Labour Party or Labor Party is a name used by many

political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

Africa

Burkina Faso

* Party of Labour of Burkina, active 1990–1996 * Voltaic Labour Party, active

South Africa

Labour Party (South Africa) The South African Labour Party (), was a South African political party formed in March 1910 in the newly created Union of South Africa following discussions between trade unions, the Transvaal Independent Labour Party, and the Natal Labour P ...

* 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 The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (, abbr. MPLA), from 1977–1990 called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan social democratic political party. The MPLA fought against the P ...

, 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) The Labour Party (LP) is a social democratic political party in Nigeria. The party was created in 2002 and was previously known as the Party for Social Democracy (PSD) before changing to its current name the following year. Built on the ideology ...

Labour Party of Sine Saloum Labour Party of Sine Saloum (in French: ''Parti travailliste du Sine Saloum'') was a political party in Sine-Saloum, Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Oc ...

, Senegal, active circa 1960 * Tanzania Labour Party * Zimbabwe Labour Party

Asia

Armenia

* All Armenian Labour Party *

United Labour Party (Armenia) The United Labour Party (ULP) () is a social-democratic political party in Armenia. It is led by Gurgen Arsenyan. History Following the Armenian parliamentary election on 25 May 2003, the party won 5.7% of the popular vote and 6 out of 131 s ...

India

Labour Party (India) The Praja Rajyam Party () was a political party in India. Formation The first public meeting of the party was held by Chiranjeevi on 26 August 2008, at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Praja Rajyam means people's rule in Telugu language, Telugu. H ...

Independent Labour Party (India) The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) was a political party in India. It had its roots in the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation led by N. Sivaraj and B. R. Ambedkar. The Party was e ...

, active circa 1936–1938 *

Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan was a political party in India. The party was founded by Singaravelu Chettiar on 1 May 1923 in Madras. This was the first May Day celebration in India. This was also the first time the red flag was used in Ind ...

, active 1923–1925

Indonesia

Labour Party of Indonesia The Labour Party of Indonesia (, PBI) was a political party in Indonesia. Indonesian Labour Front The party was founded as a national trade union center, the Indonesian Labour Front (''Barisan Buruh Indonesia'', BBI), on 15 September 1945. At th ...

, active 1945–1948 *

Labour Party (Indonesia, 1949) The Labour Party () was a political party in Indonesia. It was formed on 25 December 1949 by a group of former Labour Party of Indonesia (PBI) members, who had disagreed with the merger of PBI into the Communist Party of Indonesia.Rose, Saul. '' ...

, active 1949–1955 *

Labour Party (Indonesia, 1998) The Labour Party () was a political party in Indonesia. It had its origins in the Indonesian Prosperous Laborers organization (SBSI), which in 1993 threw its support behind the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) as a vehicle for its political aspi ...

active 1998–2021 *

Labour Party (Indonesia, 2021) The Labour Party () is a political party in Indonesia founded on 5 October 2021. The party was reformed from and is a continuation of the defunct Labour Party (Indonesia, 1998), 1998 Labour Party founded by Muchtar Pakpahan. The party formed after ...

Japan

Japan Labour-Farmer Party The was a socialist political party in Japan between December 1926 and December 1928. During its existence, it occupied a centrist position in the divided socialist movement. Foundation The Japan Labour-Farmer Party was one of several proleta ...

, active 1926–1928 *

Farmer-Labour Party The was a short-lived socialist political party in Japan. The party was the first of the proletarian parties that emerged in the country after the enactment of the Universal Manhood Suffrage Law (普通選挙法, ''Futsū Senkyo Hō'') in 192 ...

, active 1925

Korea

Labor Party (South Korea) The Labor Party () is a democratic socialist political party in South Korea. History After the New Progressive Party and the Socialist Party voted to unite in 2012, the Labor Party was officially formed the following year. It held its inte ...

Democratic Labor Party (South Korea) The Democratic Labor Party () was a progressive and nationalist political party in South Korea. It was founded in January 2000, in the effort to create a political wing for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions which was considered more le ...

Philippines

* Partido ng Manggagawa *

Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka The Workers' and Peasants' Party (WPP), also known as Labor Party Philippines, Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka (lit. Workers' and Farmers' Party; PMM) and the Lapiang Manggagawa (; LM), is a political party in the Philippines. History The P ...

Singapore

* Labour Front *

Labour Party (Singapore) The Singapore Labour Party (abbreviation: SLP) was a political party in Singapore founded on 1 September 1948 by Indian trade unionists M.A. Majid of the Singapore Seamen's Union, M.P.D. Nair and Peter Williams of the Army Civil Services Union. ...

Elsewhere in Asia

* Georgian Labour Party * Labour Party (Hong Kong) *

Israeli Labor Party The Israeli Labor Party (), commonly known in Israel as HaAvoda (), was a Social democracy, social democratic political party in Israel. The party was established in 1968 by a merger of Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi (political party), Rafi. Unt ...

* Labour Party of Malaya, active 1952–1969 * Labour Party Pakistan * Ceylon Labour Party, Sri Lanka * Labor Party (Taiwan) *

Labour Party (Thailand) Labour Party was a political party in Thailand. History Labour Party (1968–1971) The Labour Party was founded on December 23, 1968 by Kan Chueakeaw as leader and Weera Thanomkiang as secretary-general. On February 10, 1969 the Labour Part ...

* Labour Party (Turkey)

Europe

Croatia

Croatian Labourists – Labour Party The Croatian Labourists–Labour Party () is a centre-left political party in Croatia. It was formed in 2010 by a former trade unionist and People's Party MP Dragutin Lesar, who was the party's only member of parliament in the 6th assembly. I ...

* Croatian Labour Party

Italy

Labour Federation (Italy) The Labour Federation (, FL) was a Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. The party's leader and founder was Valdo Spini. The FL was founded by members of the Italian Socialist Party (PS ...

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

Lithuania

Labour Party (Lithuania) The Labour Party (, DP) is a populist centre-left political party in Lithuania. The party was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire businessman and member of Seimas Viktor Uspaskich. History Foundation and first government (2003� ...

* Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, active 1989–2001

Netherlands

Labour Party (Netherlands) The Labour Party ( , PvdA or P van de A ) is a social democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1946 as a merger of the Social Democratic Workers' Party, the Free-thinking Democratic League and the Christian ...

* Central Democratic Labour Party, active 1933

Norway

Labour Party (Norway) The Labour Party (; , A or Ap; ), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party (, DNA), is a social democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum, and is led by Jonas Gahr Støre. It was the senior ...

* Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway, active circa 1920s

Poland

Labour Union (Poland) Labour Union (, ''UP'') is a minor social-democratic political party in Poland. It was a member of the Party of European Socialists (PES) until April 2022.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) The Labour Party, often referred to as Labour, is a List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum. The party has been describe ...

, one of two main political parties in the United Kingdom, primarily active in Great Britain **

Scottish Labour Party Scottish Labour (), is the part of the UK Labour Party active in Scotland. Ideologically social democratic and unionist, it holds 23 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 37 of 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It is repres ...

, division of the party for Scotland **

Welsh Labour Welsh Labour (), formerly known as the Labour Party in Wales (), is an autonomous section of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears have won a p ...

, division of the party for Wales **

London Labour London Labour is the devolved, regional part of the Labour Party in Greater London. It is the largest political party in London, currently holding a majority of the executive mayoralties, a majority of local councils, council seats and parli ...

, 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 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; ) is a social democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Ireland Assembly ( MLAs) and two members of Parliament (M ...

, Northern Ireland * Socialist Labour Party (UK)

=Defunct

= *

Belfast Labour Party The Belfast Labour Party was a political party in Belfast, Ireland from 1892 until 1924. It was founded in 1892 by a conference of Belfast Independent Labour Party, Independent Labour activists and trade unionists. Labour ran the Ulster Unionis ...

, 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 The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse work ...

* Irish Labour Party in Northern Ireland * Labour Party of Northern Ireland *

National Labour Organisation The National Labour Organisation, also known simply as National Labour, was formed in 1931 by supporters of the National Government in Britain who had come from the Labour Party. Its leaders were Ramsay MacDonald (1931–1937) and his son Mal ...

Northern Ireland Labour Party The Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) was a political party in Northern Ireland which operated from 1924 until 1987. Origins The roots of the NILP can be traced back to the formation of the Belfast Labour Party in 1892. Previously, in 1885 ...

Republican Labour Party The Republican Labour Party (RLP) was a political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt. They had previously been the sole Northern Ireland representatives of the Socialist R ...

, Northern Ireland * Scottish Labour Party (1888)

UK territories

Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) is a social-democratic political party in Gibraltar. The GSLP is the oldest surviving active political party in Gibraltar. Its roots are based in the trade union movement, as its founder and former lea ...

Gibraltar Labour Party The Gibraltar Labour Party was a political party in Gibraltar. They described themselves as an integrationist party and stated that their formation was prompted by the need for a strong opposition to the government. They were founded and led by ...

, active 2003–2005 *

Manx Labour Party The Manx Labour Party is a political party on the Isle of Man that was founded in 1918. Policies The Manx Labour Party published a manifesto of policies in 2021. It proposed increasing government spending on education to a minimum of 4% of GD ...

Elsewhere in Europe

* Belarusian Labour Party *

Belgian Labour Party The Belgian Labour Party (, , BWP; , , POB) was the first major Socialism, socialist party in Belgium. Founded in 1885, the party achieved its first electoral breakthrough in the aftermath of World War I. It was officially disbanded after the Ger ...

, active 1885–1940 * Estonian Labour Party, active 1917–1932 * Georgian Labour Party *

Labour Party (Ireland) The Labour Party (, ) is a centre-left and social democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the ...

* Workers' Party (Latvia), active 1920–1923 and 1997–2008 *

Labour Party (Malta) The Labour Party (, PL), formerly known as the Malta Labour Party (, MLP), is the oldest political party in Malta, and one of the two major parties alongside the Nationalist Party. It sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. The pa ...

* 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 The Barbados Labour Party (BLP), colloquially known as the "Bees", is a social democratic political party in Barbados established in 1938. It has been in power in 1954–1961, 1976–1986, 1994–2008, and 2018–present. The BLP has been the go ...

Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), colloquially known as the "Dems", is a political party in Barbados, established in 1955. It was the ruling party from 15 January 2008 to 24 May 2018 but faced an electoral wipeout in the 2018 general election w ...

Canada

* Canadian Labour Party, active 1917–1929 *

Labour candidates and parties in Canada There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party, or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. These were usually local or provincial groups using the Labour Pa ...

, active 1870s–1960s *

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; , FCC) was a federal democratic socialism, democratic socialistThe following sources describe the CCF as a democratic socialist political party: * * * * * * and social democracy, social-democ ...

(Farmer-Labour-Socialist), active 1932–1961 *

Labor-Progressive Party The Labor-Progressive Party (LPP; ) was the legal Front organization, front of the Communist Party of Canada and its provincial wings from 1943 to 1959. It was established amid World War II after a number of prominent Communist Party members w ...

, 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

* Labor Party (Puerto Rico), active 1899–1915 *

Socialist Labor Party of America The Socialist Labor Party (SLP)"The name of this organization shall be Socialist Labor Party". Art. I, Sec. 1 of thadopted at the Eleventh National Convention (New York, July 1904; amended at the National Conventions 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 192 ...

, established 1876

Defunct

* American Labor Party, 1936–1956 *

American Labor Party (1932) The American Labor Party (ALP) was the final name of a De Leonism, De Leonist splinter group in the US in the early 1930s. The ALP had split from the Industrial Union Party, Industrial Union League, which in turn had split from the Socialist Labo ...

, active until 1935 * Communist Labor Party of North America, 1953–1974 *

Farmer–Labor Party The first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. The American entry into World War I caused agricultural prices and workers' wages to fall, while retail prices rose sharply during the war years. Consequent ...

, 1918–1944 * Greenback Labor Party, active 1874–1889 * Labor Party (Hawaii), 1908 *

Labor Party (United States, 19th century) Labor Party was the name or partial name of a number of United States political parties which were organized during the 1870s and 1880s. History * In 1867, the first American chapter of the International Workingmen's Association opened. In ...

, 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) The Labor Party ( , PT; also known as the Workers Party) is a socialist political party in Mexico. It was founded on 8 December 1990. The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya. Following the 2018 election, the PT became the third-largest po ...

* Labor Party (Panama), active 1925–1930 *

Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party The Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), also known simply as Labour, is a centre-left political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is currently in government in the country after winning six of the eleven contested seats in the 2022 gene ...

* Saint Lucia Labour Party * Unity Labour Party, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Oceania

Australia

Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia and one of two Major party, major parties in Po ...

** ACT Labor Party **

New South Wales Labor Party The New South Wales Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) and commonly referred to simply as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is the current ...

Queensland Labor Party The Queensland Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland) and commonly referred to as Queensland Labor or simply Labor, is the branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the state of Queensland. It has ...

** South Australian Labor Party ** Tasmanian Labor Party ** Territory Labor Party ** Victorian Labor Party **

Western Australian Labor Party The Western Australian Labor Party, officially known as WA Labor, is the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It is the current governing party of Western Australia since winning the 2017 state election under Mark McGo ...

* 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 The New Zealand Labour Party, also known simply as Labour (), is a Centre-left politics, centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers descri ...

* New Zealand Labour Party (1910), active 1910–1912 *

United Labour Party (New Zealand) The United Labour Party (ULP) of New Zealand was an early centre-left to left-wing political party. Founded in 1912, it represented the more moderate wing of the labour movement. In 1916 it joined with other political groups to establish the mo ...

, 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 The Fiji Labour Party (FLP; ),() also known as Fiji Labour, is a political party in Fiji. Most of its support is from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoc ...

* Labour Party (New Caledonia) * Western Samoa Labour Party, active circa 1990s *

Vanuatu Labour Party The Vanuatu Labour Party (; ) is a political party in Vanuatu. The party was established on 3 June 1987. It was founded on the initiative of various trade union organizations in order to contest the 1987 Vanuatuan general election, 1987 parliamen ...

South America

Brazil

Brazilian Labour Party (historical) The Brazilian Labour Party (, PTB) was a populist political party in Brazil founded in 1945 by supporters of President Getúlio Vargas. It was dismantled by the Institutional Act Number Two in 1965 during the military dictatorship in Brazil. ...

, 1945–1965 *

Democratic Labour Party (Brazil) The Democratic Labour Party (, PDT) is a political party in Brazil. History The Democratic Labour Party (PDT) was founded in 1979 by left-wing leader Leonel Brizola as an attempt to reorganise the Brazilian left-wing forces during the end of ...

, since 1979 *

Brazilian Labour Party (current) The Brazilian Labour Party (, PTB) was a political party in Brazil registered in 1981. It was the seventh largest political party in Brazil with more than a million affiliated as of 2022. The party was founded by Ivete Vargas, niece of Presid ...

, since 1979 * Brazilian Labour Renewal Party, since 1994 *

Avante (political party) Avante (, ) is a right-wing Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, ...

, since 2017, Labour Party of Brazil, 1989–2017 * National Labour Party (1945-1965) *

Podemos (Brazil) Podemos (PODE; , ), previously known as the National Labour Party (, PTN) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right List of political parties in Brazil, Brazilian political party. Historically Labour movement, labourist and Janismo, Janist, since ...

, since 2016, National Labour Party, 1995–2016 *

Act (Brazil) ''Agir'' ( ˈʒiɾ ) is a political party in Brazil, established in 1985. It was founded as the Youth Party (; PJ), and was renamed the National Reconstruction Party (, PRN) in 1989, and the Christian Labor Party (, PTC) in 2000. The party was ...

, 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 The Surinamese Labour Party (, SPA) is a political party in Suriname. In the 2010 legislative elections, the party was part of the New Front for Democracy and Development that won 31.65% of the popular vote and 14 out of 51 seats in the Natio ...