Labour Party

Labour Party or Labor Party is a name used by many political parties. These political parties are generally left-wing or centre-left, usually with nominal commitments to social democracy or democratic socialism.

Political parties by this name include:

Africa

Burkina Faso

• Party of Labour of Burkina, active 1990–1996
• Voltaic Labour Party, active c. 1970

South Africa

• Labour Party (South Africa)
• Labour Party (South Africa, 1969)
• Labour Party (South Africa, 2024)
• Natal Labour Party
• New Labour Party (South Africa)
• Transvaal Independent Labour Party

Elsewhere in Africa

• MPLA, formerly known as the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party
• Independent Labor Party, Burundi
• Congolese Party of Labour, Republic of the Congo
• Labor Party of Liberia
• Labour Party (Mauritius), one of the two major parties in Mauritius
• Labour Party (Morocco)
• South West African Labour Party, Namibia, active circa 1970s
• Labour Party (Nigeria)
• Labour Party of Sine Saloum, Senegal, active circa 1960
• Tanzania Labour Party
• Zimbabwe Labour Party

Asia

Armenia

• All Armenian Labour Party
• United Labour Party (Armenia)

India

• Labour Party (India)
• Independent Labour Party (India), active circa 1936–1938
• Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan, active 1923–1925

Indonesia

• Labour Party of Indonesia, active 1945–1948
• Labour Party (Indonesia, 1949), active 1949–1955
• Labour Party (Indonesia, 1998) active 1998–2021
• Labour Party (Indonesia, 2021)

Japan

• Japan Labour-Farmer Party, active 1926–1928
• Farmer-Labour Party, active 1925

Korea

Main article: Nodongdang (disambiguation)

• Labor Party (South Korea)
• Democratic Labor Party (South Korea)

Philippines

• Partido ng Manggagawa
• Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka

Singapore

• Labour Front
• Labour Party (Singapore)

Elsewhere in Asia

• Georgian Labour Party
• Labour Party (Hong Kong)
• Israeli Labor Party
• Labour Party of Malaya, active 1952–1969
• Labour Party Pakistan
• Ceylon Labour Party, Sri Lanka
• Labor Party (Taiwan)
• Labour Party (Thailand)
• Labour Party (Turkey)

Europe

Croatia

• Croatian Labourists – Labour Party
• Croatian Labour Party

Italy

• Labour Federation (Italy), active 1994–1998
• Labour Party (Italy), active since 2012

Lithuania

• Labour Party (Lithuania)
• Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, active 1989–2001

Netherlands

• Labour Party (Netherlands)
• Central Democratic Labour Party, active 1933

Norway

• Labour Party (Norway)
• Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway, active circa 1920s

Poland

• Labour Union (Poland)
• Polish Labour Party-August 80, active 2001–2017
• Labour Faction (1937), active 1937–1946
• Labor Party (Partia Pracy), active 1925–1930
• Labour Faction (1989), active 1989–2005

Ukraine

• Labour Party Ukraine
• Labour Ukraine

United Kingdom and its territories

Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Active

• Labour Party (UK), one of two main political parties in the United Kingdom, primarily active in Great Britain
  • Scottish Labour Party, division of the party for Scotland
  • Welsh Labour, division of the party for Wales
  • London Labour, division of the party for London
  • Labour Party in Northern Ireland, the unregistered division of the party for Northern Ireland
• Labour – Federation of Labour Groups, Northern Ireland
• Newtownabbey Labour Party, Northern Ireland
• Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland
• Socialist Labour Party (UK)

Defunct

• Belfast Labour Party, Northern Ireland
• Communist Labour Party (Scotland)
• Democratic Labour Party (UK, 1972)
• Democratic Labour Party (UK, 1998), a minor party in Walsall, England
• Independent Labour Party
• Irish Labour Party in Northern Ireland
• Labour Party of Northern Ireland
• National Labour Organisation
• Northern Ireland Labour Party
• Republican Labour Party, Northern Ireland
• Scottish Labour Party (1888)

UK territories

• Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
• Gibraltar Labour Party, active 2003–2005
• Manx Labour Party

Elsewhere in Europe

• Belarusian Labour Party
• Belgian Labour Party, active 1885–1940
• Estonian Labour Party, active 1917–1932
• Georgian Labour Party
• Labour Party (Ireland)
• Workers' Party (Latvia), active 1920–1923 and 1997–2008
• Labour Party (Malta)
• Labour Party (Moldova)
• Labor Party (Romania)
• Labour Party (Slovakia)
• Swiss Party of Labour
• Labour Party (Turkey)
• Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit (People's Socialist Movement of Germany/Labour Party), a neo-Nazi Strasserite party active in West Germany 1971–1982

North America

Barbados

• Barbados Labour Party
• Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)

Canada

• Canadian Labour Party, active 1917–1929
• Labour candidates and parties in Canada, active 1870s–1960s
• Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Farmer-Labour-Socialist), active 1932–1961
• Labor-Progressive Party, the legal political organization of the Communist Party of Canada active 1943–1959
• North American Labour Party, an unregistered party active circa 1970s
• Cape Breton Labour Party, active 1970–1984

Guatemala

• Guatemalan Party of Labour
• Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos, an underground communist party active circa 1980s
• Guatemalan Party of Labour – Communist Party, an underground communist party active 1979–1983

Jamaica

• Jamaica Labour Party
• National Labour Party (Jamaica), active circa 1950s and 1960s

Trinidad and Tobago

• Trinidad Labour Party
• Democratic Labour Party
• United Labour Front
• Social Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago
• Caribbean National Labour Party

United States and its territories

Active

• Socialist Labor Party of America, established 1876

Defunct

• American Labor Party, 1936–1956
• American Labor Party (1932), active until 1935
• Communist Labor Party of North America, 1953–1974
• Farmer–Labor Party, 1918–1944
• Greenback Labor Party, active 1874–1889
• Labor Party (Hawaii), 1908
• Labor Party (Puerto Rico), active 1899–1915
• Labor Party (United States, 19th century), several parties
• Labor Party of the United States, active circa 1919
• Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party, 1918–1944
• Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party
• Union Labor Party (California), active 1901–1912
• U.S. Labor Party, a short-lived LaRouchite political party active circa 1970s
• Labor Party (United States, 1996), 1996-2007

Elsewhere in North America

• Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party
• Labour Party (Bahamas)
• Progressive Labour Party (Bermuda)
• Labour Party People's Crusade, Curaçao
• Dominica Labour Party
• Labour Party (Greenland), active 1979–1983
• Grenada United Labour Party
• Labor Party (Mexico)
• Labor Party (Panama), active 1925–1930
• Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party
• Saint Lucia Labour Party
• Unity Labour Party, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Oceania

Australia

• Australian Labor Party
  • ACT Labor Party
  • New South Wales Labor Party
  • Queensland Labor Party
  • South Australian Labor Party
  • Tasmanian Labor Party
  • Territory Labor Party
  • Victorian Labor Party
  • Western Australian Labor Party
• Democratic Labour Party (Australia, 1980)
• Democratic Labour Party (historical)
• Progressive Labour Party (Australia), active 1996 to 2021
• Industrial Socialist Labor Party, active late-1910s and early 1920s

New Zealand

• New Zealand Labour Party
• New Zealand Labour Party (1910), active 1910–1912
• United Labour Party (New Zealand), active 1912–1916
• Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand), active circa 1940s
• NewLabour Party, active 1989–2000

Papua New Guinea

• Bougainville Labour Party
• PNG Labour Party
• People's Labour Party (Papua New Guinea)

Solomon Islands

• Solomon Islands Labour Party
• Labour Party (Solomon Islands), active 1970–1971

Elsewhere in Oceania

• Fiji Labour Party
• Labour Party (New Caledonia)
• Western Samoa Labour Party, active circa 1990s
• Vanuatu Labour Party

South America

Brazil

• Brazilian Labour Party (historical), 1945–1965
• Democratic Labour Party (Brazil), since 1979
• Brazilian Labour Party (current), since 1979
• Brazilian Labour Renewal Party, since 1994
• Avante (political party), since 2017, Labour Party of Brazil, 1989–2017
• National Labour Party (1945-1965)
• Podemos (Brazil), since 2016, National Labour Party, 1995–2016
• Act (Brazil), since 2021, Christian Labour Party, 2000–2021
• Renovator Labour Party, 1985–1993
• Social Labour Party, 1947–1965
• Orienting Labour Party, 1945–1951

Guyana

• British Guiana Labour Party, active 1946–1950
• Guyana Labour Party, active circa 1990s

Elsewhere in South America

• Labour Party (Argentina)
• Labor Party (Panama), active 1925–1930
• Surinamese Labour Party

See also

• Labour government (disambiguation), a list of several Labour governments
• List of Labour parties
• Labour Party leadership election (disambiguation)
• Party of Labour (disambiguation)
• Workers' Party (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Labor Party
• All pages with titles containing Labour Party