People's_Democratic_Party_(Trinidad_and_Tobago) Knowpia

People's Democratic Party
People's Democratic Party
Abbreviation	DLP
Leader	Bhadase Sagan Maraj
Founder	Bhadase Sagan Maraj
Founded	1953
Dissolved	1957
Succeeded by	17 parties Democratic Labour Party LP UDLP; ; DLP; SIP; SDLP; WINP; WFP ULF NAR CLUB '88 UNC COP; PF; ILP; MUP; NTU; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Headquarters	Champ Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago
Labor wing	All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union (de facto)
Religious wing	Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (de facto)
Ideology	Labourism; Civic nationalism; Anti-communism; Social conservatism; Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian civil rights; Hindu and Muslim religious rights
Political position	Big tent
Regional affiliation	West Indies Democratic Labour Party (1957)
Colors	Yellow
Election symbol
	Wheel
	Politics of Trinidad and Tobago; Political parties; Elections; ^ Democratic Liberation Party; not to be confused with the Democratic Labour Party ;

The People's Democratic Party was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago formed in 1953. Under the leadership of Bhadase Sagan Maraj it contested the 1956 General Elections, capturing 5 of 24 elected seats in the Legislative Council and 20.3% of the vote. In 1957 it joined the Federal Democratic Labour Party and later co-founded the Trinidad and Tobago Democratic Labour Party, together with the Trinidad Labour Party and the Party of Political Progress Groups.

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^ ^a ^b Malik, Yogendra Kuma (1966). The Democratic Labor Party of Trinidad: An attempt at the formation of a mass party in a multi-ethnic society (PhD thesis). University of Florida.
^ "List of political parties and their symbols" (PDF). ebctt.com.