The National Democratic Party is an Iraqi political party. The original party was founded in 1946 as a left-leaning opposition movement that modeled itself after the British Labour Party. It advocated workers' rights, land reform, and social democracy. The party was closely linked with the government of Abdul Karim Qassim, but in the 1960s it began internally divided. With the Ba'athist coup in 1963 the party officially ceased to exist. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq several Iraqis revived the party including Naseer al-Chaderchi, son of former leader Kamil al-Chaderchi , and Abdul-Ameer Abboud Rahima. It ran in the 2005 Iraqi election and received 36,795 votes, good for one seat.
