People / group

People's National Party

1938– · 20th century · Also known as PNP

The People's National Party is one of Jamaica's two main political parties, founded in 1938 by Norman Manley amid labour unrest. Social democratic in outlook, it governed under Manley in the years before independence and has alternated in power with the Jamaica Labour Party since 1962, under leaders including Michael Manley and P. J. Patterson.

People's National Party
Image: People's National Party of Jamaica · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 state history

Jamaica

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). People's National Party. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/peoples-national-party
MLA
“People's National Party.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/peoples-national-party. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “People's National Party.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/peoples-national-party.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘People's National Party’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/peoples-national-party (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻