This article lists political parties in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

 has a fading two-party system

Two-party system

A two-party system is a system where two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government and, as a result, all or nearly all elected offices are members of one of the two major parties...

, which means that there are two dominant political parties

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of another party.

However, though the center-left Awami League and center-right BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party , commonly referred to as the BNP, is the mainstream center-right political party in Bangladesh. BNP ruled Bangladesh total 18 years since her independence, the longest than any other party in Bangladesh...

 dominated Bangladesh politics for a long time, currently both are heading coalitions of like-minded parties with the AL leading the secular and liberal elements while BNP is rallying the right-of-centre parties.

Parliamentary parties

• Bangladesh Awami League
  Bangladesh Awami League
  The Bangladesh Awami League , commonly known as the Awami League, is the mainstream center-left, secular political party in Bangladesh...
  
  
• Bangladesh Nationalist Party
  Bangladesh Nationalist Party
  The Bangladesh Nationalist Party , commonly referred to as the BNP, is the mainstream center-right political party in Bangladesh. BNP ruled Bangladesh total 18 years since her independence, the longest than any other party in Bangladesh...
  
   (BNP) (Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Dal)
• Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
  Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
  Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami , previously known as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh , is a far-right Islamist political party in Bangladesh....
  
  
• Bangladesh Jatiya Party-BJP
• Communist Party of Bangladesh
  Communist Party of Bangladesh
  The Communist Party of Bangladesh is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Bangladesh, founded in 1968 as the Communist Party of East Pakistan.- History :...
  
  
• Socialist Party of Bangladesh (SPB)
• Khilafat Majlis
• Liberal Democratic Party
• Islamic Unity Front (Islami Oikya Jote)
• Islami Oikya Jote
  Islami Oikya Jote
  The Islami Oikya Jote is a political party in Bangladesh.At the last legislative elections, 1 October 2001, the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It is led by Ameer Allama Mufti Fazlul Huq Amini and Chairman Shaikul Hadith Allama Azizul Haq...
  
   (En. Islamic National Unity Front)
• Jatiya Party - Hussain Muhammad Ershad (En. National Party)
• Jatiyo Shomajtantrik Dal-JSD
• Jatiyo Shomajtantrik Dal
• Bangladesh National Awami Party (Bangladesh NAP)
• National Party (Manju) (Jatiya Dal (Manju))
• Peasants' and Workers' People's League (Krishak Sramik Janata League)
• Gonotantry Party (President: Mohammad Afzal, General Secretary: Nurur Rahman Salim)
• Islami Andolaon Bangladesh
• Bangladesh democratic party
• Bangladesh Representative Party (BRP)
• Bangladesh Janata Party (BJP)
• Bikolpo Dhara Bangladesh

Other parties

• Hridoyé Manush (Minhaz Elahi Islam-Mati)
• Ganosamhati Andolon
• Hizb ut-Tahrir
  Hizb ut-Tahrir
  Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni. pan-Islamic political organisation but keeps it open for all including shias,some of its beliefs are against sunni school of thought, whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph...
  
  
• Liberal Party Bangladesh
  Liberal Party Bangladesh
  The Liberal Party Bangladesh is a liberal political party in Bangladesh. It was established in August 1998 by a merger of various liberal, secular and centre-left political parties and trade unions....
  
  
• United Bengal Liberation Movement
• Nagorik Shakti
  Nagorik Shakti
  Nagorik Shakti was a proposed political party in Bangladesh. It was conceived in by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. "Nagorik Shakti" means "Citizen's Power". Yunus communicated his ideas to the people of the nation and asked for feedbacks by writing a total of three letters addressed...
  
  

See also

• Politics of Bangladesh
  Politics of Bangladesh
  Politics of Bangladesh takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Bangladesh is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the...
  
  
• List of political parties by country