List of political parties in the Philippines explained

List of political parties in the Philippines should not be confused with Party-list representatives.

There are many and diverse political parties in the Philippines. Most party membership consists primarily of political figures and leaders, with little or no grassroots membership.

The Philippines operates under a multi-party system, characterized by numerous political parties. Due to the absence of sustaining memberships and the necessity for coalition governments, parties often experience a rise-and-fall dynamic. There are three types of parties in the Philippines. These are: (a) major parties,^{[1] [2]} which typically correspond to traditional political parties; (b) minor parties or party-list organizations, which rely on the party-list system to win Congressional seats; and (c) regional or provincial parties, which correspond to region-wide or province-wide organizations, respectively.

National parties in office

Major parties

Party		Abbr.	President	Chairperson	Founded	Ideology	Int'l affiliation	Status	House seats	Senate seats
	Partido Federal ng Pilipinas Federal Party of the Philippines	PFP	Reynaldo Tamayo Jr.	Bongbong Marcos	2018	Federalism	none
	Lakas–Christian Muslim Democrats People Power–Christian Muslim Democrats	Lakas–CMD	Martin Romualdez	Bong Revilla	2008 (1991)		CDI
	Nationalist People's Coalition	NPC	Jack Duavit	Tito Sotto	1992	Social conservatism	none
	Nacionalista Party Nationalist Party	NP	Manny Villar	Cynthia Villar	1907	Conservatism^[5] ^[6]	none
	National Unity Party	NUP	Luis Raymund Villafuerte	Ronaldo Puno	2011	Social conservatism^[7]	none
	Liberal Party	LP	Edcel Lagman	Francis Pangilinan	1946	Liberalism^[8]	LI
	Partido Demokratiko Pilipino Philippine Democratic Party	PDP	Robinhood Padilla	Rodrigo Duterte	1983	Democratic socialism^[9] Social democracy^[10] ^[11] ^[12]	none

Other parties represented in Congress

Party		Abbr.	President	Chairperson	Founded	Ideology	Int'l affiliation	Status	House seats	Senate seats
	Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma Party for Democratic Reforms	PDR	Pantaleon Alvarez	Vacant	1998	Conservative liberalism	none
	United Nationalist Alliance	UNA	Jejomar Binay	Nancy Binay	2012	Paternalistic conservatism	none
	Aksyon Demokratiko Democratic Action	Aksyon	Isko Moreno	Ernesto Ramel Jr.	1997	Liberal democracy Progressivism	none
	Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino Fight of Democratic Filipinos	LDP	Bellaflor Angara	Sonny Angara	1988	Economic liberalism	CDI
	Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan Federalism of the Noble Blooded Association	PDDS	Greco Belgica	Eduardo Bringas	2018	Federalism	none
	Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines	CDP	Rufus Rodriguez	Lito Monico Lorenzana	2010	Christian democracy	none
	Akbayan Citizens' Action Party	Akbayan	Rafaela David	Gio Tingson	1998	Progressivism Social democracy	PA
	Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino Force of the Filipino Masses	PMP	Joseph Estrada	Vacant	1991	Populism	none

Party-lists represented in Congress

These parties won more than 2% of the vote. For the complete list, see 2022 Philippine House of Representatives election (party-list).

Party		Abbr.	Ideology/sector	House party-list seats
	Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist	ACT-CIS	Counterterrorism
	1-Rider Partylist Union of Motorists of the Philippines	Ang Buklod ng mga Motorista ng Pilipinas	Motorists
	Tingog Party List Voice of the East	TPL	Regionalism
	4Ps Party-list	Strengthen and Grow the Filipino Livelihood	Filipino nationalism
	AbonoFertilizer	Abono	Farmer's rights
	Alliance of Concerned Teachers	ACT Teachers	Education reform
	Agri-Agra na Reporma para sa Magsasaka ng Pilipinas Movement Agricultural and Agrarian Reform for Farmers in the Philippines Movement	AGRI	Land reform
	Anak Mindanao Child of Mindanao	AMIN	Mindanao nationalism
	Buhay Hayaan Yumabong Let Life Prosper	Buhay	Christian right
	Cooperative NATCCO Network Party	Coop-NATCCO	Cooperative sector
	GABRIELA Women's Party	GABRIELA	Marxist feminism
	Kabayan Compatriot	Kabayan	Filipino nationalism
	Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta Force of Hero Athletes	PBA	Athletes' interests
	Senior Citizens' Party	Senior Citizens	Senior citizens' rights	--->

Minor parties

These are parties that used to have members in Congress or parties with few or no seats in government.

Party		Abbr.	Leader	Ideology
		ABC	James Marty Lim
	Ang Kapatiran The Brotherhood or Alliance for the Common Good	KPTRAN	Reynaldo Pacheco
		BVNP		Voluntarism
	Bangon Pilipinas Rise Up Philippines	BP
	Bigkis Pinoy Movement Bind Filipinos Movement	BIGKIS	Amando Ocampo
		DPP
	Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino Society/Association of Democratic Filipinos	KDP	Carlos Enrique G. Valdes III	Neo-nationalism
	Katipunan ng Kamalayang Kayumanggi Society of Brown Consciousness	KTPNAN		Federalism
	Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino Society of the United Filipinos	KANP	Kerby Javier Salazar	Liberalism Youth empowerment
	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan New society Movement	KBL	Efren Rafanan Sr.	Conservatism
	Kilusan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino	KNP	TBA
	Laban para sa Kapayapaan, Katarungan at Kaunlaran Struggle for Peace, Progress and Justice	KKK	Christy Lim-Raymundo
	Ladlad Coming Out	LADLAD		LGBT interests
	Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas Philippine Democratic Socialist Party	PDSP
	Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 Philippine Communist Party	PKP-1930	Eduardo Landayan	Communism Marxism–Leninism
	Partido Lakas ng Masa Party of the Laboring Masses	PLM	Leody de Guzman	Socialism
		PRP
		WPP		Laboriousm
	Medical Cannabis Party	MEDCANN	Henrie Enaje	Cannabis rights
	Partido Pilipino sa Pagbabago Filipinos for Change Party	PPP	Leonardo Fernandez	Federalism
		PolPHIL	TBA	Progressivism Humanism Social liberalism
		PGRP	Felix Cantal	Green politics
		PROMDI	Mariano Osmeña	Devolution Energy independence
	Reform PH - People's Party	RP	James Layug	Reformism Economic liberalism
		SANLAKAS	Max Abalos	Progressivism

Local parties

Name	Abbr.	Location	Leader	Notes
Luzon
Makatizens United Party	MKTZNU			affiliated with United Nationalist Alliance
Move Makati			Romulo de Guzman
	MDP		Bayan Dela Cruz	affiliated with National Economic Protectionism Association
Kabalikat ng Bayan sa Kaunlaran	KABAKA		Amado Bagatsing
Philippine Christian Nationalist Party	PCNP		Andres Genito
Serbisyo sa Bayan Party	SBP			formerly affiliated with Hugpong ng Pagbabago
Retailers Party			Estelito Mendoza
Liping Kalookan				formerly Grand Kalookan Coalition
Katipunan ng Bagong Caloocan	KABACA		Gwendolyn Emnace
Kasangga ng Bayan, Tao, Kalikasan at Kaunlaran	KABATAK
	KDT
Caloocan Team for Action and Progress	CATAPAT		Bonifacio Alis
Partido Tapat			Edmundo de Borja	also known as Taguig-Pateros Action Team
	NVTEÑO			affiliated with Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and United Nationalist Alliance
Reform Caloocan Party			Russel Ramirez
United Citizens of Caloocan Party	UCCP
Partido Magdiwang				affiliated with Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino
Lingkod ng Mamamayan ng Valenzuela City	LINKOD
Kambilan Party			Dennis G. Pineda	affiliated with Lakas–CMD and PDP
Lingkod Bayan-Sulong Taguig Coalition	LINGKOD TAGUIG		Angelito Reyes
	AMM			affiliated with Lakas–CMD
	KKK			affiliated with Akbayan
Movement for Economic Transformation & Righteous Opportunities	METRO		Rodolfo John O. Teope
Samahang Kaagapay ng Agilang Pilipino	AGILA		Josef Maganduga
United Benguet Party	UBP
Bileg Ti La Union			Joaquin Ortega
Bileg Ti Ilocano	BILEG
Biskeg na Pangasinan Party	BISKEG		Oscar Lambino	affiliated with Lakas-CMD
Democratic Tabula Tua			Delfin Telan Ting	affiliated with Lakas-CMD
Buklod Capampangan			Estelito Mendoza
	BALANE		Tomas Joson	affiliated with Nationalist People's Coalition and PDP
Lingap Lugud Capampangan Party				affiliated with Lakas-CMD
Pinag-isang Lakas Tungo sa Pagbabago	PINATUBO		Philip Camara
Sama Sama Tarlac			Candido Guiam
Democratic Alliance	DA		Romeo Taruc
Partido del Pilar			Manuel G. Roxas	affiliated with Liberal Party
Nagkakaisang Partido ng mga Kapampangan			Zenaida Ducut
Unang Sigaw-Partido ng Pagbabago	USPP
Kalapian ng mga Kaibigan ng Kaunlaran-Bayan ng Hagonoy	LAPIANG K		Angel Cruz, Jr.
Kapanalig at Kambilan Ning Memalen Pampanga	KAMBILAN		Rosve Henson
Partido Malolenyo	PM		Carolina Mangawang
Sulong Zambales Party	SZP	Zambales	Hermogenes Ebdane (chairman) Jun Omar Ebdane (President)
	PAK, ABE		Edgardo Pamintuan (chairman) Alex Cauguiran (president)	Founded March 28, 2012.^[13]
Partido Balikatan ng Bataan	BALIKATAN		Enrique Garcia, Jr.
Forward with Vitality for Reforms-Sigaw ng Kabite	FVR-Sigaw		Franco Loyola
Quezon Nationalist Democratic Party	QNDP		Bienvenido Marquez, Jr.
Pangkat Laguna			Marito Mendoza
Partido Dimasalang			Teresita Lazaro	affiliated with Lakas-CMD
Partido Batangueño			Franklin Tabaquin, Jr.
Partido ng Masang Batangueno	PMB		Nicanor Briones
	UNIDO		Jose Laurel IV
One Batangas Movement	One Batangas		Vilma Santos-Recto	affiliated with Nacionalista Party
Partido Bagong San Pablo			Arsenio Escuderro, Jr.
People's Alliance Development of Romblon	PADER		Natalio Beltran, Jr.
People's Empowerment sa Lungsod Agham	PELA		Baby Armi L. Alvarez
	PPP		Jose Alvarez	affiliated with Hugpong ng Pagbabago
Sulong Palawan Party	SPP		Vincent Dennis Socrates
Mindoro Sandugo Para sa Kaunlaran	SANDUGO		Agustin Cusi
Bicol Saro			Ma. Corazon Imperial
Catanduanes Alliance for Reform and Democracy	CARD		Dexter Francisco
Alliance of Bicolnon Party	ABP-BICOLNON		Enrique Olonan
Ako Bicol Political Party	AKB		Elizalde Co
Visayas
	PANAGHIUSA		Jose Daluz III
			Alfredo Montelibano, Jr.	affiliated with Nacionalista Party
Kusog Han Eastern Samar			Jaime Opinion
People's Progressive Alliance for Peace and Good Government Towards Alleviation of Poverty and Social Advancement	Partido PAGASA		Rene Juaneza
Pusyon Pilipino			Casimiro Madarang, Jr.
Abante Anak Bisaya			Geraldo Carillo
	UNA		Alfredo Marañon, Jr.
	BAKUD
Alayon Alang sa Kalambu-an ng Kalinaw	ALAYON
Katig-buan Nortehanon			Emil Ong
Partido Pundok Biliranon			Danilo Parilla
Aton Tamdon Utod Negros-anon	ATUN		Rafael Coscolluela
Kugi Uswag Sugbo	KUSUG		Raymond Alvin Garcia
Ugyon				affiliated with Liberal Party
Timawa			Rona Anape-Ganzon
United Guardians Party	UGP		Clodualdo P. Dedicatoria
Economic Development and Social Advancement	EDSA		Melchor Cubillo
Democracy of the Independent Liberal Conservative Party	DILC		Vincent Frasco
Ugyon Kita Capiz	UK CAPIZ		Frenedil Castro	affiliated with United Nationalist Alliance
	1-CEBU
	BOPK			affiliated with Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino
	BARUG			affiliated with PDP
Mindanao
	HNP			affiliated with PDP
	Hugpong			affiliated with PDP
Christian Muslim Independent Party	CMIP		Tiburcio Pasquil
Aggrupation of Parties for Prosperity	APP			affiliated with Hugpong ng Pagbabago
	SARRO		Estelito Mendoza	affiliated with Lakas-CMD
Islamic Party of the Philippines	IPP		Ebrahim Abdurrahman
	OMPIA		Mahid Mutilan
Democratic Alliance of Mindanaoans for Good Government	DAMAGO		Fernando Toquillo
Muslim Reform Party	MRP		Kamar Mindalano
Ummah Party			Geraldo Carillo
Compostela Valley Rainbow Alliance	CORAL		Rogelio Sarmiento
Cotabato United People's Movement
Lanao People's Party			Casan Macabanding
	SIAP
	PS			affiliated with Lakas-CMD
	PCM
Citizens Call for Action Party of Zamboanga City	CCA		Susan de los Reyes
Adelante Zamboanga Party	AZAP		Jose Lobregat
Aksyon Magsasaka-Partido ng Tinig ng Masa	AKMA-PTM		Ali Sangki
Achievers with Integrity Movement	AIM		Adelbert Antonino
Padayon Pilipino	PADAYON		Vicene Emano	affiliated with Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino
Partido Prosperidad y Amor Para na Zamboanga	PAZ			affiliated with Liberal Party
People's Consultative (Mushawara) Party			Basher Caluato Edris
	BPP
	UBJP
	BaPa
Bangsamoro People's Party	BPP
	Al Ittahad-UKB
Salaam Party
	IPDP
Rayyat Development Party	RDP		Jose Lorena
Basilan Unity Party	BUP
Tawi-Tawi One Party	TOP

Not registered with the government

These are national parties that are not registered with the Commission on Elections:

Party	Abbr.	Leader	Ideology
Green Party of the Philippines	GPP-KALIKASAN MUNA	David D. D'Angelo	Green politics
MAKAKALIKASAN Nature Party Philippines	MAKAKALIKASAN	Orlando Ravanera
Philippine Libertarian Party	PHILIPA	Julius Apud (interim chairman)
Koalisyong Katoliko Kristiyano	KKK	Rizalito David
	CPP	vacant	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Marxista-Leninistang Partido ng Pilipinas Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines	MLPP	Caridad Magpantay
Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino – Pinagsanib Filipino Workers Party	PMP-Pinagsanib	Patricio Ramirez
Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagagawa – Pilipinas Revolutionary Workers' Party of the Philippines	RPM-P	Arturo Tabara Nilo dela Cruz

Historical parties/coalitions

Parties

• Allied Party
• Alyansa ng Pag-Asa
• Bawat Isa Mahalaga
• Citizens' Party
• Democrata Party
• Democratic Alliance
  • • Democratic Party Federalista Party Ganap Party
• Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino
• KALIBAPI
• Koalisyong Pambansa
• Labor Party
  • Lakas ng Bayan Lakas–CMD (1991)
• La Liga Filipina
• Lapiang Malaya
• Modernist Party
• Movement for Truth, Order and Righteousness
• National Socialist Party
• Nationalist Citizens' Party
• New Leaf Party
• Partido Bansang Marangal
• Partido Isang Bansa, Isang Diwa
• Partido ng Bansa
• Partido ng Bayan
• People's Progressive Democratic Party
• Philippine Falange
• Philippine Pro-Socialist Party
• Popular Front
• Progresista Party
• Progressive Party
• Reformist Party of the Philippines
• Republican Party
• Sakdal Party
• Social Democratic Party
• Social Justice Society
• Sovereign Citizen Party
• United Opposition

Major coalitions

width=10%	Election year !	width=45%	Administration !	width=45%	Opposition
Ferdinand Marcos (KBL) was the incumbent.
1986	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL)	United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO)
Marcos was declared winner but was overthrown at the People Power Revolution days later. His supporters were forced into opposition.
1987	United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO)	Grand Alliance for Democracy (GAD)
In 1992, UNIDO broke up and the Marcos loyalists coalesced with the other parties. Fidel V. Ramos (Lakas–NUCD) won the presidential election and his supporters became the administration coalition
1995	Lakas-Laban Coalition	Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC)
1998	Lakas-NUCD-UMDP	Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino (LAMMP)
In 2001, Joseph Estrada was overthrown at the 2001 EDSA Revolution; his supporters were forced into opposition.
2001	People Power Coalition (PPC)	Puwersa ng Masa (PnM)
2004	Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan (K-4)	Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP)
2007	Together Everybody Achieves More Unity (TEAM Unity)	Genuine Opposition (GO)
In 2010, the anti-Arroyo forces were split into different parties: Aquino defeated Estrada and eight others to lead the government under the Liberal Party.
2010	Liberal Party (LP)	Lakas Kampi CMD Nacionalista Party (NP) Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP)
In 2013, the main opposition party Lakas–CMD (formerly Lakas Kampi CMD) weakened following the arrest of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Thus, the Estrada-Binay group established the United Nationalist Alliance as the main opposition alliance.
2013	Team PNoy	United Nationalist Alliance (UNA)
In 2016, the incumbent's Koalisyon ng Daang Matuwid was defeated and became the opposition as Rodrigo Duterte (PDP–Laban) won the presidential election, establishing the Coalition for Change as the administration coalition.
2016	Coalition for Change	United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) Partido ng Galing at Puso (PGP) Koalisyon ng Daang Matuwid (KDM)
2019	Hugpong ng Pagbabago	Otso Diretso
In 2022, the incumbent's coalition was split into two, the Tuloy ang Pagbabago and MP3 Alliance, with the latter becoming part of the opposition. Hugpong was superseded by the UniTeam Alliance of Bongbong Marcos (PFP) who won the presidential election.
2022	UniTeam Alliance Tuloy ang Pagbabago	Team Robredo–Pangilinan (TRoPa) MP3 Alliance (MP3) Aksyon Laban ng Masa (LnM)

See also

• Politics of the Philippines
• List of political parties by country

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Comelec declares LP, UNA as dominant majority and minority parties - InterAksyon.com . November 5, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131110233051/http://www.interaksyon.com/article/57489/comelec-declares-lp-una-as-dominant-majority-and-minority-parties . November 10, 2013 . dead .
3. News: JDV quits Lakas, won't join Lakas-Kampi. abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak. Carmela Fonbuena. ABS-CBN News. July 24, 2018. en-US.
4. Web site: Major party-list groups join Lakas Philstar.com. philstar.com. July 24, 2018.
5. Bertrand, J. (2013). Political Change in Southeast Asia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
6. Berneo, N.; Yashar, D. (2016). Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World. New York: Cambridge University Press USA.
7. Web site: Who to Vote For? Get to Know the Political Parties in the Philippines.
8. News: Values Charter – Liberal Party of the Philippines. Liberal Party of the Philippines. July 24, 2018. en-US.
9. Web site: Philippines with Chinese characteristics? – The Manila Times Online. www.manilatimes.net. May 14, 2018. August 12, 2018.
10. Book: Raul P. De Guzman, Mila A. Reforma . Government and Politics of the Philippines . 1988 . 101 . Oxford University Press.
11. Book: Robert Dayley . Southeast Asia in the New International Era . the Philippine Democrat Party—People's Power (PDP-Laban), the current ruling party which claims social democracy as its ideology and advocates for federalism. . 2019 . Routledge.
12. Book: Jeffrey M. Riedinger . Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform . Organized in February 1982, the Pilipino Democratic Party (PDP) was the principal political vehicle for social democrats in the later years of the Marcos regime. . 2020 . 28 . Stanford University Press.
13. http://abetamu.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/comelec-oks-partido-abe-kapampangan/ COMELEC OKs Partido ABE Kapampangan