List of political parties in Barbados

This article lists political parties in Barbados.

Barbados 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. Occasionally various members of political parties in Barbados have used an option of crossing the floor.

The parties

Major parties

Party		Abbr.	Leader	Political position	Ideology	Senators	Assembly members
	Barbados Labour Party	BLP	Mia Mottley	Centre-left	Social democracy Republicanism	12 / 21	29 / 30
	Democratic Labour Party	DLP	Ralph Thorne	Centre-left	Social democracy Republicanism	2 / 21	1 / 30
	People’s Party for Democracy and Development	PdP	Joseph Atherley	Centre-left	Christian democracy Christian socialism	0 / 21	0 / 30

Others

• Alliance Party for Progress (APP)
• Bajan Free Party (BFP)
• Barbados Sovereignty Party (BSP)
• Clement Payne Movement (CPM)
• Conservative Barbados Leadership Party (CBLP)
• Friends of Democracy Party (FDP)
• Kingdom Government of Barbados (KGB)
• New National Party (NNP) ^[1]
• New Barbados Kingdom Alliance (NBKA)
• Pan-Caribbean Congress (PCP)
• People's Democratic Congress (Barbados) (PDC)
• People's Empowerment Party^[2] (PEP)
• Solutions Barbados (SB)
• United Progressive Party (Barbados) (UPP)

Defunct

• Barbados Integrity Movement (BIM)
• Barbados National Party (BNP)
• National Democratic Party (NDP)
• People's Political Alliance (PPA)
• People's Progressive Movement (PPM)
• Workers Party of Barbados (WPB)
• Barbados Electors Association (BEA)
• West Indian National Congress Party (CP)
• Citizens Action Partnership (CAP)
• Progressive Conservative Party (PCP)
• Coalition of United Parties (CUP)

Names in italics denote Electoral Alliances