List of political parties in Zimbabwe
Major parties
1）Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - opposition
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is a Zimbabwean political party. It was founded in 1999 as an opposition party to the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party led by President Robert Mugabe. The MDC was formed from many members of the broad coalition of civic society groups and individuals that campaigned for a "No" vote in the 2000 constitutional referendum, in particular the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. The party split following the 2005 Senate election, with one faction headed by Morgan Tsvangirai and the other by Arthur Mutambara; the two factions subsequently won a combined majority in the March 2008 parliamentary election and announced that they were reuniting in April 2008.
2）Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) - ruling party
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) is a Zimbabwean political party that was the ruling government in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and renaming the party ZANU-PF. In the 2008 parliamentary election the ZANU-PF lost control of parliament for the first time in party history.
Minor parties
International Socialist Organisation
National Alliance for Good Governance
United People's Party
Zimbabwe African National Union - Ndonga
Zimbabwe People's Democratic Party
Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance
Defunct parties
Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe - At one time the former governing party, the Rhodesian Front
Patriotic Front
United Party
Rhodesian Action Party
Rhodesian Front Party
United African National Council
Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)
Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU)