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This article lists political parties in People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Since the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1991, Bangladesh has a fading two-party system, which means that two political parties dominate the general elections centrist Awami League (AL), and centre-right, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of another party.

Although the AL and BNP dominated Bangladeshi politics for a long time, the two are currently leading coalitions of like-minded parties, with the AL leading the left-of-centre parties and the BNP rallying the right-of-centre parties.

A party is recognised as a registered party only if it fulfils one of the conditions listed below:

1. A party needs to secure at least one seat with its electoral symbol in two previous parliamentary elections.
2. Securing of five percent of total votes cast in the constituencies in which its candidates took part in any of the aforesaid parliamentary elections.
3. It needs to set up a functional central office, by whatever name it may be called with a central committee, having offices at least in one-third administrative districts, and offices at least in 100 upazilas or metropolitan thanas. And the party must have a minimum 200 voters as its members in each upazila.

Parties in the parliament prior to dissolution

These were all of the political parties that held at least one seat in the Jatiya Sangsad. The 12th Jatiya Sangsad was dissolved on 6 August 2024. This is the state prior to the dissolution.

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Symbol or flag		Name	Founded	Ideology	Leader	MPs	Political position	Affiliation	Local government
									Municipalities	Cities	Villages
		Bangladesh Awami League বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ Bangladesh People's League	1949		Sheikh Hasina	271 / 350	Centre-left to centre	GA	136 / 330	10 / 12	2,187 / 4,562
		Jatiya Party (Ershad) জাতীয় পার্টি National Party (Ershad)	1986	Bangladeshi nationalism Conservatism	GM Quader	13 / 350	Right-wing		1 / 330	1 / 12	16 / 4,562
		Workers Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি	1980	Communism Marxism–Leninism	Rashed Khan Menon	1 / 350	Far-left	GA	0 / 330	0 / 12	2 / 4,562
		Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal জাতীয় সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল National Socialist Party	1972	Socialism	Hasanul Haq Inu	1 / 350	Left-wing	GA	1 / 330	0 / 12	2 / 4,562
		Bangladesh Kalyan Party বাংলাদেশ কল্যাণ পার্টি Bangladesh Welfare Party	2007	Welfarism Bangladeshi nationalism Islamic democracy	Syed Muhammad Ibrahim	1 / 350	Radical centre		0 / 330	0 / 12	0 / 4,562
		Ganatantri Party গণতন্ত্রী পার্টি Democratic Party	1990	Socialism	Arosh Ali	1 / 350	Left-wing		0 / 330	0 / 12	0 / 4,562
		Independents স্বতন্ত্র				62 / 350			0 / 330	1 / 12	1,562 / 4,562

Alliances

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Grand Alliance

The Grand Alliance ({Bengali: মহাজোট) is an alliance of political parties in Bangladesh that was formed in 2008. It consist of the Awami League, Jatiya Party (Ershad), Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, Workers Party, Liberal Democratic Party, Jatiya Party (Manju), Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, Ganatantri Dol, Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist) (Barua) and Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh.

The Liberal Democratic Party left the Grand Alliance before the election and contested independently. It joined the 18 Party Alliance in 2012.

Left Democratic Alliance

The Left Democratic Alliance is an alliance of eight leftist political parties including Communist Party of Bangladesh, Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh, Revolutionary Communist League of Bangladesh, Ganatantrik Biplobi Party, Bam Gonotantrik Andolon and Ganosanhati Andolan.

Major parties

Since 1991, due to the two-party system, two major parties, Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party constantly dominate the politics and form government.

Awami League

Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was founded on 1 September 1978 by President Ziaur Rahman, politician and physician A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, human rights activist and lawyer Moudud Ahmed and leftist politician Mashiur Rahman as the key people. BNP has won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two presidential elections, in 1978 and 1981 respectively. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country with 116 seats in the seventh national election of 1996. The party does not have any representation in the parliament after its boycott of the national election of 2014 which the party had termed a scandalous farce and was marked by a very low turnout.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

Registered parties

These are all the parties that are currently registered under Election Commission.

Regional parties

Outlawed parties

Unregistered parties

• Communist Movement of Bangladesh
• Jatiya Ganotantrik Party

See also

• Politics of Bangladesh
• List of political parties by country

Notes

1. The Awami League has been accused of far-right authoritarianism since 2021.
2. The Awami League has been accused of far-right authoritarianism since 2021.

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Coalitions	Grand Alliance Left Democratic Alliance Ganatantra Manch
Major parties	Awami League Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Minor parties	Amar Bangladesh Party Bangladesh National Awami Party Bangladesh Freedom Party Bangladesh Islami Front Bangladesh Jatiya Party Bangladesh Kalyan Party Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan Bangladesh Muslim League Bangladesh National Awami Party Bangladesh Nationalist Front Bangladesh Tarikat Federation Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Communist Party of Bangladesh Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Barua) Gano Azadi League Gano Forum Ganotantry Party Grassroots BNP Islami Andolan Bangladesh Islamic Front Bangladesh Islami Oikya Jote Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh Jatiya Ganotantrik Party Jatiya Party (Ershad) Jatiya Party (Manju) Jatiya Party (Zafar) Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Rab) Krishak Sramik Janata League Liberal Democratic Party Progressive Democratic Party Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh Socialist Party of Bangladesh Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) Workers Party of Bangladesh Gono Odhikar Parishad Ganosanhati Andolan
Regional parties	Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti United People's Democratic Front Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (MN Larma) United People's Democratic Front (Democratic)
Unrecognized parties	Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Jatiya Ganatantrik Party Kuki-Chin National Front
Defunct parties	Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League Bangladesh National Congress Nagorik Shakti
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