This article lists political parties in Sint Maarten.

Sint Maarten has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which usually a single party does not have a chance of gaining power alone, and thus parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. Political parties tend to be loose political groupings, rather than supporting a consistent ideology, and as such, in the 2010s there were several instances of members of parties leaving to become unaffiliated, leading to the collapse of several coalition governments and snap elections.

Parties

Parties represented in Parliament

Party Abbr. Leader Political position Ideology MPs
National Alliance
Nationale Alliantie		 NA Silveria Jacobs Centre-left Social democracy
6 / 15
United People's Party
Verenigde Volkspartij		 UP Theodore Heyliger Centre-right
5 / 15
United St. Maarten Party
United St. Maarten Party		 USP Frans Richardson Communitarianism
2 / 15
Party for Progress
Vooruitgangspartij		 PFP Melissa Gumbs
2 / 15
United Democrats
Verenigde Democraten		 UD Sarah Wescot-Williams Centre-left Christian left
Social democracy
1 / 15

Other parties

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