List of political parties in Saint-Baptiste

Saint-Baptiste has a two-party system, in where two dominant parties have the ability to form government, with others having extreme difficulty achieving electoral success. The two main parties, the Baptistois Liberal Party (PLB) and the Saint-Baptiste Reform Party (PAREF), have traditionally been referred to as ideologically similar, with the main political divide in Saint-Baptiste being between the successors of the former Bachelet regime in the PLB and those that supported the transition to liberal democracy during the 1990s in PAREF.

Since 2010, some experts have said Saint-Baptiste is moving towards a "two-party-and-a-half system" ("Système bipartite et demi") with the recent success of the Baptistois Labour Party, but most still consider the PLB and PAREF dominant in the country.

Current parties

Parliamentary parties

Name		Abbr.	Ideology	Leader	Deputies
	People's Action Party Parti d'action populaire	PAP	Conservatism Economic liberalism	Robert Ménard	8 / 14
	Saint-Baptiste Labour Party Parti ouvrier Saint-Baptiste	POSB	Creole interests Democratic socialism	Valérie Deschanel	5 / 14
	Rally for Progress Rassemblement pour le progrès	RP	Liberalism Economic liberalism	Rodolphe Hérisson	1 / 14
	Defense of the Republic Défense de la République	DR	Bacheletism National conservatism	Arnaud Delannoy	1 / 14

Defunct parties

Name		Abbr.	Founded	Dissolved	Ideology	Most Deputies
	Baptistois Communist Party Parti communiste baptistois	PCB	1922	1948	Communism Left-wing nationalism	N/A
	Constitutional Party Parti constitutionnel	PC	1930	1952	Conservatism	N/A
	National Republican People's Party Parti populaire républicain national	PPRN	1952	1990	Authoritarianism Bacheletism	N/A
	Democratic Reform Réforme démocratique	RD	1994	1997	Economic liberalism	1 / 14 (1994)