Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Eric Williams ne ya kafa jam'iyyar a shekarar 1955, wanda ya yi wahayi daga jam'iyyar 'yan gurguzu ta Norman Manley ta jam'iyyar' yan kasa ta jama'a a Jamaica. Ya lashe zaben gama gari na 1956 kuma ya ci gaba da rike mulki har tsawon shekaru 30. Bayan mutuwar Williams a 1981, George Chambers ya jagoranci jam'iyyar. Jam'iyyar ta sha kaye a babban zaben 1986, inda ta yi rashin nasara 33<unk>3 ga National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR). A karkashin jagorancin Patrick Manning, jam'iyyar ta koma mulki a 1991 bayan yunkurin juyin mulkin 1990 da Jamaat al-Muslimeen ya yi.
, amma ya rasa iko a 1995 zuwa United National Congress (UNC). Jam'iyyar PNM ta sake rasa ga UNC a Babban Za ~ en 2000, amma rarrabuwa a cikin UNC ya tilasta sabon za ~ en a shekara ta 2001. Wadannan zabukan sun haifar da daidaituwa tsakanin PNM da UNC, kuma Shugaba Arthur N. R. Robinson ya nada Manning a matsayin Firayim Minista. Manning bai iya zaɓar Shugaban Majalisar Wakilai ba, amma ya sami rinjaye a cikin sabon zaɓen da aka gudanar a 2002 da kuma a 2007, kafin ya rasa iko a 2010. Ya koma mulki a babban zaben 2015 a karkashin Keith Rowley inda ya sami sakamako mafi kyau tun bayan babban zaben 1981, inda ya lashe kashi 51.7 cikin dari na kuri'un jama'a da kuma kujeru 23 cikin 41. A babban zaben 2020, sun sami kuri'un jama'a da rinjaye a Majalisar Wakilai, inda suka lashe kujeru 22.