Fourth Republic (1999-present)

• Advanced Congress of Democrats
  Advanced Congress of Democrats
  The Advanced Congress of Democrats was an opposition political party in Nigeria, created and first registered in March 2006. In September 2006, in merged into the newly formed Action Congress...
  
   (ACD)
• Action Congress of Nigeria
  Action Congress
  The Action Congress of Nigeria , formerly known as Action Congress , is a classical liberal Nigerian political party formed via the merger of the Alliance for Democracy, the Justice Party, the Advance Congress of Democrats, and several other minor political parties in September 2006. The party...
  
   (ACN)
• Alliance for Democracy
  Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria)
  The Alliance for Democracy was a progressive opposition political party in Nigeria. It was formed on September 9th 1998. At the 2003 legislative elections, 12 April 2003, the party won 8.8 % of the popular vote and 34 out of 360 seats in the Nigerian House of Representatives and six out of...
  
   (AD)
• African Democratic Congress (ADC)
• All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP)
• All Progressives Grand Alliance
  All Progressives Grand Alliance
  The All Progressives Grand Alliance is a political party in Nigeria. At the last legislative elections, 12 April 2003, the party won 1.4 % of popular votes and 2 of 360 seats in the House of Representatives of Nigeria and no seats in the Senate...
  
   (APGA)
• All People's Party (APP)
• African Renaissance Party [ARP]
• Conscience People's Congress [CPC]
• Communist Party of Nigeria
  Communist Party of Nigeria
  The Communist Party of Nigeria was a communist party in Nigeria. It was founded in November 1960 in Kano, largely by cadres of the Nigerian Youth Congress. Initially the party drew political inspiration from the Communist Party of Great Britain...
  
   (CPN)
• Congress for Progressive Change
  Congress for Progressive Change
  The Congress for Progressive Change is a political party founded in Nigeria in 2009 in preparation for the April 2011 elections.It is the 63rd political party to be founded in the country and also the last political party to be registered in Nigeria....
  
   (CPC)
• Democratic Alternative
  Democratic Alternative (Nigeria)
  Democratic Alternative is a Nigerian opposition political party.On June 3 and 4, 1994, about 200 Nigerians critical of the military politicians and collaborators met in Benin City to examine the political impasse and decide on a political plan for the country and the peoples...
  
   (DA)
• Democratic People's Party (Nigeria)
  Democratic People's Party (Nigeria)
  The Democratic People's Party is a Nigerian political party founded in 2006 by disgruntled members of the All Nigeria Peoples Party.In the 21 April 2007 presidential elections, the winner was Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of the People's Democratic Party with 24,638,063 votes...
  
   (DPP)
• Democratic Socialist Movement
  Democratic Socialist Movement (Nigeria)
  The Democratic Socialist Movement is the Nigerian section of the Committee for a Workers' International . It publishes a bi-monthly newspaper, Socialist Democracy.-Foundation:...
  
   (DSM)
• Fresh Democratic Party
  Fresh Democratic Party
  The Fresh Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Nigeria. FRESH is an acronym, Faith, Responsibility, Equality, Security and Hope. The founder and presidential aspirant is Reverend Chris Okotie...
  
   (FDP)
• Labour Party
  Labour Party (Nigeria)
  The Labour Party is a socialist/social democratic political party in Nigeria. In the 21 April 2007 Nigerian National Assembly election, the party won 1 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives and no seats in the Senate. The Party's flagbearer in Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, emerged the...
  
   [LP]
• Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN)
• National Conscience Party (NCP)
• New Democrats (ND)
• National Democratic Party
  National Democratic Party (Nigeria)
  The National Democratic Party is a progressive political party in Nigeria which was founded on 23 July 2001.At the last legislative elections, 12 April 2003, the party won 1.9 % of popular votes and 1 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives and no seats in the Senate....
  
   (NDP)
• People's Democratic Party
  People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)
  The People's Democratic Party is a political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the right wing of the political spectrum. It has won every single Presidential elections since 1999, namely: 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011, and is the dominant party in the Fourth Republic.-History:In...
  
   (PDP)
• Progressive Peoples Alliance
  Progressive Peoples Alliance
  The Progressive Peoples Alliance is a political party in Nigeria. Notable members of the party include Orji Uzor Kalu.The party won gubernatorial elections in 2003 and 2007 in Abia State. The party also won the governorship election in 2007 in Imo State...
  
   (PPA)
• People Progressive Party (PPP)
• People's Redemption Party
  People's Redemption Party
  The People's Redemption Party was a political party in Nigeria. Often considered the Second Republic incarnation of the Northern Elements Progressive Union, the party was created by the late Mallam Aminu Kano. The PRP was highly regarded as a progressive left of center political party. Some well...
  
   (PRP)
• People's Salvation Party
  People's Salvation Party
  The People's Salvation Party is a political party in Nigeria without parliamentary representation....
  
   (PSP)
• Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP)
• People's Democratic Party
  People's Democratic Party
  People's Democratic Party could refer to:* People's Democratic Party * Eelam People's Democratic Party * Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party * People's Democratic Party * People's Democratic Party...
  
    (PDP)
• Socialist Workers League (SWL)
• United Nigeria People's Party
  United Nigeria People's Party
  The United Nigeria People's Party is a political party in Nigeria.At the 12 April 2003 legislative elections the party won 2.8 % of popular votes, 2 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives of Nigeria, and no seats in the Senate....
  
   (UNPP)
• Paulotef Nigeria Party (PNP)
• Godwin Sunday People Party (GSPP)
• Olukemi Bam' Nigeria People Party  (OBNPP)

Political parties (1996-1998)

• National Democratic Coalition (NADECO)
• Committee for National Consensus (CNC)
• Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN)
• Grassroots Democratic Movement
  Grassroots Democratic Movement
  The Grassroots Democratic Movement was a Nigerian political party that was one of the five state-sanctioned political parties allowed by the government of General Sani Abacha to participate in state assembly elections held in December 1997, and in parliamentary elections held in April 1998.The...
  
   (GDM)
• National Centre Party of Nigeria (NCPN)
• United Nigeria Congress Party
  United Nigeria Congress Party
  The United Nigeria Congress Party was a Nigerian political party that was one of the five state-sanctioned political parties allowed by the government of General Sani Abacha to participate in state assembly elections held in December 1997, in which it won many elections, and in parliamentary...
  
   (UNCP)
• Justice Party (JP)

Abortive Third Republic

• National Republican Convention
  National Republican Convention
  The National Republican Convention was a Nigerian political party established by the government of General Ibrahim Babangida and ultimately disbanded by the incoming military regime of General Sani Abacha in 1993.-Alignment:...
  
   (NRC)
• Social Democratic Party
  Social Democratic Party (Nigeria)
  The Social Democratic Party of Nigeria, popularly known as SDP, was a political party created to encompass the ideals of a center left political organization. It was one of the products of a democracy project by former President Ibrahim Babangida to have two detribalized political parties, one a...
  
   (SDP)

Second Republic (1979-1983)

• Greater Nigerian People's Party
  Greater Nigerian People's Party
  The Great Nigeria People's Party was one of the six major political parties that fielded candidates for elections in the Nigerian Second Republic. The party was formed by a splinter group from the Nigerian People's Party, the group was led by Waziri Ibrahim, a politician and businessman from Borno....
  
   (GNPP)
• National Party of Nigeria
  National Party of Nigeria
  The National Party of Nigeria was the dominant political party in Nigeria during the Second Republic .-Formation:The party's beginning could be traced to private and sometimes secret meetings among key Northern Nigerian leaders after the proscription of political parties in 1966 by the military...
  
   (NPN)
• Nigeria Advance Party
  Nigeria Advance Party
  The Nigeria Advance Party is a progressive political party headed by a radical Lagos lawyer, Tunji Braithwaite....
  
   (NAP)
• Nigerian People's Party
  Nigerian People's Party
  The Nigerian Peoples Party was one of the major political parties that contested elections in the Nigerian Second Republic. The party was made up of three major groups: the Lagos Progressives, Club 19, and the Nigerian Council of Understanding....
  
   (NPP)
• People's Redemption Party
  People's Redemption Party
  The People's Redemption Party was a political party in Nigeria. Often considered the Second Republic incarnation of the Northern Elements Progressive Union, the party was created by the late Mallam Aminu Kano. The PRP was highly regarded as a progressive left of center political party. Some well...
  
   (PRP)
• Unity Party of Nigeria
  Unity Party of Nigeria
  The Unity Party of Nigeria was a Nigerian political party that was dominant in western Nigeria during the second republic. The party revolved around the political leadership of Obafemi Awolowo, a sometimes polemical but effective administrator. However, the party's main difference with its...
  
   (UPN)
• Movement of the People Party (MPP)

First Republic (1960-1966)

• Action Group
  Action Group (Nigeria)
  Action Group was a Nigerian political party established in Ibadan on March 21, 1951, by the Ègbe Ọmọ Odùduwà led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The party was founded to serve as the platform for realizing his primary objective of mobilising the Yorùbá into one political umbrella...
  
   (AG)
• Borno Youth Movement
  Borno Youth Movement
  Borno Youth Movement was a Nigerian political party founded on June 26, 1954. The party was founded by young radicals of Kanuri heritage who were indignant with the administrative course of native authorities in Borno and wanted to reform the authority....
  
   (BYM)
• Democratic Party of Nigeria and Cameroon (DPNC)
• Dynamic Party
  Dynamic Party
  Dynamic Party was a Nigerian political party headed by the mathematician and erudite scholar Chike Obi. It was inaugurated in Ibadan on April 7, 1951. The party embraced Kemalism, and was cautious about the early movement towards self-government....
  
   (DP)
• Igala Union
  Igala Union
  Igala Union was a political union in Nigeria during the nation's first republic. The union was originally made up of members from a powerful Igala group who were sympathetic to the Northern People's Congress. The union won four House of Representatives seats in the 1959 parliamentary...
  
   (IU)
• Igbira Tribal Union
  Igbira Tribal Union
  Igbira Tribal Union was a political organization formed by educated servicemen from Igbira Native Administration of Northern Nigeria, headed by George Ohikere. The union was one of the non Hausa-Fulani organizations that was affiliated with the dominant Northern People's Congress during the...
  
   (ITU)
• Kano People's Party (KPP)
• Lagos State United Front (LSUF)
• Mabolaje Grand Alliance (MGA)
• Midwest Democratic Front
  Midwest Democratic Front
  The Midwest Democratic Front was a small political party from Nigeria's Midwest region; encompassing present day Edo and Delta states. The party was one of the various small parties that forged alliances with the dominant parties in Nigeria's first republic, such as the Action Group, the Northern...
  
   (MDF)
• National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
  National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
  National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons , was a Nigerian political party from 1944 to 1966. The name included 'Cameroons' because Cameroon had become an administrative part of Nigeria in 1945. Cameroon had been a colonial territory of Germany...
  
  /National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC)
• Niger Delta Congress
  Niger Delta Congress
  The Niger Delta Congress was one of the small political parties in Nigeria's First Republic. The party generated most of its support from minorities in the Eastern Region of Nigeria. The party was formed by Harold Biriye and some southern minority leaders, principally from Degema, Ogoni, Brass and...
  
   (NDC)
• Nigerian National Democratic Party
  Nigerian National Democratic Party
  The Nigerian National Democratic Party , was Nigeria's first political party.Formed in 1923 by Herbert Macaulay to take advantage of the new Clifford Constitution, the NNDP successfully organized various Yoruba interest groups into a single group that was able to compete politically...
  
   (NNDP)
• Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU)
• Northern People's Congress
  Northern People's Congress
  Northern People's Congress is a political party in Nigeria. Formed in June 1949, the party held considerable influence in the Northern Region from the 1950s until the military coup of 1966....
  
   (NPC)
• Northern Progressive Front
  Northern Progressive Front
  The Northern People's Front was a Nigerian political league comprising NEPU and United Middle Belt Congress members....
  
   (NPF)
• Republican Party (RP)
• United Middle Belt Congress
  United Middle Belt Congress
  United Middle Belt Congress was a political party in Nigeria during the nation's First Republic. The Party was a fusion of two major middle belt organizations, the Middle Zone League and the Middle Belt Peoples' Party...
  
   (UMBC)
• United National Independence Party
  United National Independence Party (Nigeria)
  The United National Independence Party was a Nigerian political party formed in the mid 1950s. It was made up of a group of N.C.N.C members who were opposed to some of the policies of Nnamdi Azikiwe and had formed the National Independence Party...
  
   (UNIP)
• Zamfara Commoners Party (ZCP)

See also

• Politics of Nigeria
  Politics of Nigeria
  Nigeria is a Federal Republic modeled after the United States, with executive power exercised by the president and with influences from the Westminster System model in the composition and management of the upper and lower houses of the bicameral legislature. However, the President of Nigeria is...
  
  
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