The People's Democratic Movement is a political party in the Turks and Caicos Islands founded by James Alexander George Smith McCartney and Lewis Edwin Astwood III.

The party is led by the current opposition leader, Edwin Astwood.

Founded in October 1975, the PDM was the first party to be elected to head the Government.

In July 2012, Oswald Skippings was elected as the leader of the PDM, while Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson defeated Sean Astwood to become the party's first-ever female deputy leader.

[5] On November 9, 2012 the PDM was defeated by the PNP and Oswald Skippings stepped down as leader.