This article lists political parties in the Gambia. The Gambia was a multi-party political system starting from the 1960s, with the People's Progressive Party (PPP) led by president Dawda Jawara serving as the dominant party after the Gambia gained independence in 1965. Following the 1994 Gambian coup d'état, Yahya Jammeh was installed as president, and in 1996, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) was established as the dominant party. Many opposition parties were either banned or suppressed and the APRC managed to stay in power with little opposition until 2016, when Jammeh was defeated by opposition candidate Adama Barrow in the presidential elections.