Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

The Antigua Labour Party has seven seats in the House of Representatives.

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The ALP predates both the British Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party in party formation, government, and policy implementation.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

Both the Barbados Labour Party and the Democratic Labour Party have formed the government in the elections since 1961.

In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

A major long-term consequence of the Third Reform Act was the rise of Lib-Lab candidates, in the absence of any committed Labour Party.

In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.

The Labour Party benefited the most from this huge change in the British electorate, forming its first minority government in 1924.

In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.

In the February 1974 general election the Conservative government of Edward Heath won a plurality of votes cast, but the Labour Party gained a plurality of seats due to the Ulster Unionist MPs refusing to support the Conservatives after the Northern Ireland Sunningdale Agreement.

Fine Gael is generally considered to be more on the political right in comparison to its more centrist rival, Fianna Fáil, but Fine Gael has never governed Ireland without the Labour Party, a social-democratic party on the centre-left of Irish politics.

Historically, Fianna Fáil has been seen as to the left of Fine Gael and to the right of the Labour Party and is generally seen as a classic " catch all " populist party-representing a broad range of people from all social classes with the belief in the coincidence of economic growth and social progress.

Speer, allied with Fritz Sauckel, the General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labour from 1942, generally won these battles.

Since the new school year generally starts right after Labour Day, families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer.

Labour economics can generally be seen as the application of microeconomic or macroeconomic techniques to the labour market.

Criticisms such as this have generally been countered by Conservatives making similar claims about members of the Labour Party's group in the European Parliament.

More generally, some sort of international regulation of transnational corporations is called for, such as the enforcement of the International Labour Organization's labor standards.

Jackson was generally considered to be a traditional left-winger, often disagreeing with the dominant Blairite governing Third Way faction in the Labour Party.

The scandal rocked the Conservative government, and was generally held to have been among the causes of its defeat by Labour at the 1964 election.

The bill had a difficult Parliamentary passage during which the Labour party generally abstained, leaving the Conservatives to vote for or against their own government.

He was generally associated with the centrist General Zionists and later sided with neither Labour Zionism on the left nor Revisionist Zionism on the right.

This was the high point of a political career which was low-key but generally successful ; though she endured controversies over select committee membership and over allegations of strong arm tactics with Labour dissenters over military action in Afghanistan.

Over the term of the 1999-2008 Labour government, social statistics for Maori and Pacific islanders did generally improve, however the statistics for white New Zealanders showed a greater improvement, resulting in the ' gaps ' actually increasing.

Maxton was chairman of the ILP from 1926 to 1931, and from 1934 to 1939 ; he was generally seen as the symbol of the ILP after its break from Labour in 1932.

These funds, also known as Retail Venture Capital or Labour Sponsored Investment Funds ( LSIF ), are generally sponsored by labor unions and offer tax breaks from government to encourage retail investors to purchase the funds.

Most of the PSU members and a part of the French and Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CFDT ) trade union – generally known in France as the non-Marxist, " Second Left " – followed him.

From 1950 until 2010 Formby formed part of the constituency of Crosby, The MP for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

The MP for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party ; prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MPs elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

From 1950 until 2010 Little Crosby was within the boundaries of the Crosby constituency, whose MP from 1997 till 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

From 1950 until 2010 Waterloo was within the boundaries of the Crosby constituency, whose MP from 1997 till 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold, like its predecessor seat, with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

He generally allied himself with right-wing Liberals critical of their party's support for the Labour minority governments, joining with Sir John Simon in becoming a ' Liberal National ' upon the formation of the National Government in 1931.

The General Jewish Labour Bund of Lithuania, Poland and Russia (, Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland ), generally called The Bund (, from the meaning federation or union ) or the Jewish Labour Bund, was a secular Jewish socialist party in the Russian Empire, active between 1897 and 1920.

This group opposed what they saw as a leftward shift in Labour policy, the increasing prominence within the party of Tony Benn, and the involvement of trade unions in choosing the leader of the Labour Party.

Further, they opposed the creation of an electoral college to elect the leader of the Party, who had previously been elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party – in particular, the arrangement of block voting by constituency parties and trade unions, with the total votes of a constituency party or trade union being given to a candidate based on a first-past-the-post within that CLP or union, or changed at the discretion of delegates ( similar to primary elections in the United States ).

The CDA had the support of its smaller coalition partner, the CU ( ChristenUnie ), but the third party in government, PvdA ( Labour ), opposed.

On 8 July 1970, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, but resigned in 1972 because he supported entry to the Common Market, while the party opposed it.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

What had been the Empire's most loyal dominion became a dissenter as it opposed efforts the first and second British Labour governments to trust the League's framework of arbitration and collective security agreements.

He also did much to ensure that Labour opposed the Heath government's bid to enter the Common Market — forcing Wilson's hand by making his personal opposition clear without consulting the Party Leader.

In 2003, he revealed he had voted for Labour and admired what they had done for health and education but distanced himself from the Labour government over Tony Blair ’ s support for George W. Bush and Britain ’ s involvement in the Iraq War, which he strongly opposed, although he continued to believe Blair was a man of conscience.

In 2009, Polish politician Michał Kamiński was attacked by the Labour Party ( UK ), and some British journalists, for having opposed a national apology for the Jedwabne massacre in 2001.

Fine Gael and the Labour Party opposed the referendum when it transpired that Fianna Fáil could win up to 80 or 90 seats in a 144 seat Dáil if the motion was passed.

However, Fine Gael, the Labour Party, the Green Party, the Socialist Party and Ahern's coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, all opposed the idea, as did some Oireachtas members from Fianna Fáil.

Among the groups who opposed the constitution were supporters of Fine Gael and the Labour Party, Unionists, and some independents and feminists.

World War I – the Labour Party strongly opposed conscription, and a number of its leaders were jailed for their stand against it.

All of these problems had to be faced by a minority Labour Government, in the face of a Labour Party haunted by memories of past " betrayal " and congenitally opposed to spending cuts imposed by foreign bankers.

These developments were of key importance for domestic UK politics – as recently as the early 1980s large elements of the Labour Party had been opposed to British membership of the EC, whereas the Conservatives under Harold Macmillan ( 1957-1963 ) and Edward Heath ( 1970-1974 ) had favoured joining.

The legislation was introduced in the second Wim Kok-led Purple government, but it was unable to get a two-thirds majority because the Labour Party, whose minister De Vries had initiated the reform, rejected the legislation, because they were opposed the model of election proposed by De Graaf.

The charges that the Stormont seats ( as opposed to local council wards ) were gerrymandered against Nationalists is disputed by historians ( since the number of Nationalists elected under the two systems barely changed ), though it is agreed that losses under the change to single-member constituency boundaries were suffered by independent unionists, the Liberals and the Northern Ireland Labour Party.

Savage initially opposed the formation of the 1910 New Zealand Labour Party as he viewed the grouping as insufficiently socialistic.

Similarly, affiliation to the Labour Party was opposed on the grounds that communists should not work with ' reformist ' Social Democratic parties.

In industry they now opposed strike action and supported the Joint Production Committees, which aimed to increase productivity, and supported the National Government that was led by Winston Churchill ( Conservative ) and Clement Attlee ( Labour ).