List of political parties in Kenya
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This article lists political parties in Kenya.
Political culture
Kenya's system is one with characteristics comparable with a two-party system, since two dominant political parties c.q. coalitions have dominated since the last general elections in 2007. However, it has been a multi-party system since 1992 and one of the ruling coalitions consists of several parties. Kenya had over 160 registered political parties as of November 2007,[1]
Following the implementation of several Political Parties Acts starting with the 31 December 2008 act, the number of political parties has been coming down considerably since.[2][3][4] With the lapseing of the registration period set out in the most recent political parties act on 30 April 2012, twenty-four political parties had gained registration certificates while 22 others had applied for registration.[5][6]
The parties
Parties with Registration Certificates[7]
- Agano Party (AP)
- Alliance for Real Change
- Alliance Party of Kenya (APK)
- Chama Cha Mwananchi (CCM)
- Chama Cha Uzalendo (CCU)
- Conservative Party (CP)
- Democratic Party of Kenya (DP)
- Farmers Party (FP)
- Federal Party of Kenya (MDM)
- Ford-People (FORD-P)
- Forum For Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (FORD-KENYA)
- Grand National Union (GNU)
- Jubilee Party (JP)
- Kenya African Democratic Union-Asili (KADU-ASIL)
- Kenya African National Union (KANU)
- Kenya National Congress (KNC)
- Kenya Social Congress (KSC)
Labour Party of Kenya (LPK)
- Maendeleo Democratic Party (MDP)
- Mazingira Green Party of Kenya (MGPK)
- Mkenya Solidarity Movement (MSM)
- Muungano Development Movement Party of Kenya (MP)
- Mwangaza Party (MP)
- Mzalendo Saba Saba Party (MSS)
- NARC-Kenya (NARC-K)
- National Agenda Party of Kenya (NAPK)
- National Democratic Movement (NDM)
- National Labour Party (NLP)
- National Party of Kenya (FPK)
- National Rainbow Coalition (NARC)
- The National Vision Party (NVP)
- New Democrats (ND)
- New Ford Kenya (NFK)
- Nuru Party
- Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)
- Party of Action (POA)
- Party of Democratic Unity (PDU)
- Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya (PICK)
- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
- Peoples Party of Kenya (PPK)
- Platinum Centralizer and Unionist Party of Kenya (PlaCenta Party of Kenya)
- Progressive Party of Kenya (PPK)
- Restore and Build Kenya (RBK)
- Saba Saba Asili (77)
- Safina Party (SAFINA)
- Shirikisho Party of Kenya (SPK)
- Sisi Kwa Sisi Party (SSP)
- Social Democratic Party of Kenya (SDP)
- The Independent Party (TIP)
- The Labour Party of Kenya (LPK)
- The National Alliance (TNA)
- United Democratic Forum Party (UDFP)
- United Democratic Movement (UDM)
- United Republican Party (URP)
- UNION OF KENYA CIVIL SERVANTS
- Unity Party of Kenya (UPK)
- Wiper Democratic Movement- Kenya (WDM-K)
Parties awaiting Certificates
- Party of Hope
- The Democratic Union for Change(D.U.C)
- National Alliance of Kenya
- Maendeleo Party[8]
- Thirdway Alliance Party of Kenya
- Kenya Diaspora Pro-Democracy Movement (KDPM)
Historic
- Thirdway Alliance Party of Kenya
- Kenya Diaspora Pro-Democracy Movement (KDPM)
- Kenya African Democratic Union
- Kenya People's Union
- Liberal Democratic Party
See also
References
- ↑ Electoral Commission of Kenya, 17 November 2007: List of registered political parties
- ↑ "30 Parties Meet Deadline for New Law"
- ↑ "Unregistered Political Parties Handed A Lifeline"
- ↑ Registered Political Parties According To The IEBC Website Archived 11 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ http://www.parliament.go.ke/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=1310&Itemid=[] THE POLITICAL PARTIES BILL, 2011
- ↑ Eight political parties fail to beat registration deadline http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/InsidePage.php?id=2000057376&cid=4&
- ↑ Registered Political Parties Archived 13 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑
- Thirdway Alliance Party of Kenya
- Kenya Diaspora Pro-Democracy Movement (KDPM)