Muslim Congress Party

The Muslim Congress Party was a political party in the Gambia. The party was founded during the pre-independence period to represent the Muslim population in the colony of Bathurst (now Banjul). The party was led by I.M. Garba-Jahumpa.[http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/ad3_2000/edie.pdf Democracy in The Gambia by Carlene J Edie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927164212/http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/ad3_2000/edie.pdf |date=2006-09-27 }} The party emerged from the Bathurst Young Muslim Society.Hughes, Arnold. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/484012 From Green Uprising to National Reconciliation: The People's Progressive Party in the Gambia 1959-1973], in Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1. (1975), pp. 61-74.

Garba-Jahumpa won one of the three directly elected seat in the Legislative Council in 1951 and 1954, as the MCP candidate.Hughes, Arnold ; Perfect, Davi. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/723036 Trade Unionism in the Gambia] , in African Affairs, Vol. 88, No. 353. (Oct., 1989), pp. 549-572. It contested the 1960 election in alliance with the People's Progressive Party (which was based in the rural areas).

Ahead of the 1962 election, the MCP merged with the Democratic Party to form the Democratic Congress Alliance.