The Labour Party was a minor political party in the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...
. In the
1962 general elections it won a single seat, taken by
Randol Fawkes
Sir Randol Francis Fawkes (20 March 1924 – 15 June 2000) was a Bahamian politician, trade unionist and lawyer.
He served as Member of Parliament for the St. Barnabas constituency and for a short time as a Cabinet Minister in the first Pindlin ...
. Fawkes retained his seat in the
1967 elections, in which the
United Bahamian Party
The United Bahamian Party (UBP) was a major political party in the Bahamas in the 1950s and 1960s. Representing the interests of the white oligarchy known as the Bay Street Boys, it was the ruling party between 1958 and 1967.Dieter Nohlen (2005), ...
and the
Progressive Liberal Party
The Progressive Liberal Party (abbreviated PLP) is a populist and social liberal party in the Bahamas. Philip Davis is the leader of the party.
History
The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton Tay ...
won 18 seats each. Although the UBP had won more votes, Fawkes supported the PLP, allowing them to form a government. Fawkes retained his seat again in the
1968 elections, but the party did not contest the
1972 elections.
The party reappeared to contest the
1987 elections, but received only 112 votes and failed to win a seat.
[Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p79 ]
References
Defunct political parties in the Bahamas
Labour parties
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