The Simón Bolívar Great Patriotic Pole (, GPPSB), simply known as the Great Patriotic Pole (, GPP), is a left-wing, socialist, and Chavista electoral alliance and popular front of Venezuelan political parties created in 2012 to support the re-election of Hugo Chávez in the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election.
Members The GPP is composed of the following political parties: Party Spanish name Leader Ideology National Assembly Government United Socialist Party of Venezuela Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro as PresidentDiosdado Cabello as Parliamentary Leader ChavismoBolivarianismSocialism of the 21st century rowspan="13" Majority Fatherland for All (section) Patria Para Todos Democratic socialismLibertarian Marxism Tupamaro (section) Tendencias Unificadas Para Alcanzar el Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria Organizada CommunismMarxism–LeninismGuevarismFoco theoryRevolutionary socialism For Social Democracy Por la Democracia Social Didalco Bolívar Social democracy Republican Bicentennial Vanguard Vanguardia Bicentenaria Republicana Bolivarianism Venezuelan Popular Unity Unidad Popular Venezolana Anti-imperialism Alliance for Change Alianza para el Cambio Carlos Vargas Social democracy People's Electoral Movement Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo Left-wing populism Organized Socialist Party in Venezuela Partido Socialista Organizado en Venezuela Fernando Lisboa Democratic socialism Movement We Are Venezuela Movimiento Somos Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez Left-wing nationalism Networks Party Partido Redes Juan Barreto Chavismo Authentic Renewal Organization Organización Renovadora –Auténtica Christian socialism Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents Corrientes Revolucionarias Venezolanas Ramsés Colmenares (es) Communism Not members, but politically support the GPP Revolutionary Middle Class Clase Media Revolucionaria Reinaldo Quijada Chavismo rowspan="3" Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista de Venezuela CommunismMarxism–LeninismHoxhaismAnti-Revisionism Worker's Party Partido de los Trabajadores
Election results
Parliamentary National Assembly Election year No. ofoverall votes % ofoverall vote No. ofoverall seats won +/– Leader 2015 5,625,248 (2nd) 40.9 55 Diosdado Cabello 2020 4,317,819 (1st) 69.3 198 Diosdado Cabello 2025 5,024,475 (1st) 83.4 0 Jorge Rodríguez
Presidential Election yearName Results # ofoverall votes % ofoverall vote2012 Hugo Chávez 8,191,132 55.1 (1st) Member of "United Socialist Party of Venezuela" party in coalition. Winner2013 Nicolás Maduro 7,587,579 50.6 (1st) Member of "United Socialist Party of Venezuela" party in coalition. Winner 2018(disputed) Nicolás Maduro 6,205,875 67.8 (1st) Member of "United Socialist Party of Venezuela" party in coalition. Winner 2024(disputed) Nicolás Maduro 6,408,844 51.95 (1st) Member of "United Socialist Party of Venezuela" party in coalition. Winner
Regional Election year No. ofoverall votes % ofoverall vote Governors 2012 4,853,494 (1st) 56.2 2017 5,814,903 (1st) 55.1 2021 3,595,490 (1st) 40.2
Municipal Election year No. ofoverall votes % ofoverall vote 2013 5,216,522 (1st) 48.7 2017 6,517,506 (1st) 71.3 2018 ~5,519,890 (1st) 97.3
See also Democratic Unity Roundtable – the opposing electoral alliance Popular Revolutionary Alternative – a breakaway electoral alliance United Alliance Nicaragua Triumphs – the ruling alliance in Nicaragua
Notes Also includes some centre-left parties and one right-wing party, but is dominated by the left-wing other than on social policies such as abortion and LGBT rights.
References
External links Official website