People's Democratic Party (Trinidad and Tobago)

People's Democratic Party
Abbreviation	DLP
Leader	Bhadase Sagan Maraj
Founder	Bhadase Sagan Maraj
Founded	1953 (1953)[1]
Dissolved	1957 (1957)
Succeeded by	17 parties Democratic Labour Party LP UDLP DLP[a] SIP SDLP WINP WFP ULF NAR CLUB '88 UNC COP PF ILP MUP NTU
Headquarters	Champ Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago[2]
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[1]
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.

References

1. 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.
2. "List of political parties and their symbols" (PDF). ebctt.com.