The Democratic Labour Movement (DLM) was a political party in

Guyana Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic British West Indies. entry "Guyana" Georgetown, Guyana, Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the co ...

History

The party was established in 1982, In the 1985 general elections it received only 0.7% of the vote and failed to win a seat.

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(2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', pp366-368 Following the elections, it joined the Patriotic Coalition for Democracy, an alliance of five parties calling for free and fair elections. This was achieved in

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, but the DLM saw its share of the vote fall to 0.5% and it remained without parliamentary representation. The party did not contest any further elections.Nohlen, p365

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