Kurdistan Democratic Party

Armed Wing
(Zeravani)
Armed Wing ; (Zeravani)
Leader	Masoud Barzani
Dates of operation	1946–Present
Headquarters	Erbil, Kurdistan Region
Active regions	Iraq; Kurdistan
Size	250,000 (active personnel) ; 250,000 (reserved personnel)
Battles and wars	Before 2003: First Iraqi–Kurdish War; Second Iraqi–Kurdish War; PUK insurgency; Iran–Iraq War; 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions; Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict; Anfal campaign; Gulf War; 1991 Iraqi uprisings; Battle of Sulaymaniyah; Kurdish Civil War; Islamist insurgency in Kurdistan; ; After 2003: 2003 invasion of Iraq; Operation Viking Hammer; First Iraq War; Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011); Iraqi civil war (2006–2008); Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013); War in Iraq (2013–2017); US intervention in the Syrian civil war; 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict; Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present); Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict; Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria (2023–present); ;

Kurdistan Democratic Party

پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان
Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê
Kurdistan Democratic Party پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان; Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê
President	Masoud Barzani
Founder	Mustafa Barzani
Founded	16 August 1946
Headquarters	Masif Selahaddin, Erbil Governorate,Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Ideology	Kurdish nationalism; ; Republicanism; Conservatism; Secularism; Barzanism; Atlanticism; Populism;
Political position	Big tent
Colours	Yellow
Council of Representatives of Iraq	31 / 329
Kurdistan Region Parliament	39 / 100
Party flag
Website
	kdp.info
	Politics of Iraq; Political parties; Elections;

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (Kurdish: پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان, romanized: Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê), usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK, is the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Government. It was founded in 1946 in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan. The party states that it combines "democratic values and social justice to form a system whereby everyone in Kurdistan can live on an equal basis with great emphasis given to rights of individuals and freedom of expression."

The KDP is dominated by the Barzani tribe and the party's stated ideologies are lawfulness, secularism, and Kurdish nationalism. It wants to build a "social-oriented" economy, and lists civil solidarity and social justice as the basis of its ideology.