His last four years as leader are widely seen as one of the Labour Party's weaker periods.

A coalition government, which would last until 2007, was formed between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, with Donald Dewar as First Minister.

While Labour Day parades and picnics are organised by unions, many Canadians regard Labour Day as the Monday of the last long weekend of summer.

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.

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

The last minority government was led by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for eight months after the February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament.

SLD formed a coalition with Labour Union before the 2001 Polish election and won it overwhelmingly at last by capturing about 5. 3 million votes, 42 % of the whole and won 200 of 460 seats in the Sejm and 75 of 100 in the Senate.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

The social reforms of the last century continued into the 20th with the Labour Party being formed in 1900.

On 11 June 1942 he made his last-ever speech in the House of Commons, and he cast his last vote in the Commons on 18 February 1943 as one of the 121 MPs ( 97 Labour ) condemning the Government for its failure to back the Beveridge Report.

* Iona Abbey, last resting place of many kings of Scotland, and Labour leader John Smith

In 1968 the Conservatives formed a majority for the first and last time to date until they lost control to Labour in 1971.

In the last election in 2012, Labour took control after a period in which no party had overall control.

In 1963, at the request of the Dutch Labour Party, he rejoined the Senate for a second term which would last until his resignation in 1977.

Labour was last in government from 1999 to 2008 with Helen Clark as party leader and Prime Minister.

In 1987 Labour won a first-past-the-post election for the last time ( the mixed member proportional system was introduced in 1996 ).

The Liberal Democrats, as the only other party with a large number of seats, used to call their leadership while in opposition the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team, but during the last Labour government, they started to use the term ' Shadow Cabinet '.

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 ".

Coal shortages 1944-45 meant that thousands of the last wartime conscripts were drafted into coal mines ( the " Bevin Boys ", thus named for the wartime Minister of Labour ).

The last Labour Paymaster General was Tessa Jowell, who was also previously simultaneously responsible for the 2012 Olympics.

Activity declined greatly after Gerry Fitt, then the party's sole Stormont MP, left the party to form the Republican Labour Party in 1964, with the party's last known contest being two seats on Newry and Mourne District Council at the 1973 local elections.

By August 2009, various opinion polls gave the party 10 % support, but they lost most of their voters to the Labour Party during the last days of the election.

The turnabout in his life was rapid and profound: Lead Belly was released from prison on August 1, 1934 ; his schedule for the last week of December that year included performances for the MLA gathering in Philadelphia, for an afternoon tea in Bryn Mawr, and for an informal gathering of professors from Columbia and NYU.

Farquhar Oliver, last UFO MLA in the provincial legislature.

Oliver was re-elected as a UFO MLA in the 1929 election and was the sole ( and last ) United Farmers member in the legislature until 1940.

The party placed very poorly in a byelection to replace a Liberal MLA who had died, and the party had lost its other two seats when Maccagno resigned to run in the 1968 federal election and then in November 1969 the last remaining Liberal MLA, Bill Dickie, crossed the floor to join Lougheed's surging Progressive Conservatives.

During the last decade, when Davangere was suffering from water shortage, the local MLA Mallikarjuna worked to restore Kunduvada kere and made it as a water reservoir for the city.

* Aryadan Mohammed ( Minister for Power & Transport, MLA for last two decades )

1963 was the last year in Alberta provincial politics when an MLA was acclaimed with the acclamation of Leonard Halmrast in Taber-Warner.

Jacob Froese, the last Social Credit MLA in Manitoba history, represented this riding from 1959 until 1973.

* 1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

The last majority Liberal Government in Britain was elected in 1906.

The last such director, Ben Hayes, was elected in 2006 to serve until 2008, when the role was discontinued as a result of legal issues.

Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since James Buchanan in 1856.

In the last general election, which took place on 5 November 2009, only non-partisans were elected as there are no active political parties in the Falkland Islands.

* 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

In the last years of the PNDC, Jerry Rawlings assumed civilian status ; he was elected as a civilian President in 1993 and continued in power until 2001.

* 1508: Maximilian I the last ruling " King of the Romans " and the first " elected Emperor of the Romans ".

Charles V was the last to be a crowned Emperor ( elected 1519, crowned 1530 ); his successors were all Emperors by election (; ) only.

The last milestone was the General Assembly in March 1952, in Rome, Italy where the activities of the new IMU were inaugurated and the first Executive Committee, President and various commissions where elected.

Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, the only president ever to be so, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater success than he had achieved in the presidency.

During this time, Caesar was elected to his third and fourth terms as consul in 46 BC and 45 BC ( this last time without a colleague ).

Facing little opposition from the fractured Federalist Party, Monroe was easily elected president in 1816, winning over 80 percent of the electoral vote and becoming the last president during the First Party System era of American politics.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

However, in a popular uprising in 2009 the last elected president Marc Ravalomanana was made to resign and presidential power was transferred in March 2009 to Andry Rajoelina in a move widely viewed by the international community as a coup d ' état.

At the last parliamentary elections, 22 January 2005, only non-partisans have been elected.

This was the last time the Senate elected a Roman Emperor.

Rene Harris was finally able to claim power as the president of Nauru in March 2001 when he was elected to the presidency by the parliament ; his term was to last three years, presumably ending in 2004.

Against the backdrop of the historical sufferings of the Nepalese people and the enormous human cost of the last ten years of violent conflict, the MOU, which proposes a peaceful transition through an elected constituent assembly, created an acceptable formula for a united movement for democracy.

The last member appointed to the court who was not a former student at one of those two institutions was Sandra Day O ' Connor, appointed by the newly elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

Pope Urban VI, elected 1378, was the last pope who was not already a cardinal at his election.

Prior to the election of the Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II in 1978, the last non-Italian was Pope Adrian VI of the Netherlands, elected in 1522.

In the last Irish elections to the UK Parliament in 1919, STV was used in the University of Dublin constituency ; two Independent Unionists were elected.

While he was elected to a second term, his last four years were met with mounting allegations of corruption.