Zimbabwe: Parties inactive in 2000 and after

Updated July 2009

Zimbabwe has no law requiring registration by political parties. Thus it is difficult to determine whether a party, which does not compete in elections, actually exists in any formal or functional way. A good many of the parties on this list appear to be defunct.

The parties listed in the table below did not compete in either the 2000 House of Assembly elections or any other after.

Parties are ordered first by date of founding and then alphabetically.

Party Leaders Founded
United National Federal Party (UNFP) Chief Kayisa Ndiweni 1978
National Front of Zimbabwe (NFZ) Peter Mandaza 1979
Zimbabwe Democratic Party (ZDP) James Chikerema 1979
Zimbabwe Active People's Unity Party Newman Ndela 1989
Zimbabwe People's Democratic Party (ZPDP) Isabel Shanangurai Madangure 1991
Committee for a Democratic Society (CODESO) Soul Ndlovu 1993
Forum Party of Zimbabwe (FPZ) Washington Sansole
Judge Enoch Dumbutshena
Mar 1993
Zimbabwe Congress Party (ZCP) Kenneth Mano 1994
Zimbabwe Federal Party (ZFP) Richard Ncube 1994
General Conference of Patriots Obey Mudzingwa 1998
Zimbabwe Labour Party (ZLP)