[2]

• Action Democratic Movement Party (ADM): took part in the 2024 Namibian general election and received 2,286 votes (0.21%). The interim party president is Vincent Kanyetu, who was previously secretary general of the All People's Party (APP) and before that of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA).^[4]
• Christian Democratic Voice (CDV)
• Congress of Democrats (CoD)
• National Empowerment Fighting Corruption (NEFC)
• National Patriotic Front (NPF)
• Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP)
• United People's Movement (UPM)
• Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP)

Parties of local relevance

The following parties did not contest the 2019 general elections but took part in the 2020 local authority election, and gained seats:^[5]

• Gobabis Residents' Association, 1 seat in Gobabis
• Karibib Ratepayers Association, 1 seat in Karibib
• Monitor Action Group, 1 seat in Outjo
• Okahandja Rate Payers Association, 1 seat in Okahandja
• Omaruru Community Development Association, 1 seat in Omaruru
• Rehoboth Independent Town Management Association, 1 seat in Rehoboth
• United People's Movement (UPM), 1 seat in Rehoboth
• Rundu Concerned Citizens Association, 1 seat in Rundu
• Rundu Urban Community Association, 1 seat in Rundu
• Swakopmund Residents Association, 2 seats in Swakopmund
• Joint Walvis Bay Residents Association, 1 seat in Walvis Bay

Defunct parties

National parties

• Communist Party of Namibia
• Democratic Action for Namas
• Democratic Party of Namibia (DPN)
• Namibia African People's Democratic Organisation
• Namibian Democratic Movement for Change
• National Progressive Party
• Riemvasmaak United Party
• United Nama Independence People's Party
• United Namib Independence Party
• United Namibia People's Party

Local parties

• Civic Association of Henties Bay

Banned parties

• United Democratic Party^[6]