List of political parties in Bangladesh

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 dominates 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.

However, though the AL and BNP dominated Bangladesh politics for a long time, currently these two are heading coalitions of like-minded parties with the AL leading the left-of-centre parties and the BNP is rallying the right-of-centre parties.

Currently in the Parliament
These are all of the political parties that holds at least a seat in the Bangladeshi Parliament

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

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

Left Democratic Alliance
The Left Democratic Alliance is an alliance of 8 Leftist Political parties including Communist Party of Bangladesh, Basad, Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh, United Communist League Of Bangladesh, Ganatantrik Biplobi Party, Bam Gonotantrik Andolon and Gonoshonghoti Andolon.

Registered parties
These are all the parties that are currently registered under Election Commission.

Unregistered parties

 * Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
 * Communist Movement of Bangladesh (CMB)
 * Bangladesh Justice Party (BAJAPA)
 * Ganosamhati Andolan
 * Revolutionary Communist League of Bangladesh - RCLB (Former United Communist League of Bangladesh.)
 * Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
 * Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
 * Purbo Banglar Communist Party
 * Jatiya Ganotantrik Party
 * Kuki-Chin National Front