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Founded in 1955 by Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Emmanuel Christopher Loblack, the Dominica Labour Party is the oldest political party in Dominica. [1] It first contested general elections in 1961, winning seven of the eleven seats, and party leader Edward Leblanc became Premier of Dominica. [2] In the next elections in 1966 it won all but one of ...
In May 1955, with longtime Dominican political activist Phyllis Shand Allfrey, he created the Dominica Labour Party. [2] However, at the same time, the visions of new Trade Union members and Loblack began to differ, and in 1957 he left. His perseverance and commitment towards the Dominica Labour Party garnered him a nominated seat in the ...
It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the New Zealand Labour Party under Norman Kirk at the 1972 general election. The Labour Party promoted its initiatives with advertisements featuring the lines "It's time for a change, it's time for Labour."
There were only eight constituencies at the time and the other five seats were held by the governing party, Frank Baron's Dominica United People's Party (DUPP). [1] In July 1960, DUPP legislators Lionel Laville and L. C. Didier resigned, forcing a new general election on 17 January 1961. Ducreay won re-election and the DLP won a majority of the ...
Day joined the Labour Party before the 2020 general election. [10] In July 2022, she was elected unopposed to be the next president of the Labour Party after Claire Szabó stated she would not seek re-election that year. She was the only nomination to take over from Szabó at the 2022 Labour Party annual conference.
Since the election held on 6 December 2022, the Dominica Labour Party holds 19 of the 21 directly elected seats, and independent candidates hold two elected seats. The new House of Assembly included a record ten women. [3]
The New Zealand Social Credit Party (sometimes called "Socred") was a political party that was New Zealand's third party from the 1950s to the 1980s. It was elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives, holding one seat at times between 1966 and 1981, and two seats from 1981 to 1987. NewLabour Party: 1989 2000 1989–1991
The party was established when Jim Anderton and his supporters left the Alliance party. The Progressive Party held at least one seat in Parliament from 2002 to 2011 because of Anderton's victories in the electorate of Wigram. The party did not contest the 2011 general election, and was de-registered at its own request on 9 March 2012 . [1] [2]