List of political parties in Bangladesh

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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.^[1]

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.

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[a]	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

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The Grand Alliance (মহাজোট) is a coalition government in Bangladesh that formed in 2008 and consisted of the Awami League, Jatiya Party (Ershad), Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, Workers Party and 10 other parties.

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

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.^[6]

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

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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, abbreviated as BNP, was founded on 1 September 1978 by Bangladeshi 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.^[7] 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.^[8]

These are all the parties that are currently registered under Election Commission.^[9][10]

• Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
• Communist Movement of Bangladesh^[17]
• Jatiya Ganotantrik Party

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