List of political parties in Zimbabwe
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This article lists political parties
in Zimbabwe
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Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
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Major parties
- Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
- Movement for Democratic Change – TsvangiraiMovement for Democratic Change – TsvangiraiThe Movement for Democratic Change Zimbabwe is a political party and the largest party in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe. It is the main formation formed from the split of the original Movement for Democratic Change in 2005.-Foundation:...
(MDC-T) - Movement for Democratic Change – MutambaraMovement for Democratic Change – MutambaraThe Movement for Democratic Change — Mutambara is a Zimbabwean political party led by Welshman Ncube.-Foundation:The Movement for Democratic Change was founded in 1999 as an opposition party to the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front party led by President Robert Mugabe...
(MDC) - Zimbabwe African People's UnionZimbabwe African People's UnionThe Zimbabwe African People's Union was a militant organization and political party that fought for the national liberation of Zimbabwe from its founding in 1961 until it merged with the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front in December 1987....
(ZAPU) - revived - Zimbabwe African People's Union – Federal Party (ZAPU-FP)
Minor parties
- International Socialist OrganisationInternational Socialist Organization (Zimbabwe)The International Socialist Organisation is a Trotskyist organisation in Zimbabwe. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency led by the British Socialist Workers Party...
- National Alliance for Good GovernanceNational Alliance for Good GovernanceThe National Alliance for Good Governance is a political party in Zimbabwe.Its candidate, Shaka Maya, won 0.5% at the presidential elections of 9-11 March 2002....
- Patriotic Union of MaNdebelelandPatriotic Union of MaNdebelelandThe Patriotic Union of MaNedebeleland is a minor Zimbabwean political party. It was launched in Bulawayo in February, 2006 by ex-ZANU PF politician Leonard Nkala. It seeks to divide Matabeleland and the Midlands into eight regions and devolve legislative and administrative power to those regions...
- United People's PartyUnited People's Party (Zimbabwe)The United People's Party is a new political party in Zimbabwe. It was formed in 2006 by the former ZANU-PF provincial chairman of Masvingo and ZANU-PF member of Central Committee, Dr Daniel Shumba. Party candidates ran for the first time in the by-elections of Chiredzi South and Zaka East in...
- Zimbabwe African National Union - NdongaZimbabwe African National Union - NdongaZimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga is a small political party in Zimbabwe.The Zimbabwe African National Union was a political party during the struggle for Rhodesia's independence, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union...
- Zimbabwe African People's Union - Federal PartyZimbabwe African People's Union - Federal PartyThe Zimbabwe African People's Union - Federal Party is a minor Zimbabwean political party, based in Matabeleland. ZAPU-FP split from Agrippa Madlela's ZAPU party, purportedly a revival of those members of ZAPU who had rejected the 1987 merger with ZANU-PF in January 2002, following ZAPU's...
- Zimbabwe People's Democratic PartyZimbabwe People's Democratic PartyThe Zimbabwe People's Democratic Party is a political party in Zimbabwe.After the last legislative elections, March 31, 2005, the party remained without parliamentary representation....
- Zimbabwe Youth in AllianceZimbabwe Youth in AllianceThe Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance is a political party in Zimbabwe.After the last legislative elections, 31 March 2005, the party remained without parliamentary representation....
- Zimbabwean Democrat
- Zimbabwe Organised Open Political Party (ZOOPP)
Defunct parties
- Conservative Alliance of ZimbabweConservative Alliance of ZimbabweThe Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe was the final incarnation of a party formerly called the Republican Front and prior to that the Rhodesian Front...
- formerly the governing party, the Rhodesian FrontRhodesian FrontThe Rhodesian Front was a political party in Southern Rhodesia when the country was under white minority rule. Led first by Winston Field, and, from 1964, by Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front was the successor to the Dominion Party, which was the main opposition party in Southern Rhodesia during the... - Forum PartyForum PartyThe Forum Party of Zimbabwe was a conservative political party in Zimbabwe.The Forum party was formed in March 1993 and was led by a former Zimbabwean Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena...
- Patriotic FrontPatriotic Front (Zimbabwe)The Patriotic Front in Zimbabwe was a coalition of two communist parties: the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union which had worked together to fight against white minority rule in Rhodesia....
- United PartyUnited Federal PartyThe United Federal Party, previously known as the United Party and the United Rhodesia Party, was one of Southern Rhodesia's most successful political parties, and governed the country for over 30 years...
- United National Federal PartyUnited National Federal PartyUnited National Federal Party was a political party in Zimbabwe, formed in November 1978 by Chief Kayisa Ndiweni, who had been a leading figure in the Zimbabwe United People's Organisation. UNFP contested the 1979 election and won 9 seats, mostly in the Matabeleland provinces. It failed to win any...
- Rhodesian Action PartyRhodesian Action PartyThe Rhodesian Action Party was a political party in Rhodesia formed in 1977 by a group of Rhodesian Front MPs who were dissatisfied by the leadership of Ian Smith and his attempts to negotiate an 'internal settlement' with African nationalists...
- Zimbabwe African National UnionZimbabwe African National UnionThe Zimbabwe African National Union was a militant organization that fought against the standing government in Rhodesia, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union...
(ZANU) - Zimbabwe Unity MovementZimbabwe Unity MovementThe Zimbabwe Unity Movement, was a short lived political movement in Zimbabwe. It served as a successor and link to the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe...
(ZUM) - Zimbabwe United People's OrganisationZimbabwe United People's OrganisationZimbabwe United People's Organisation was a political party in Zimbabwe, formed in December 1976 by Chief Jeremiah Chirau, an ex-minister in the Rhodesian Front government. ZUPO contested the 1979 election but failed to win a seat. It was disbanded before the 1980 election.The organisation's only...
(ZUPO)
See also
- Politics of ZimbabwePolitics of ZimbabwePolitics of Zimbabwe takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic, whereby the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government...
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