In October 1972 he resigned his seat to force a by-election in which he fought as a Democratic Labour candidate against the official party candidate.

In 1981, as the Labour Party tore itself apart in a civil war, Dewar was almost deselected in his constituency by hard-left activists, but he fought off the move.

Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.

Labour fought a professional campaign that at one point scared the Tories into thinking they might lose.

In 1954, Gaitskell beat Bevan in a hard fought contest to be the Treasurer of the Labour Party.

This election took place shortly after the Munich Agreement and the Labour candidate Patrick Gordon-Walker was persuaded to step down to allow a unified challenge to the Conservatives ; A. D. Lindsay, the Master of Balliol College fought as an ' Independent Progressive ' candidate.

The controversy led to a poor performance when he fought for the Labour leadership on Harold Wilson's resignation.

In 1970, he fought Hendon North as a Labour Party candidate.

A year later in 1984, Evans died and Arbuthnot fought the resulting by-election, but he was again defeated by the Labour candidate, Ann Clwyd.

In February 2000 he resigned his membership of the Labour Party, citing its treatment of Ken Livingstone, and in support of Livingstone he fought unsuccessfully for a seat on the London Assembly as an Independent Green Left candidate.

The PDS fought the election in an alliance with the new western-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( WASG ), under the new name The Left Party. PDS, with Gysi at times sharing a platform with WASG leader Oskar Lafontaine, former finance minister and formerly party leader of the SPD.

British author George Orwell fought alongside members of the Independent Labour Party as part of POUM militias ; he recounted the experience in his book Homage to Catalonia.

The Nationalists, led by George Borg Olivier won the 1962 elections, fought largely over the issue of independence and having as a backdrop a second politico-religious crisis this time between the Church and the Labour Party.

The Unionist Party favoured continuance of the union with Britain ( along with its subordinate, the Ulster Unionist Labour Association, who fought as ' Labour Unionists ').

In 1967 he fought over the office of vice president of the National Union of Students against Jack Straw ( later Labour Party MP and Secretary of State for Justice of the UK ).

He was the Labour Party candidate for Colchester at the 1966 UK General Election, and fought the 1968 Oldham West by-election after the resignation of Labour MP Leslie Hale but lost to Conservative candidate Bruce Campbell.

Ruthanasia was controversial as the National Party had fought the 1990 election on a manifesto promising " The Decent Society " and implicitly repudiating the radicalism of the fourth Labour government.

Being one of the leaders of the Labour Party, he fought hard to make the land reform as radical as possible.

In contrast to Fianna Fáil, the government parties of Fine Gael and the Labour Party fought the general election on their record in government.

Berenger agreed to the terms. The MSM / MMM coalition fought the elections against then government coalition of Labour Party and the Social Democrats.

The term was later used to describe two later British elections, the 1918 general election, fought at the end of the First World War and resulting in the huge victory of David Lloyd George's wartime coalition government, and the 1945 general election, held during the closing stages of the Second World War, where the Labour Party candidate, Clement Attlee, won by a landslide.

However, the Montoneros waited until after the death of Perón in July 1974 to react, with the exception of the assassination of José Ignacio Rucci, general secretary of the CGT ( General Confederation of Labour ) on 25 September 1973, and some other military actions.

Cambridge, UK: CUP Archive, 1973, pp 10 </ ref > Discussions on the current state of communism and abstract ideas such as freedom and identity were also becoming more common ; soon, non-party publications began appearing, such as the trade union daily < i > Prace </ i > ( Labour ).

In accepting that these forms of productions were there to stay, scholars began using the term informal sector, which is credited to the British anthropologist Keith Hart in a study on Ghana in 1973 but also alluded to by the International Labour Organization in a widely read study on Kenya in 1972.

He became the Labour Party Party leader on September 13, 1966 and served as the Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives from February 15, 1967 until May 11, 1973 and again a Member of the House of Representatives from February 23, 1967 until May 11, 1973.

Den Uyl's Labour Party won the 1973 elections in alliance with the progressive liberal Democrats 66 and radical Christian Political Party of Radicals, but failed to achieve a majority in parliament.

During this time he served as Minister for Education ( 1959 – 1965 ), Minister for Industry and Commerce ( 1965 – 1966 ), Minister for Labour ( 1966 – 1969 ) and Minister for Foreign Affairs ( 1969 – 1973 ).

To the surprise of many, he appointed Richie Ryan rather than Garret FitzGerald as his Minister for Finance when the Labour Party leader, Brendan Corish, declined the position in 1973.

At the Labour conference on 1 October 1973, he said, " I warn you that there are going to be howls of anguish from those rich enough to pay over 75 % on their last slice of earnings ".

After the 1973 general election Fine Gael came to power in a coalition government with the Labour Party with Liam Cosgrave as Taoiseach.

Only a small section of these road schemes had been implemented by the time Labour gained control in the 1973 Greater London Council elections, and the new administration abandoned the road building plans in favour of public transport and traffic management.

During this period of legality, the UDA committed a large number of attacks using the name Ulster Freedom Fighters, including the assassination of Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) politician Paddy Wilson in 1973.

( 11 January 1910 – 20 November 1984 ) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party and Prime Minister of Norway in 1971 – 1972 and 1973 – 1976.

Costello went on to serve as Attorney General of Ireland in the 1973 – 1977 National Coalition of Fine Gael and the Labour Party.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election in Dublin South – West and lost again in the 1976 by-election in the same constituency, to Labour Party's Brendan Halligan.

The council was controlled by the Labour Party from 1973, when the shadow council was elected in preparation for the 1974 merger, until the 2008 local elections, when the Conservatives gained control, ending 35 years of Labour rule.

He more than doubled his vote in the general election of 1973, which brought Fine Gael to power as part of the National Coalition with the Labour Party.

In 1973, she was selected as Labour candidate for Lincoln, which the party wanted to win back from dissident ex-Labour MP Dick Taverne.

* Hero of Socialist Labour ( 1973 )

Govan was a Labour seat ( although Sillars ' wife Margo MacDonald had won it for the SNP in a by-election previously, in 1973 ), but Sillars won a dramatic victory.

Other periods of the Labour Party's leadership of the national government have been 1971-1972, 1973 – 1981, 1986 – 1989, 1990 – 1997, 2000 – 2001 and since 2005.

As a result, the Norman Kirk Labour Government prevented the Springboks from touring during 1973.

In 1973, Fianna Fáil were ousted after sixteen years in government when the national coalition of Fine Gael and the Labour Party came to power.