Saint Lucia: Political Parties & Elections

Saint Lucia has operated under a two-party political system since the mid-twentieth century, dominated by the Saint Lucia Labour Party and the United Workers Party. The Labour Party was established in 1949 with backing from the Saint Lucia Workers Cooperative Union...

Saint Kitts and Nevis: Political Parties & Elections

Saint Kitts and Nevis operates as a parliamentary democracy in which political competition has long been shaped by a handful of parties rooted in the mid-twentieth-century labor movement. The St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party, founded in 1932 as the St Kitts Workers’...

Peru: Political Parties & Elections

For much of the twentieth century, Peruvian politics was organized around a handful of durable parties, most notably the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), founded in 1924, alongside conservative and military-aligned movements that alternated in and out...

Paraguay: Political Parties & Elections

Paraguay’s modern party system dates to 1887, when the Colorado Party (Asociación Nacional Republicana) and the Liberal Party emerged as rival organizations. The Colorados held power from their founding until a Liberal-led revolt unseated them in 1904, after...
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