Labour Party or Labor Party is a name used by many

political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...

. Many of these parties have links to the

trade union movement The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings: the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English) on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other. * The trade union movement ...

or organised labour in general. Labour parties can exist across the political spectrum, but most are

centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The c ...

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

parties. The largest Labour parties, such as the

UK Labour Party The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all gene ...

Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms the f ...

New Zealand Labour Party The New Zealand Labour Party ( mi, Rōpū Reipa o Aotearoa), or simply Labour (), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers descr ...

and

Israeli Labor Party The Israeli Labor Party ( he, מִפְלֶגֶת הָעֲבוֹדָה הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִית, ), commonly known as HaAvoda ( he, הָעֲבוֹדָה, , The Labor), is a social democratic and Zionist political party in Israel. The pa ...

, tend to have a

social democratic Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...

democratic socialist Democratic socialism is a left-wing political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a ...

orientation.

Angola

MPLA The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( pt, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan left-wing, social d ...

, known for some years as "Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party"

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) is a political party in Antigua and Barbuda. The current leader of the party is Gaston Browne, who serves as the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. The party had previously been led by Lester Bird ...

Argentina

Labour Party (Argentina) The Labour Party ( es, Partido Laborista) was a populist political party in Argentina. History The party was founded by Peronist trade union leaders at the end of October 1945. The party organization was built up around the Peronist unions, and ...

Armenia

All Armenian Labour Party The All Armenian Labour Party ( hy, Համահայկական աշխատավորական կուսակցություն), also known as the Pan-Armenian Workers' Party, is a social democratic political party in Armenia. History Prior to the 2003 Ar ...

United Labour Party (Armenia) The United Labour Party () is a social-democratic political party in Armenia. It is led by Gurgen Arsenyan. History Following the Armenian parliamentary election on 25 May 2003, the party won 5.7% of the popular vote and 6 out of 131 seats in ...

Australia

Australian Labor Party (Australian Capital Territory Branch) The Australian Labor Party (Australian Capital Territory Branch), commonly known as ACT Labor, is the ACT branch of the Australian Labor Party. It is one of two major parties in the unicameral Parliament of the Australian Capital Territory. O ...

Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) The Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), also known as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the members of the party caucus, comprising all party mem ...

Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) The Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), commonly known as Queensland Labor or as just Labor inside Queensland, is the state branch of the Australian Labor Party in the state of Queensland. It has functioned in the state since the 1880s. ...

Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch) The Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), commonly known as South Australian Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two ...

Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) The Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch), commonly known as Tasmanian Labor, is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success. Histo ...

Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) The Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), commonly known as Victorian Labor, is the semi-autonomous Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Victorian branch comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organis ...

Democratic Labour Party (Australia) The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), formerly the Democratic Labor Party, is an Australian political party. It broke off from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as a result of the 1955 ALP split, originally under the name Australian Labor Party ...

Progressive Labour Party (Australia) The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) was a left-wing political party in Australia. The party was founded by dissident former members of the Australian Labor Party and the original Communist Party of Australia in 1996. The party claims that the ALP ...

Industrial Socialist Labor Party The Industrial Socialist Labor Party, Industrial Labor Party and the Independent Labor Party were short lived socialist political parties in Australia in 1919 and the early 1920s. The Industrial Socialist Labor Party was founded by radical soci ...

, active late-1910s and early 1920s

Bahamas

Labour Party (Bahamas) The Labour Party was a minor political party in the Bahamas. In the 1962 general elections it won a single seat, taken by Randol Fawkes. Fawkes retained his seat in the 1967 elections, in which the United Bahamian Party and the Progressive Liberal ...

Barbados

Barbados Labour Party The Barbados Labour Party (BLP), colloquially known as the "Bees", is a social democratic political party in Barbados established in 1938. Led by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, it is the governing party of Barbados and the sole ruling party i ...

Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), colloquially known as the "Dems", is a political party in Barbados, established in 1955. It was the ruling party from 15 January 2008 to 24 May 2018 but faced an electoral wipeout in the 2018 general election w ...

Belarus

Belarusian Labour Party The Belarusian Labour Party ( be, Беларуская партыя працы, ''Biełaruskaja Partyja Pracy'') is a social-democratic political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the ...

Belgium

Belgian Labour Party The Belgian Labour Party ( nl, Belgische Werkliedenpartij, BWP; french: Parti ouvrier belge, POB) was the first major socialist party in Belgium. Founded in 1885, the party was officially disbanded in 1940 and superseded by the Belgian Socialist P ...

, active 1885–1940

Bermuda

Progressive Labour Party (Bermuda) The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) is one of the two political parties in Bermuda. At the 18 July 2017 general election, the party won 24 of the 36 seats in the Bermudian House of Assembly to become the governing party. The party was founded ...

Brazil

Brazilian Labour Party (historical) The Brazilian Labour Party ( pt, Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB) was a populist political party in Brazil founded in 1945 by supporters of President Getúlio Vargas. It was dismantled by the Institutional Act Number Two in 1965 during the ...

, 1945–1965 *

Democratic Labour Party (Brazil) The Democratic Labour Party ( pt, Partido Democrático Trabalhista, PDT) is a social-democratic political party in Brazil. History The Democratic Labour Party (PDT) was founded in 1979 by left-wing leader Leonel Brizola as an attempt to reorga ...

, since 1979 *

Brazilian Labour Party (current) The Brazilian Labour Party ( pt, Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB) is a political party in Brazil founded in 1981 by Ivete Vargas, niece of President Getúlio Vargas. It claims the legacy of the historical PTB, although many historians rejec ...

, since 1979 *

Brazilian Labour Renewal Party The Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (, PRTB) is a conservative Brazilian political party. It was founded in 1994 and its electoral number is 28. According to the party's official website, the PRTB's main ideology is participatory economics: "to e ...

, since 1994 *

Avante (political party) Avante (, ) is a centrist Brazilian political party. It was founded in 1989 by dissidents of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) as the Labour Party of Brazil (''Partido Trabalhista do Brasil'', PTdoB) and is a minor force in Brazilian politics. ...

, since 2017, Labour Party of Brazil, 1989–2017 *

Podemos (Brazil) Podemos (PODE; , ), previously known as the National Labour Party ( pt, Partido Trabalhista Nacional, PTN) is a Brazilian political party which supports direct democracy. Led by the Abreu family (José Masci de Abreu, Dorival de Abreu and Renata ...

, since 2016, National Labour Party, 1995–2016 *

Act (Brazil) Act ( pt, Agir), formerly named National Reconstruction Party ( pt, Partido da Reconstrução Nacional; PRN) and Christian Labour Party ( pt, Partido Trabalhista Cristão; PTC), is a political party in Brazil. The party was founded in 1985 as t ...

, since 2021, Christian Labour Party, 2000–2021 *Labour Social Party, 1996–2003 *Brazilian Renovator Labour Party, 1993–1994 *

Renovator Labour Party The Reform Labour Party ( pt, Partido Trabalhista Renovador, PTR) was a political party in Brazil founded in 1985. In 1993 the party merged with the Social Labour Party into Progressive Party. In 1995 the Progressive Party merged with the Reform ...

, 1985–1993 *Labour Social Party, 1988–1993 *Labour Liberal Party, 1991–1993 *Communitarian Labour Party, 1992 *Party of Labour Unity's Movement, 1990 *Agrarian Socialist and Labour Renovator Party, 1985–1990 *National Labour Party, 1986–1989 *Reformer Labour Party, 1985–1986 *National Labour Party, 1945–1965 *Renovator Labour Movement, 1959–1965 *

Social Labour Party The Social Labour Party ( pt, Partido Social Trabalhista, PST) was a political party in Brazil. The PST was founded by dissidents of the Brazilian Labor Party in 1947. Abolished by the military regime in 1965, it was re-organized in 1988 befor ...

, 1947–1965 *Labour Republican Party, 1948–1965 *

Orienting Labour Party The Orienting Labour Party (Portuguese: ''Partido Orientador Trabalhista'', POT) was a political party in Brazil. It supported Cristiano Machado to the Presidency of Brazil in 1950 Brazilian general election, 1950 General Elections. Due to unimpre ...

, 1945–1951 *National Union of Labor, 1948–1965

Burkina Faso

Party of Labour of Burkina The Party of Labour of Burkina () was a political party in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). The PTB was a Marxist-Leninist party founded in 1990 as a split from the Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement (ODP-MT) mainly by fo ...

, active 1990–1996 *

Voltaic Labour Party Voltaic Labour Party (in French: ''Parti Travailliste Voltaïque''), was a centre-left political party in Upper Volta. PTV contested the 1970 elections, without any significant result. PTV functioned as the political branch of the Voltaic Organi ...

, active circa 1970

Burundi

Independent Labor Party The Independent Labor Party (PIT) is a small, predominantly ethnic Tutsi political party in Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; Frenc ...

Canada

Canadian Labour Party The Canadian Labour Party (CLP) was an early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a Labour candidates and parties in Canada, national labour party in Canada. Although it ran candidates in the federal elections of 1917 Canadian federal election, 1917, ...

, active 1917–1929 *

Labour candidates and parties in Canada There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party, or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. These were usually local or provincial groups using the Labour Pa ...

, active 1870s–1960s *

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; french: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, FCC); from 1955 the Social Democratic Party of Canada (''french: Parti social démocratique du Canada''), was a federal democratic socialism, democra ...

(Farmer-Labour-Socialist), active 1932–1961 *

Labor-Progressive Party The Labor-Progressive Party (french: Parti ouvrier-progressiste) was the legal Front organization, front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959. Origins and initial success In the 1940 Canadian federal election, 1940 federal elect ...

, the legal political organization of the Communist Party of Canada active 1943–1959 *

North American Labour Party The North American Labour Party was a Canadian political party that nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. However, because it was not a registered political party under the rules of Elections Canada, its candidates were consider ...

, an unregistered party active circa 1970s *

Cape Breton Labour Party The Cape Breton Labour Party was a social democratic provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada, which drew most of its support from Cape Breton, the northern part of the Province of Nova Scotia. Founding The party was founded by Paul ...

, active 1970–1984

Republic of the Congo

Congolese Party of Labour The Congolese Party of Labour (french: Parti congolais du travail, PCT) is the ruling party of the Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1969 by Marien Ngouabi, it was originally a pro-Soviet, Marxist–Leninist vanguard party which founded the Peop ...

Croatia

Croatian Labourists – Labour Party The Croatian Labourists – Labour Party ( hr, Hrvatski laburisti - Stranka rada) is a social-democratic and democratic socialist political party in Croatia. It was formed in 2010 by a former trade unionist and People's Party MP Dragutin Lesar ...

Croatian Labour Party The Croatian Labour Party ( hr, Hrvatska radnička stranka) is a minor Croatian party without political representation. The Party has about 400 members. It was founded in 1999 in Samobor. It follows teachings of Croatian nationalist Ante Starče ...

Curaçao

Labour Party People's Crusade The People's Crusade Labour Party ( nl, Partij van de Arbeid en de Volksstrijd; pap, Partido Laboral Krusada Popular, PLKP), sometimes referred to as simply Laboral, was a political party in Curaçao founded in 1997. It was known as the party of ...

Dominica

Dominica Labour Party The Dominica Labour Party is a centre-left social-democratic political party in Dominica. History Founded in 1955 by Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Emmanuel Christopher Loblack, the Dominica Labour Party is the oldest political party in Dominica. N ...

Estonia

Estonian Labour Party The Estonian Labour Party ( et, Eesti Tööerakond, ETE) was a political party in Estonia. It was formed in 1919 by a merger of the Radical Socialist Party and the Social Travaillist Party, and ceased to exist in 1932, when it merged with other ce ...

, active 1917–1932

Fiji

Fiji Labour Party The Fiji Labour Party (FLP; fj, Ilawalawa Cakacaka ni Viti), also known as Fiji Labour, is a political party in Fiji. Most of its support is from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an in ...

Georgia

Georgian Labour Party The Georgian Labour Party ( ka, საქართველოს ლეიბორისტული პარტია, ''Sakartvelos Leiboristuli Partia'', SLP) is a political party in Georgia that was founded in 1995 by Shalva Natelashvili ...

Gibraltar

Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) is a social-democratic political party in Gibraltar. The GSLP is the oldest surviving active political party in Gibraltar. Its roots are based in the trade union movement, as its founder and former lea ...

Gibraltar Labour Party The Gibraltar Labour Party was a political party in Gibraltar. They described themselves as a progressive socialist organisation and stated that their formation was prompted by the need for a strong opposition to the government. They were foun ...

, active 2003–2005

Greenland

Labour Party (Greenland) The Labour Party ( kl, Sulissartut Partiat, ) was a short-lived leftist political party in Greenland. The party was founded in early 1979 as the political wing of the ''Sulinermik Inuussutissarsiuteqartut Kattuffiat'' (SIK) trade union centre. SIK ...

, active 1979–1983

Grenada

Grenada United Labour Party The Grenada United Labour Party (GULP) is a political party in Grenada. History The party was founded by Eric Gairy in 1950. It contested the first elections held under universal suffrage in 1951, and won six of the eight seats. Nohlen, D (2005) ...

Guatemala

Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos The Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos (in Spanish language, Spanish: ''Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo – Alamos'') was an underground communist party in Guatemala. PGT-Alamos was formed as a regroupment of the few elements in the Alamos, Gu ...

, an underground communist party active circa 1980s *

Guatemalan Party of Labour – Communist Party :''See Communist party (disambiguation)#Labor.2C Labour, Communist party (disambiguation) for other similarly named groups.'' Guatemalan Party of Labour – Communist Party (in Spanish language, Spanish: ''Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo – Part ...

, an underground communist party active 1979–1983

Guyana

British Guiana Labour Party The British Guiana Labour Party (BGCP) was a political party in British Guiana. History The BGCP was formed in June 1946, with its leadership included Jung Bahadur Singh, J.A. Nicholson, Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow and Ashton Chase. It contested ...

, active 1946–1950 *

Guyana Labour Party The Guyana Labour Party (GLP) was a political party in Guyana. History The party was established in 1992 as a breakaway from the Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy,''Europa World Year'', Taylor & Francis Group, p1986 holding its first mee ...

, active circa 1990s

Hong Kong

Labour Party (Hong Kong) The Labour Party is a centre-left social democratic political party in Hong Kong established in 2011. The party was founded in 2011 by three veteran pro-democracy legislators to consolidate centre-left, pro-labour, pro-democracy voices in th ...

India

Independent Labour Party (India) The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The 'Training School for Entrance to Poli ...

, active circa 1936–1938 *

Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan was a political party in India. The party was founded by Singaravelu Chettiar on 1 May 1923 in Madras. This was the first May Day celebration in India. This was also the first time the red flag was used in Ind ...

, active 1923–1925 *

Labour Party (India) The Praja Rajyam Party was a political party in India. Formation The first public meeting was held by Chiranjeevi on 26 August 2008, at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. He addressed a gathering of about a million people and announced the party name ...

Indonesia

Labour Party (Indonesia, 1949) The Labour Party ( id, Partai Buruh) was a political party in Indonesia. It was formed on 25 December 1949 by a group of former Labour Party of Indonesia (PBI) members, who had disagreed with the merger of PBI into the Communist Party of Indonesia ...

, active 1949–1955 *

Labour Party of Indonesia The Labour Party of Indonesia ( id, Partai Buruh Indonesia, PBI) was a political party in Indonesia. Indonesian Labour Front The party was founded as a national trade union center, the Indonesian Labour Front (''Barisan Buruh Indonesia'', BBI), ...

, active 1945–1948 *

Labour Party (Indonesia, 1998) The Labour Party ( id, Partai Buruh) was a political party in Indonesia. It had its origins in the Indonesian Prosperous Laborers organization (SBSI), which in 1993 threw its support behind the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) as a vehicle for it ...

Labour Party (Indonesia, 2021) The Labour Party ( id, Partai Buruh) is a political party in Indonesia founded on 5 October 2021. The party was reformed from and is a continuation of the defunct 1998 Labour Party founded by Muchtar Pakpahan. The party formed after the 4th Labour ...

Ireland

Labour Party (Ireland) The Labour Party ( ga, Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, literally "Party of the Working People") is a centre-left and social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, ...

Isle of Man

Manx Labour Party The Manx Labour Party ( gv, Partee Obbraghys Vannin) is a political party on the Isle of Man that was founded in 1918. Policies The Manx Labour Party published a manifesto of policies in 2021. It proposed increasing government spending on educ ...

Israel

Italy

Labour Federation (Italy) The Labour Federation ( it, Federazione Laburista, FL) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's leader and founder was Valdo Spini. The FL was founded by members of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in November 1994, a few ...

, active 1994–1998 *

Labour Party (Italy) The Movement for the Labour Party ( it, Movimento per il Partito del Lavoro) was a socialism, socialist and trade union-inspired list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. It was formed in September 2012 by the merger of Social ...

, active since 2012

Jamaica

Jamaica Labour Party The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the People's National Party (PNP). While its name might suggest that it is a social democratic party (as is the case for "Labour" parties in seve ...

National Labour Party (Jamaica) The National Labour Party was a political party in Jamaica, founded by Ken Hill. Hill had been expelled from the People's National Party in 1952, accused of having advocated communism.Ameringer, Charles D. Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to ...

, active circa 1950s and 1960s

Japan

Japan Labour-Farmer Party The was a socialist political party in Japan between December 1926 and December 1928. During its existence, it occupied a centrist position in the divided socialist movement. Foundation The Japan Labour-Farmer Party was one of several prole ...

, active 1926–1928 *

Farmer-Labour Party The was a short-lived socialist political party in Japan. The party was the first of the proletarian parties that emerged in the country after the enactment of the Universal Manhood Suffrage Act of 1925. The party was banned by the Japanese gov ...

, active 1925

Korea

Labor Party (South Korea) The Labor Party () is a democratic socialist political party in South Korea. History After the New Progressive Party and the Socialist Party voted to unite in 2012, the Labor Party was officially formed the following year. It held its inter ...

Democratic Labor Party (South Korea) The Democratic Labor Party () was a progressive and nationalist political party in South Korea. It was founded in January 2000, in the effort to create a political wing for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and was considered more lef ...

Latvia

Workers' Party (Latvia) The Workers' Party ( lv, Darba partija, DP) was a political party in Latvia. History The party was established in 1920 and won six seats in the Constitutional Assembly elections that year, becoming the joint fourth-largest party in the Assembly. ...

, active 1920–1923 and 1997–2008

Liberia

Labor Party of Liberia The Labor Party of Liberia (LPL) is a political party in Liberia. It fielded candidates in the 11 October 2005 elections. LPL candidate Joseph Woah-Tee won 0.6% of the vote in the presidential poll. The party failed to win any seats in the Senat ...

Lithuania

Labour Party (Lithuania) The Labour Party ( lt, Darbo partija, DP) is a populism, populist List of political parties in Lithuania, political party in Lithuania. The party was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire businessman and member of Seimas Viktor Uspaskic ...

Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos demokratinė darbo partija, LDDP) was the renamed Communist Party of Lithuania. It was a political party in Lithuania in the 1990s, which claimed to be social-democratic. The youth organizati ...

, active 1989–2001

Malaysia

Labour Party of Malaya The Labour Party of Malaya ( ms, Parti Buruh Malaya; abbrev. LPM) was a political party in Malaya that was active between 1952 and 1969. It was originally formed as a confederation of state based labour parties known as the Pan-Malayan Labour P ...

, active 1952–1969

Malta

Labour Party (Malta) The Labour Party ( mt, Partit Laburista, PL), formerly known as the Malta Labour Party ( mt, Partit tal-Ħaddiema, MLP), is one of the two major political parties in Malta, along with the Nationalist Party. It sits on the centre-left of the ...

Mauritius

Labour Party (Mauritius) The Labour Party (french: Parti Travailliste, PTr) is a centre-left social-democratic political party in Mauritius. It is one of four main Mauritian political parties along, with the Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM), the Militant Socialist Mov ...

Mexico

Labor Party (Mexico) The Labor Party ( es, Partido del Trabajo, , PT; also known as the Workers Party) is a political party in Mexico. It was founded on 8 December 1990. The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya. History The party first participated in federal ...

Moldova

Labour Party (Moldova) The Labour Party ( ro, Partidul Muncii, PM) is a minor political party in Moldova led by Gheorghe Sima. History The party was established as the Labour Union (''Uniunea Muncii'') on 25 September 1999, and was registered on 12 November that year.< ...

Morocco

Labour Party (Morocco) The Labour Party (french: Parti Travailliste) was a political party in Morocco. Profile The party was founded at its first congress took place on 14 and 15 May 2005. The founders of the party included Abdelkrim Benatik, Omar Seghrouchni and Moha ...

Namibia

* South West African Labour Party, active circa 1970s

Netherlands

Labour Party (Netherlands) The Labour Party ( nl, Partij van de Arbeid, , abbreviated as ''PvdA'', or ''P van de A'', ) is a social-democratic political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's el ...

Central Democratic Labour Party The Central Democratic Labour Party (in Dutch: ''Centrale Democratische Arbeiderspartij'') was a political party in the Netherlands, which participated in the 1933 parliamentary election. The party mustered 182 votes, almost exclusively from Amst ...

, active 1933

New Caledonia

Labour Party (New Caledonia) The Labour Party (french: Parti travailliste, PT) is a New Caledonian political party established on 18 November 2007. It is radically pro-independence and backed by the trade union (USTKE). It is considered close to the French alterglobalizat ...

New Zealand

New Zealand Labour Party (1910) The original New Zealand Labour Party was a short-lived left-wing political party in New Zealand. It is a predecessor of the modern Labour Party. The original Labour Party was founded in 1910. It was based on the remnants of the Independent Po ...

, active 1910–1912 *

United Labour Party (New Zealand) The United Labour Party (ULP) of New Zealand was an early left-wing political party. Founded in 1912, it represented the more moderate wing of the labour movement. In 1916 it joined with other political groups to establish the modern Labour Par ...

, active 1912–1916 *

Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand) The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) was a left-wing political party in New Zealand in the 1940s. It was a splinter from the larger Labour Party, and was led by the prominent socialist John A. Lee. Party history The Democratic Labour Party origin ...

, active circa 1940s *

NewLabour Party The NewLabour Party was a centre-left political party in New Zealand that operated from 1989 to 2000. It was founded by Jim Anderton, an member of parliament (MP) and former president of the New Zealand Labour Party. NewLabour was established b ...

, active 1989–2000

Nigeria

Labour Party (Nigeria) The Labour Party (LP) is a social democratic political party in Nigeria. The party was created in 2002 and was previously known as the Party for Social Democracy (PSD) before changing to its current name the following year. Built on the ideology ...

Norway

Labour Party (Norway) The Labour Party ( nb, Arbeiderpartiet; nn, Arbeidarpartiet; A/Ap; se, Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party ( no, Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centr ...

Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway The Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway (in Norwegian ''Norges Socialdemokratiske Arbeiderparti'') was a Norwegian political party in the 1920s. Following the Labour Party's entry into the Comintern in 1919 its right wing left the party to ...

, active circa 1920s

Panama

Labor Party (Panama) The Labor Party ( es, Partido Laborista) was a Panamanian political party. The initiative to launch the Labor Party began in 1927. Founders of the party included Diógenes de la Rosa, Don Cristóbal Segundo and Domingo H. Turner. The party obtaine ...

, active 1925–1930

Papua New Guinea

Bougainville Labour Party Bougainville Labour Party (BLP) is a political party in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It was established ahead of the inaugural 2005 Bougainvillean general election, 2005 election by lawyer Thomas Tamusio and philosopher ...

PNG Labour Party The Papua New Guinea Labour Party was a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was launched in 2001 by the PNG Trade Union Congress, with Andrew Kandakasi as party president. In February 2002, Australian Labor Party president Greg Sword visited ...

People's Labour Party (Papua New Guinea) The People's Labour Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea. History It was founded in April 2001 by Madang businessman and former MP Peter Yama, who sought a return to politics after having lost his seat at the 1997 election. He pledge ...

Pakistan

Labour Party Pakistan The Labour Party Pakistan ( ur, لیبر پارٹی پاکستان, LPP) was a far-left political party and a leading labor union, closely allying associating with Fourth International. It claimed membership of 7,300 members in 2009. It origin ...

Philippines

Partido ng Manggagawa Partido Manggagawa or Labor Party is a political party in the Philippines. In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In ...

Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka The Labor Party Philippines, also known as the Workers' and Peasants' Party (WPP; this is their preferred acronym) and formerly known as the Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka (lit. Workers' and Farmers' Party; PMM) and the Lapiang Manggagawa ( ...

Poland

Labour Union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

Polish Labour Party-August 80 The Polish Labour Party - August 80 ''( pl, Polska Partia Pracy-Sierpień 80, PPP)'' was a minor left-wing political party in Poland, describing itself as socialist. It was created on 11 November 2001 as the Alternative – Labour Party (''Alter ...

, active 2001–2017 *

Labour Faction (1937) Stronnictwo Pracy ''( en, Labour Party)'' was a Polish Christian democratic political party, active from 1937 in the Second Polish Republic and later part of the Polish government in exile. Its founders and main activists were Wojciech Korfanty ...

, active 1937–1946 * Labor Party (Partia Pracy), active 1925–1930 *

Labour Faction (1989) The Labour Party ( pl, Stronnictwo Pracy, SP) is a minor political party in Poland. It was formally called the Christian-Democratic Labour Faction ''( pl, Chrześcijańsko-Demokratyczne Stronnictwo Pracy, ChDSP)'' between 1989 and 2000. History ...

, active 1989–2005

Puerto Rico

Labor Party (Puerto Rico) The Labor Party ( es, Partido Obrero), also known as the Socialist Worker's Party ( es, Partido Obrero Socialista), was a political party in Puerto Rico from 1899 to 1915. The party was founded on July 18, 1899 by Santiago Iglesias Pantín, an ...

, active 1899–1915

Romania

Labor Party (Romania) The Labor Party ( ro, Partidul Muncei,George Baiculescu, Georgeta Răduică, Neonila Onofrei, ''Publicațiile periodice românești (ziare, gazete, reviste). Vol. II: Catalog alfabetic 1907–1918. Supliment 1790–1906'', p. 668. Bucharest: Edit ...

Russia

Labour Party (Russia) Labour Party or Labor Party is a name used by many political parties. Many of these parties have links to the trade union movement or organised labour in general. Labour parties can exist across the political spectrum, but most are centre-left or l ...

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party The Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), also known simply as Labour, is a centre-left political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is currently in government in the country after winning six of the eleven seats in the 2022 general electio ...

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia Labour Party The Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) is a social democratic political party in Saint Lucia. It currently holds 13 of the 17 seats in the House of Assembly. History The party was established in 1949, backed by the Saint Lucia Workers Cooperative Un ...

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Unity Labour Party The Unity Labour Party (ULP) is a democratic socialist political party in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Currently the governing party, it is led by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.

Samoa

Western Samoa Labour Party The Western Samoa Labour Party (WSLP) was a political party in Samoa. It was founded on June 4, 1993, by To'alepai Toesulusulu Si'ueva, a former Minister of Health in the 1985 - 88 coalition government. The party opposed the HRPP and the 1991 co ...

, active circa 1990s

Senegal

Labour Party of Sine Saloum Labour Party of Sine Saloum (in French language, French: ''Parti travailliste du Sine Saloum'') was a political party in Sine-Saloum, Senegal. It existed around 1960. Sources

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, active circa 1960

Singapore

Labour Front The Labour Front is a defunct political party in Singapore that operated from 1955 to 1960. History The Labour Front was founded to contest the 1955 legislative elections by David Saul Marshall, Singapore's first chief minister and Lim Yew Hoc ...

Labour Party (Singapore) The Labour Party was a political party in Singapore. History The party was established on 23 March 1948 by several trade unionists.Labour Party (Slovakia) Labour Party ( sk, Strana práce) also known as Social Democracy in Slovakia ( sk, Sociálna demokracia na Slovensku) was a political party in the post-World War II Slovakia. The party was formed in 1946 by Social Democrats who opposed cooperation ...

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands Labour Party The Solomon Islands Labour Party is a political party in Solomon Islands. The party was founded in 1988 by the Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions after the leadership of the union split. Joses Tuhanuku, went on to lead the Labour Party, while ...

Labour Party (Solomon Islands) The Labour Party was a political party in the Solomon Islands. History The party was established by Honiara MP Peter Salaka in 1970.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific: Laos–Western Samoa'', Greenwood Press, p1001 ...

, active 1970–1971

South Africa

New Labour Party (South Africa) The New Labour Party (NLP) was a minor South African political party founded by Peter Marais via floor crossing legislation after he left the New National Party in some disrepute. The name was chosen to evoke the former Labour Party led by the ...

Labour Party (South Africa) The South African Labour Party ( af, Suid-Afrikaanse Arbeidersparty), was a South African political party formed in March 1910 in the newly created Union of South Africa following discussions between trade unions, the Transvaal Independent La ...

Labour Party (South Africa, 1969) The Labour Party of South Africa ( af, Arbeidersparty van Suid-Afrika) was a South African political party founded in 1969 and led for many years by Allan Hendrickse. Although avowedly opposed to apartheid, it participated in the Coloured Persons ...

Sri Lanka

Ceylon Labour Party The Ceylon Labour Party (CLP) was a political party in Sri Lanka. History The Ceylon Labour Party was formed in October 1928, with A. E. Gunasinha as president and Proctor Marshall Perera as secretary. Its executive committee included C. H. Z. F ...

Suriname

Surinamese Labour Party The Surinamese Labour Party ( nl, Surinaamse Partij van de Arbeid, SPA) is a political party in Suriname. In the 2010 legislative elections, the party was part of the New Front for Democracy and Development that won 31.65% of the popular vot ...

Switzerland

Swiss Party of Labour The Swiss Party of Labour (german: Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz; french: Parti Suisse du Travail – Parti Ouvrier et Populaire; it, Partito Svizzero del Lavoro – Partito Operaio e Popolare; rm, Partida svizra da la lavur) is a communist pa ...

Tanzania

Tanzania Labour Party The Tanzania Labour Party (TLP) is a political party in Tanzania. Electoral performance At the 2000 legislative elections, the party won 3 out of 269 seats in the National Assembly. In the presidential elections of the same day, its candidate Au ...

Taiwan

Labor Party (Taiwan) The Labor Party is a left-wing political party in Taiwan, founded on 29 March 1989 by a striking trade union in Xinpu, Hsinchu County. It is part of the wider labor movement in Taiwan, and advocates for labor reforms and the redistribution of ...

Thailand

Labour Party (Thailand) Labour Party is a political party in Thailand. History Labour Party (1968-1971) The Labour Party was founded on December 23, 1968 by Kan Chueakeaw as leader and Weera Thanomkiang as secretary-general. On February 10, 1969 the Labour Party lo ...

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Labour Party The Trinidad Labour Party was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago. Formed in 1934 when the Trinidad Workingmen's Association changed its name, it was the country's first party. History The party was originally a trade union named the Trinid ...

* Democratic Labour Party *

United Labour Front The United Labour Front (ULF) was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago and the main opposition party between 1976 and 1986. It was a successor to the Democratic Labour Party and the Workers and Farmers Party. History The party was establishe ...

Social Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago The Social Democratic Labour Party was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Tri ...

Caribbean National Labour Party The Caribbean National Labour Party was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Tr ...

Turkey

Labour Party (Turkey) The Labour Party (in Turkish: ''Emek Partisi'', EMEP) is a communist party in Turkey. Its chairman is Ercüment Akdeniz. The party was founded as ''Emek Partisi'' (Labour Party, EP) in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was re ...

Ukraine

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United Kingdom

Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all gen ...

, one of two main political parties in the United Kingdom **

Scottish Labour Party Scottish Labour ( gd, Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, sco, Scots Labour Pairty; officially the Scottish Labour Party) is a social democratic political party in Scotland. It is an autonomous section of the UK Labour Party. From their peak o ...

, division of the party for Scotland **

Welsh Labour Welsh Labour ( cy, Llafur Cymru) is the branch of the United Kingdom Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 1922 ...

, division of the party for Wales **

London Labour London Labour is the devolved, regional part of the Labour Party in Greater London. It is the largest political party in London, currently holding a majority of the executive mayoralties, a majority of local councils, council seats and parli ...

, division of the party for London **

Labour Party in Northern Ireland The Labour Party in Northern Ireland (LPNI, ga, Páirtí an Lucht Oibre i dTuaisceart Éireann) is the UK Labour Party's regional constituency organisation that operates in Northern Ireland. The Labour Party is not a registered political part ...

, the unregistered division of the party for Northern Ireland *

Labour – Federation of Labour Groups Labour – Federation of Labour Groups is the formally registered name of a collection of political organisations in Northern Ireland who aspire to become part of the Labour Party of Great Britain. Background The British Labour Party did not org ...

Newtownabbey Labour Party The Newtownabbey Labour Party is a minor political party based in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. The party originated as the Newtownabbey branch of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP). It left its parent organisation in 1974, in opposition ...

Republican Labour Party The Republican Labour Party (RLP) was a political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt. They had previously been the sole Northern Ireland representatives of the Socialist R ...

Social Democratic and Labour Party The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) ( ga, Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Ireland ...

Socialist Labour Party (UK) The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party was established in 1996 and is led by Arthur Scargill, a former Labour Party member and the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. T ...

Former

Belfast Labour Party The Belfast Labour Party was a political party in Belfast, Ireland from 1892 until 1924. It was founded in 1892 by a conference of Belfast Independent Labour Party, Independent Labour activists and trade unionists. Labour ran the Ulster Unionis ...

Communist Labour Party (Scotland) :''See Communist party (disambiguation) for other similarly named groups.'' The Communist Labour Party was a Communist Party in Scotland. It was formed in September 1920 by the Scottish Workers' Committee and the Scottish section of the Communis ...

Democratic Labour Party (UK, 1972) Democratic Labour was a minor political party operating in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. It was formed by the Labour MP Dick Taverne when his Constituency Labour Party (CLP) in the Lincoln constituency asked him to stand down as its candidate ...

Democratic Labour Party (UK, 1998) The Democratic Labour Party was a small British left-wing political party in Walsall, sometimes known as the Walsall Democratic Labour Party. It was founded as a breakaway from the Labour Party after left-wing members were expelled in the mid-9 ...

, a minor party in Walsall, England *

Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates ...

Irish Labour Party in Northern Ireland The Labour Party ( ga, Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, literally "Party of the Working People") is a centre-left and social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, ...

Labour Party of Northern Ireland The Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI) was the name of two distinct political parties in Northern Ireland, the first formed in 1985 by a group around Paddy Devlin, a former Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor and Northern Ireland ...

National Labour Organisation The National Labour Organisation, also known as the National Labour Committee or simply as National Labour, was a British political group formed after the 1931 creation of the National Government to co-ordinate the efforts of the supporters of ...

Northern Ireland Labour Party The Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) was a political party in Northern Ireland which operated from 1924 until 1987. Origins The roots of the NILP can be traced back to the formation of the Belfast Labour Party in 1892. William Walker stoo ...

, in Northern Ireland *

Scottish Labour Party (1888) The Scottish Labour Party (SLP), also known as the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, was formed by Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, the first Socialism, socialist Member of Parliament, MP in the Parliament of the United ...

United States

Labor Party (United States, 1996) The Labor Party is an American Social democracy, social democratic political party advocating workers' interests and active in the state of South Carolina. The party was formed in 1996 by the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union ...

Socialist Labor Party of America The Socialist Labor Party (SLP)"The name of this organization shall be Socialist Labor Party". Art. I, Sec. 1 of thadopted at the Eleventh National Convention (New York, July 1904; amended at the National Conventions 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924 ...

, established 1876

Former

American Labor Party The American Labor Party (ALP) was a political party in the United States established in 1936 that was active almost exclusively in the state of New York. The organization was founded by labor leaders and former members of the Socialist Party of ...

, 1936–1956 *

American Labor Party (1932) The American Labor Party (ALP) was the final name of a De Leonist splinter group in the US in the early 1930s. The ALP had split from the Industrial Union League, which in turn had split from the Socialist Labor Party in the late 1920s. The lea ...

, active until 1935 *

Communist Labor Party of North America The Communist Labor Party of the United States of North America (CLP) or (CLP(USNA)) was an Anti-revisionism, anti-revisionist Communism, communist party that was part of the New Communist movement in the United States. The CLP was founded in 19 ...

, 1953–1974 *

Farmer–Labor Party The first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. Economic dislocation caused by American entry into World War I put agricultural prices and workers' wages into imbalance with rapidly escalating retail price ...

, 1918–1944 *

Greenback Labor Party The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party and the Greenback Labor Party) was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active between 1874 and 1889. The party ran ...

, active 1874–1889 *

Labor Party (Hawaii) The Labor Party was a short-lived political party in the Territory of Hawaii. It was founded to support William Charles Achi in his campaign for Mayor of Honolulu The mayor of Honolulu is the chief executive officer of the City and County of Ho ...

, 1908 *

Labor Party (United States, 19th century) Labor Party was the name or partial name of a number of United States political parties which were organized during the 1870s and 1880s. History The Social Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America was formed in . By 1877 the party changed ...

, several parties *

Labor Party of the United States The Labor Party of the United States was a short-lived political party formed by several state-level labor parties upon the encouragement of Chicago Federation of Labor leader John Fitzpatrick. It was formed in the immediate aftermath of World ...

, active circa 1919 *

Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party (FL) was a left-wing American political party in Minnesota between 1918 and 1944. Largely dominating Minnesota politics during the Great Depression, it was one of the most successful statewide third party movem ...

, 1918–1944 *

Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party, a radical split from the Socialist Labor Party in the United States. RSLP was formed in 1881 by anarchist-oriented elements of the SLP that had rallied around 'Revolutionary Clubs'. In 1883 it merged with oth ...

Union Labor Party (California) The Union Labor Party was a San Francisco, California working class political party of the first decade of the 20th century. The organization, which endorsed the doctrine of nativism, rose to prominence in both the labor movement and urban politi ...

, active 1901–1912 *

U.S. Labor Party The U.S. Labor Party (USLP) was a political party formed in 1973 by the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).

, a short-lived LaRouchite political party active circa 1970s

Vanuatu

Vanuatu Labour Party The Vanuatu Labour Party ( bi, Vanuatu Leba Pati; french: Parti Travailliste du Vanuatu) is a political party in Vanuatu. The party was established on 3 June 1987. It was founded on the initiative of various trade union organizations in order to ...

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Labour Party Zimbabwe Labour Party is a political party in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, ...