Gambian People's Party

Gambian People's Party

The Gambian People's Party was a political party in The Gambia. It was founded by Assan Musa Camara in 1986. GPP was a splinter-group of the governing People's Progressive Party. The party got 15.5% of the votes in the 1987 parliamentary elections and 7.96% in the 1992 elections, but it never won a parliamentary seat. [http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/ad3_2000/edie.pdf Democracy in The Gambia by Carlene J Edie ] ] Camara contested as the presidential candidate of the party in 1987, and got 29,428 votes (14%). In the 1992 presidential election, he got 8% of the votes. [ [http://africanelections.tripod.com/gm.html Elections in The Gambia ] ] The party was banned after the 1994 military coup, and its leading members barred from participating in politics.

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