Malawi: Active registered parties

Updated August 2008

Parties formed after the 2004 election

Parties ordered date of founding.

Party Leaders Founded
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Dr Bingu wa Mutharika 28 Feb 2005
United Democratic Party (UDP) Kenedy Solomon Kalambo Feb 2005
New Republican Party (NRP) Gwanda Chakuwamba Oct 2005
Malavi People's Party (MPP) Uladi Mussa Jun 2007
New Rainbow Coalition Party(NARC) Beatrice Mwale Mar 2008
Congress of Democrats (CODE) Ralph Kasambara Jun 2008

Parties that won seats in the 2004 National Assembly

Parties are ordered by the votes won in the 2004 National Assembly election.

Party Leaders Founded
United Democratic Front (UDF)
Formerly: United Democratic Party
Dr Bakili Muluzi Mar 1992
Malawi Congress Party (MCP)
Formerly: Nyasaland African Congress
John ZU Tembo
Gwanda Chakwamba (left to form RP)
Stephen Gwandanguluwe Chakuamba-Phiri
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda (d 27 November 1997)
Orton Chirwa (d 20 October 1992)
1944
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Brown James Mpinganjira Jan 2003
Republican Party (RP) Gwanda Chakwamba Jan 2004
Alliance For Democracy (AFORD) Tom Chakufwa Chihana (d 12 June 2006) Sep 1991
People's Progressive Movement (PPM) Aleke Kadonaphani Banda Mar 2003
Movement for Genuine Democratic Change (MGODE) Sam Kandodo Banda Oct 2003
People's Transformation Party (PETRA) Kamuzu Chibambo Dec 2002
Congress for National Unity (CONU) Bishop Daniel Kamfosi Nkhumbwe Mar 1999

Parties that failed to win seats in the 2004 National Assembly

Parties are ordered by the votes won in the 2004 National Assembly election.

Party Leaders Founded
Malawi Forum for Unity and Development (MAFUNDE) George Mnesa Jun 2002
Malawi Democratic Party (MDP) Kamlepo Kalua Aug 1993
New Congress for Democracy (NCD) Hetherwick M Ntaba Dec 2003
National Solidarity Movement (NSM) Ngwazi Kazuni Kumwenda
Anwar Nyanjagha
Feb 1999
National Unity Party (NUP) Harry Chiume Jul 1995
Pamodzi Freedom Party (PFP) Dr Rainsford Chigadula Ndiwo Oct 2002

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PATEL, N 2005 Political Parties: Development and Change in Malawi [PDF document], EISA Research Report No 21.

RAKNER, L & SVÅSAND, L 2005, Fissions and fusions, foes and friends: Party-system re-structuring in Malawi in the 2004 general elections, Chr Michelsen Institute, [www] http://www.cmi.no/pdf/?file=/publications/2005/wp/wp2005-6.pdf [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 24 Oct 2007).

REGISTRAR OF POLITICAL PARTIES 2008 "Particulars of Registered Political Parties in Malawi", SDNP Malawi, [www] http://www.sdnp.org.mw/~paulos/elect2009/political-parties-registration-list-4-6-08.pdf [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 21 August 2008).

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