The Solomon Islands Labour Party was a

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Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...

. The party was founded in 1988 by the Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions after the leadership of the union split. Joses Tuhanuku went on to lead the Labour Party, while

Bartholomew Ulufa'alu Bartholomew (Bart) Ulufa'alu Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (25 December 1950 – 25 May 2007) was the prime minister of Solomon Islands from 27 August 1997 to 30 June 2000.Solomon Islands Liberal Party The Solomon Islands Liberal Party (SILP) was a political party in the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country cons ...

.Premdas, Ralph R., and Jeffrey S. Steeves. “The 1993 National Elections in the Solomon Islands.” The Journal of Pacific History 29, no. 3 (1994): 46–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25434265. Tuhanuku would be an MP for the party starting in 1989. The party participated in government from 1993 until 1994 and then in the Solomon Islands Alliance for Change government from 1997 to 2000. Tuhanuku lost his seat in

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and the party has contested no parliamentary elections since then.

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Labour parties Political parties in the Solomon Islands Political parties established in 1988 1988 establishments in the Solomon Islands Political parties disestablished in the 2000s {{Solomons-party-stub