 Conservatives branded the PPP as communist, but the party campaigned on a center-left platform and appealed to a growing nationalism.The other major party participating in the election, the National Democratic Party (NDP), was a spin-off of the League of Coloured Peoples and was largely an Afro-Guyanese middle-class organization, sprinkled with middle-class Portuguese and Indo-Guyanese.The NDP, together with the poorly organized United Farmers and Workers Party and the United National Party, was soundly defeated by the PPP.