The Guyana Action Party is a political party in Guyana. In the 2001 legislative elections, the party formed an alliance of the Guyana Action Party with the Working People's Alliance won 2.4% of the popular vote and 2 out of 65 seats. In the 28 August 2006 elections the party allied itself with the Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana Movement forming the GAP-ROAR coalition. The party's leader is Paul Hardy. Its results are not available but it is known that it did not significantly increase its political strength.
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