List of political parties in Magisteria

Since 1962, Magisterian political parties have been given an electoral number to make it easier for illiterate people to vote. Initially, it was a one-digit number: 1 for the NRC, 2 for the MDP, and the other numbers go to the then-third minor parties. When it became clear that there was going to be more than a few parties, two-digit numbers were assigned, with the first five parties having a "1" added to their former one-digit number (NRC becoming number 11, MDP becoming number 12, and the list goes on). Often political parties change their names but retain their number.

Before the 1989 election, Magisteria operated under a de facto two-party system with the social-democratic Magisterian Democratic Party and the big-tent conservative National Republican Coalition dominating Magisterian politics since the fall of the Liberal Republican Party.