{{short description|Political party in Guinea}} {{Infobox political party | name = Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally | native_name = Parti Démocratique de Guinée-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain | abbreviation = PDG-RDA | logo = | colorcode = {{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}} | leader1_title = Co-founder | leader1_name = Ahmed Sékou Touré | leader = Ismael Gushein | foundation = June 1947 | dissolution = | headquarters = Conakry, Guinea | newspaper = ''{{ill|Horoya (newspaper)|lt=Horoya|fr|Horoya}}'' | ideology = African nationalism<br>African socialism<br>Pan-Africanism<ref>{{cite book |last=Martin |first=G. |date=2012-12-23 |title=African Political Thought |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/African_Political_Thought.html?id=rqYEhtONIBgC&source=kp_book_description |publisher=Springer |page=92-92 |isbn=1137062053 |access-date=2025-05-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Umi |first=Ahjamu |date=2022-11-17 |title=How Guinea and the PDG Helped Shape Modern Pan-Africanism |url=https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/11/17/how-guinea-and-the-pdg-helped-shape-modern-pan-africanism/ |website=hoodcommunist.org |access-date=2025-05-19 |quote=[…] but the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) – the Pan-Africanist political party founded by Ture, […]}}</ref><br />Ethno-nationalism<ref>https://2009-2017.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/guinea/47156.htm</ref><br>Marxism<ref name=Left>{{cite journal |last=Datta |first=Ansu K. |date=July–September 1967 |title=Left-Wing Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45069215 |journal=India Quarterly |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=238–239 |doi=10.1177/097492846702300302 |jstor=45069215 |access-date=2025-05-17|url-access=subscription }}</ref> (until 1978)<ref name="ippa">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xbmCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR54|title=Historical Dictionary of Marxism|first1=Elliott|last1=Johnson|first2=David|last2=Walker|first3=Daniel|last3=Gray|date=9 September 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442237988|via=Google Books}}</ref><br>Integral nationalism<ref>{{cite web | url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3904849 | ssrn=3904849 | title=An Appraisal of SekouToure's Ideological and Integral Nationalism | date=13 August 2021 | last1=Abdulyakeen | first1=Abdulrasheed }}</ref><br>Democratic centralism<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Banks |editor-first1=Arthur S. |editor-last2=Overstreet |editor-first2=William |date=1983 |title=Political Handbook of the World: 1982-1983: Governments and Intergovernmental Organisation as of January 1st 1983 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Political_Handbook_of_the_World.html?id=NGO1zwEACAAJ |publisher=McGraw-Hill |page=196 |access-date=2025-05-16 |quote=Organized along "democratic centralist" lines, […]}}</ref> | position = Left-wing<ref name=Left /> | international = African Democratic Rally | membership = | country = Guinea }} The '''Democratic Party of Guinea{{snd}}African Democratic Rally''' ({{langx|fr|Parti Démocratique de Guinée-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain}}) is a political party in Guinea that dominated Guinean politics under a one-party state system.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kilson |first=Martin L. |date=1963 |title=Authoritarian and Single-Party Tendencies in African Politics |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/article/abs/authoritarian-and-singleparty-tendencies-in-african-politics/C06E363B216E1DC2324E77AABDE4FE40 |journal=World Politics |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=262–294 |doi=10.2307/2009376 |jstor=2009376 |s2cid=154624186 |issn=1086-3338|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The party was founded as a branch of the African Democratic Rally (RDA) in June 1947.<ref>Thomas O'Toole, ''Historical Dictionary of Guinea'', 1978, p. 55</ref> On 19 October 1958, the party severed its links with the RDA, other members of which supported a closer union with France.<ref>O'Toole, p. 60</ref> The party's leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré, became the country's first president. Two years later, he declared the PDG to be the sole legal party in the country. As president of the PDG, Touré was the only candidate for president of the republic, and as such was elected unopposed to four seven-year terms. Every five years, a single list of PDG candidates was returned to the National Assembly. After the death of Touré and a coup staged by Lansana Conté in 1984, the PDG was dissolved.
In 1992, PDG-RDA was revived under the leadership of Ismael Gushein. In the parliamentary election held on 30 June 2002, the party won 3.4% of the popular vote and 3 out of 114 seats.<ref name='African Elections Database'>{{cite web|url=http://africanelections.tripod.com/gn.html |title=Elections in Guinea |access-date=2007-02-24 }}</ref>
== Electoral history ==
=== Presidential elections === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" !Election !Party candidate !Votes !% !Result |- |1961 |rowspan=4|Ahmed Sékou Touré |1,576,580 |100% |'''Elected''' {{Y}} |- |1968 |1,990,726 |100% |'''Elected''' {{Y}} |- |1974 |2,432,129 |100% |'''Elected''' {{Y}} |- |1982 |3,063,692 |100% |'''Elected''' {{Y}} |- |1993 |Ismael Gushein |11,696 |0.6% |'''Lost''' {{Nay}} |}
=== National Assembly elections === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" !Election !Party leader !colspan=2|Votes !% !Seats !+/– !Position !Result |- |1957 |rowspan=5|Ahmed Sékou Touré |colspan=2|584,438 |77.4% |{{Composition bar|56|60|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 56 |{{increase}} 1st | {{yes2|Supermajority government}} |- |1963 |colspan=2| |100% |{{Composition bar|75|75|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 19 |{{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Sole legal party}} |- |1968 |colspan=2|1,990,726 |100% |{{Composition bar|75|75|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |{{steady}} |{{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Sole legal party}} |- |1974 |colspan=2|2,432,129 |100% |{{Composition bar|150|150|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 75 |{{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Sole legal party}} |- |1980 |colspan=2|2,393,600 |100% |{{Composition bar|210|210|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 60 |{{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Sole legal party}} |- |rowspan=2|1995 |rowspan=8|Ismael Gushein |Proportional |57,942 |3% |rowspan=2|{{Composition bar|2|114|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |rowspan=2|{{decrease}} 208 |rowspan=2|{{decrease}} 6th | rowspan=2 {{no2|Opposition}} |- |Constituency | | |- |rowspan=2|2002 |Proportional |107,666 |3.4% |rowspan=2|{{Composition bar|3|114|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |rowspan=2|{{increase}} 1 |rowspan=2|{{increase}} 4th | rowspan=2 {{no2|Opposition}} |- |Constituency | | |- |rowspan=2|2013 |Constituency |19,603 |0.66% |rowspan=2|{{Composition bar|0|114|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |rowspan=2|{{decrease}} 3 |rowspan=2|{{decrease}} 20rd | rowspan=2 {{eliminated|Extra-parliamentary}} |- |Proportional |10,539 |0.33% |- |rowspan=2|2020 |Constituency | | |rowspan=2|{{Composition bar|1|114|hex={{party color|Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally}}}} |rowspan=2|{{increase}} 1 |rowspan=2|{{decrease}} 23rd | rowspan=2 {{no2|Opposition}} |- |Proportional |27,640 |0.96% |}
== See also == *African Democratic Party of Guinea
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Guinean political parties}}
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