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National votes for Labour at general elections since 1992 (millions) England Wales Scotland 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024 A graph showing the percentage of the popular vote received by major parties in general elections (1832–2005), with the rapid rise of the Labour Party after its founding during the late 19th century being clear as it became one of the ...
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. [15][16][17] In a broader sense, the party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. [18] It is the governing party of the United Kingdom, having won the 2024 general ...
Party Status 1918 National Democratic and Labour Party: Merged with the National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) in 1922. 1918 Coalition Labour: Dissolved after the 1918 General Elections. 1931 National Labour Organisation: Dissolved in 1945. 1931 New Party: Became the British Union of Fascists in 1932. 1940 Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club
Labour and Co-operative Party. Labour and Co-operative Party (often abbreviated to Labour Co-op; Welsh: Llafur a'r Blaid Gydweithredol) is a description used by candidates in United Kingdom elections who stand on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party. Candidates contest elections under an electoral alliance between the two ...
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1900, it is one of the two main political parties along with the Conservative Party. In all general elections since 1918, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. Since the 2010 general election, Labour was the second largest party ...
The Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, lit. 'Party of the Working People') is a centre-left [3][4][5] and social democratic [6][7] political party in the Republic of Ireland. [8] Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union ...
32 (12.1%) Second ballot. Eliminated. Eliminated. Leader before election. James Callaghan. Elected Leader. Michael Foot. The 1980 Labour Party leadership election was held following the resignation of James Callaghan, who had been prime minister from 1976 to 1979 and had stayed on as leader of the Labour Party for eighteen months in order to ...
The history of the Australian Labor Party (federally spelt Labour prior to 1912) [1] has its origins in the Labour parties founded in the 1890s in the Australian colonies prior to federation. Labor tradition ascribes the founding of Queensland Labour to a meeting of striking pastoral workers under a ghost gum tree (the "Tree of Knowledge") in ...