With the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion on the hori­zon, the dom­i­nance of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) re­mains un­de­ni­able.

How­ev­er, be­yond these two po­lit­i­cal pow­er­hous­es, a wave of small­er par­ties are step­ping in­to the race, de­ter­mined to chal­lenge the sta­tus quo. But are vot­ers tak­ing no­tice? And do these emerg­ing par­ties have a re­al shot at dis­rupt­ing the tra­di­tion­al strong­hold?

In the 2020 elec­tion, 18 par­ties con­test­ed the polls, but the PNM nar­row­ly won with 22 seats to the UNC’s 19. The up­com­ing April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion is shap­ing up to be just as com­pet­i­tive.