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.
Party | Abbr. | Leader | Political position | Ideology | Senators | Assembly members | ||
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bgcolor= | Barbados Labour Party | BLP | Mia Mottley | Centre-left | Social democracy Republicanism | |||
bgcolor= | Democratic Labour Party | DLP | Ralph Thorne | Centre-left | Social democracy Republicanism | |||
People’s Party for Democracy and Development | PdP | Joseph Atherley | Centre-left | Christian democracy Christian socialism | ||||
Names in italics denote Electoral Alliances