The National Labour Front (NLF) was a political party in
Guyana
Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
.
History
The NLF was established by
Lionel Luckhoo
Sir Lionel Alfred Luckhoo (2 March 1914 – 12 December 1997) was a Guyanese politician, diplomat, and well-known lawyer, famed for his 245 consecutive successful defences in murder cases. He was the brother of the last Governor-General of G ...
in 1956 after a split in the
United Democratic Party.
Odeen Ishmael
Odeen Ishmael (January 29, 1948 – January 5, 2019) was a career Guyanese diplomat.
Personal life
Ishmael traces his ancestry back to what are now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. He has two children with his wife Evangeline: Safr ...
(2002
Cheddi Jagan - Glimpses of an Internationalist
/ref> Luckhoo was persuaded to establish the party by wealthy anti-communist Indo-Guyanese
Indo-Guyanese or Indian-Guyanese, are people of Indian origin who are Guyanese nationals tracing their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginnin ...
, and it ran on an anti-independence platform, opposing the People's Progressive Party.[
In the 1957 general elections it was the only party to nominate a candidate in all 14 Legislative Council seats,][ and had a large campaign budget.][ The party received 12% of the vote, winning only a single seat in the North Western District constituency, taken by ]Stephen Campbell
Stephen Campbell was an Arawakan Guyanese politician and political activist, and the first Amerindian member of Parliament in Guyanese history.
Biography
Stephen Joseph Campbell was born to Tiburtio A. Campbell and his wife, Maria dos Santos, ...
,[1957 Elections]
GECOM who became the first Amerindian member of the Guyanese parliament.
The party did not run in the 1961 elections, but returned to contest the 1964 elections. However, it received only 177 votes and failed to win a seat.Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...
(2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', pp366-368 [Nohlen, p365]
References
Defunct political parties in Guyana
Indian diaspora in Guyana
Labour parties
1956 establishments in British Guiana
Political parties established in 1956
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