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United States Socialist-Labor Party

The United States Socialist-Labor Party was a socialist political party in the election of 1928 which broke away from the main Socialist Party of America.


Adam Marshall

Marshall once held concurrent membership with the Labor Party at the same time as being employed on the staff of independent Member for Tamworth, Peter Draper.

Aeroméxico Flight 576

Quintana Roo State Congressman Hernán Villatoro (of the Labor Party) was on board the flight and said, in a radio interview, that the hijacker was carrying a Bible, issued a series of religious prophecies, and warned that President Calderón should not attend the traditional Independence Day festivities in Mexico City's Zócalo on 16 September because of an impending earthquake.

Archibald Stewart

He helped found the Ballarat branch of the Labor Party in 1902 and was its secretary from 1905 to 1906; he was involved in James Scullin's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to unseat Alfred Deakin at the 1906 federal election.

Augustine Dominguez

He lost the district DFL Party's endorsement to Bobby Joe Champion in 2008.

Austin Hospital, Melbourne

The Labor Party pledged its opposition to the privatisation proposal.

Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2010

Gillard had been the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party since 4 December 2006, and had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Australia after Labor's landslide victory in the 2007 federal election.

Bill Luther

Luther was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1995 to January 3, 2003, serving in the 104th, 105th, 106th, and 107th congresses, representing Minnesota's 6th congressional district.

Conference for Progressive Political Action

This proposal was met by an amendment by Morris Hillquit of the Socialist Party, who called the 5 million votes cast for LaFollette an encouraging beginning and urged action for establishment of an American Labor Party on the British model—in which constituent groups retained their organizational autonomy within the larger umbrella organization.

Dewey Johnson

A second Congressional run in 1936 was successful; Johnson served as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party in the 75th congress, (January 3, 1937–January 3, 1939).

Digby Denham

The 1915 election saw the Liberal government swept out of power; 21 seats changed hands, with the main beneficiaries being the new Farmers' Union, an early precursor to the Country Party, and the Labor Party, which formed a majority government for the first time under T. J. Ryan.

Electoral district of Nedlands

At the 2001 state election, the Labor Party won government and Court's own margin was cut to 4.93% by Independent candidate Liz Davenport, a prominent fashion designer and member of the Liberals for Forests party.

Electoral district of North Fremantle

Its member at the time, Harry Bolton of the Labor Party, transferred to the seat of South Fremantle.

Equal Love

Equal Love has had the support of Amnesty International, the Australian Greens and other notable individuals such as Victorian Labor Party Minister for Education Bronwyn Pike, The Lord of the Rings star Ian McKellen and Australian Idol finalist Rob Mills.

Erik Paulsen

Paulson won reelection with 59% of the vote against Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party challenger Jim Meffert.

Gerry Sikorski

He was a U.S. Representative representing Minnesota's 6th congressional district as a DFL member from January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1993 in the 98th, 99th, 100th, 101st, and 102nd Congresses.

Green Party of Minnesota

In 2005, Cam Gordon, a former chair of the Green Party of Minnesota, was elected in Ward 2 to the Minneapolis City Council, winning over DFLer Cara Letofsky in a 51% to 48% vote.

Inter-State Commission

In 1984, following the re-election of Labor Party under Bob Hawke, the Commission received its appointments and was charged with investigating all matters relating to interstate transport.

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

He sought the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party as a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2008, but was defeated by Al Franken.

Jacob S. Coxey, Sr.

1932: In 1932, unsuccessfully ran for the office of President of the United States on the ticket of the United States Farmer-Labor Party.

Judith Grace González

In 1997, she ran for mayor of the city of Monterrey on the Labor Party (Partido Trabajo) ticket, and in 2000 she was the Alliance for Mexico candidate for senator from the state of Nuevo León.

Judith Walker

An active member of the Labor Party, she held various positions including President of the Alexandria branch, Vice-President of the New South Wales Labor Council, and Vice-President of the Kingsford-Smith Federal Electoral Council.

Justin O'Byrne

Justin Hilary O'Byrne, AO (1 June 1912 – 10 November 1993) was a long-serving Australian Labor Party politician who represented Tasmania in the Federal Senate from 1947 to 1981, acting as President of the Senate from 1974 to 1975.

Lee Odenwalder

Lee Kenny Odenwalder is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Little Para as the Labor Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, after the resignation of the previous Labor Party incumbent Lea Stevens.

Leesa Vlahos

Leesa Anne Vlahos (born 1966) is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Taylor as the Labor Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, after the resignation of the previous Labor Party incumbent Trish White.

Mekor Baruch

Before 1948, Mekor Baruch was considered an upscale neighborhood and was home to Eastern European Labor Party members and Holocaust survivors.

Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2010

The general election was contested by the major party candidates State Representative Tom Emmer (R-Delano), former Senator Mark Dayton (DFL), and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner.

Muriel Humphrey Brown

Humphrey was appointed as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party by Rudy Perpich, the governor of Minnesota, to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of her husband, and served from January 25, 1978 to November 7, 1978 in the 95th Congress.

Nedlands state by-election, 1982

Local businesswoman and long-standing Liberal Party member Margaret Sheen nominated as an Independent Liberal, while the Labor Party nominated lawyer Ian Temby QC, who had been prominent in assisting the Labor Party with court challenges to the government's electoral legislation.

Party switching

Australia has seen high-profile defections since 1995, including the 1997 move by Cheryl Kernot (then leader of the Australian Democrats) to the Labor Party, the declared independence of former Labor senator Mal Colston (1996) and the disintegration of the Democrats.

Priscilla Lord

In July 2008, she announced that she would be challenging Al Franken, who had been endorsed by the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, for the party's nomination in the U.S. Senate election.

Samuel I. Hopkins

Hopkins was elected as a candidate of the Labor Party to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889).

Shitsville Express

Francis Ventura, 22, is from Melbourne and has been volunteering for the Labor Party since he was nine years old and stood for the seat of Flinders in the 2010 Federal election.

South Australian state election, 2010

The centre-left Labor Party, led by Premier Mike Rann, and the centre-right Liberal Party, led by Leader of the Opposition Isobel Redmond, are the two main parties in South Australia.

Tasmanian state election, 1986

The Labor Party held 14, and there were three independents—former Labor Premier Doug Lowe, Green independent Bob Brown, and ex-Liberal MHA Gabriel Haros.

Tina Liebling

She and Andy Welti, a former DFL representative from neighboring District 30B, were part of large DFL gains in the Minnesota House in 2004.

Twenty-fifth government of Israel

The twenty-fifth government of Israel was formed by Yitzhak Rabin of the Labor Party on 13 July 1992, after the party's victory in the June elections.

Twenty-fourth government of Israel

Tehiya, Tzomet and Moledet all left the coalition in late 1991 and early 1992 in protest at Shamir's participation in the Madrid Conference, but the government remained in office until Yitzhak Rabin formed the twenty-fifth government, following the Labor Party's victory in the 1992 elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2006

This liberal-leaning district, based in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota, has been represented by DFL Congressman Jim Oberstar since 1975, who was the state's longest-serving Congressman.

In his bid for a seventh term in Congress, incumbent Republican Congressman Gil Gutknecht faced off against Tim Walz, a high school teacher and the DFL nominee in this swing district based in southern Minnesota.

United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2014

Incumbent Democratic–Farmer–Labor U.S. Senator Al Franken, who has served in the position since 2009, intends to seek re-election to a second term.

Warren Spannaus

Warren R. Spannaus (born December 5, 1930) is an American politician from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and former Attorney General of Minnesota.

Western Australian state election, 1936

The Labor Party, led by Premier Philip Collier, won a second term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Norbert Keenan respectively.

Western Australian state election, 1939

The Labor Party, led by Premier John Willcock, won a third term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Robert Ross McDonald respectively.

Western Australian state election, 1996

The LiberalNational coalition government, led by Premier Richard Court, won a second term in office against the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Dr Geoff Gallop since 15 October 1996.

Workers Party of America

Both the Workers Party of America and the Socialist Party of America engaged in separate labor party efforts, prior to the Presidential election of 1924.


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Abba Eban

In 1977 and 1981, it was widely understood that Shimon Peres intended to name Eban Foreign Minister, had the Labor Party won those elections.

Alson

Alson Streeter (born 1823), of New Windsor, Illinois, the Union Labor Party nominee in the United States presidential election of 1888

Amanda Fazio

Fazio joined the Australian Labor Party in February 1977 at the Enfield branch and worked for Australian federal politicians Leo McLeay and Stephen Martin.

On 20 October 2010, Fazio was suspended from the Labor Party when she crossed the floor to vote with the NSW Greens on a bill dealing with the distribution of X-rated pornography.

Australian Labor Party Caucus

The Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party, commonly known as The Caucus which consists of the Federal Labor Party's currently elected members of Parliament, is divided along formal factional lines.

Australian Labor Party leadership spill, June 1991

Bob Hawke had been leader of the Labor Party since 3 February 1983, and Prime Minister since 11 March 1983, with Labor winning four elections under his leadership.

Blackett, New South Wales

This seat is currently held by Ed Husic, of the Australian Labor Party, and he was last re-elected in the 2010 elections.

Brown Mountain forest

In 2008, logging recommenced in the Brown Mountain forest, despite Labor Party policy statements during the 2006 Victorian election campaign that they would protect Victoria's last remaining stands of old growth forest available for logging.

Builders Labourers Federation

Whilst the BLF is usually associated with the left of the political spectrum, the Queensland BLF has historically been aligned with the right faction of the Australian Labor Party.

Casual vacancies in the Australian Parliament

The Labor Party immediately challenged Field's appointment in the High Court, and he was on leave from the Senate from 1 October for the remainder of his short-lived term, which ended when the parliament was dissolved on 11 November.

Clemente Soto Vélez

He was involved with Vito Marcantonio's political campaigns and the American Labor Party.

Dalhousie state by-election, 1924

The candidates were Reginald Thomas Pollard, a farmer and grazier from Woodend, for the Labor Party; Angus Stewart McNab, a farmer and grazier from Willowmavin, for the Nationalist Party; Gerald James McKenna, a farmer from Kyneton, for the Country Party; and John James McCarthy, a grazier from Kyneton, an independent candidate.

Easson

Mary Easson (born 1955), Australian Labor Party Member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Lowe from 1993

Electoral district of Maylands

After the 1961 redistribution, Toms elected to contest the new seat of Bayswater at the 1962 election, whilst Oldfield, who had since joined the Labor party, won Maylands, but narrowly lost it three years later.

Another redistribution in 1966 changed the seat's status from marginal Liberal to safe Labor, and since John Harman's win at the 1968 election, it has been held by the Labor Party.

Electoral district of Subiaco

In 1903, he became leader of the eight-member Parliamentary Labor Party, succeeding Robert Hastie, and in a want of confidence motion on 10 August 1904 following the 1904 election, he became Premier at the head of a minority government supported by four independents.

Elmer Austin Benson

In 1940, he ran for the United States Senate against Henrik Shipstead, an incumbent senator who defected from the Farmer Labor Party to join the Republicans.

Emerton, New South Wales

This seat is currently held by Ed Husic, of the Australian Labor Party elected in the 2010 elections.

Before the 2011 election, the Labor party had held the seat since it was proclaimed in 1988.

Fred Riebeling

Riebeling retired shortly before the 2008 election and Vince Catania, the son of Balcatta MP Nick Catania won preselection for the vacant seat and retained the seat for the Labor Party.

Frederick Oswald Barnett

In 1935, a new government was elected, led by Albert Dunstan of the Country Party, with the support of the Australian Labor Party.

Fremantle by-election, 1994

John Dawkins had held Fremantle for the Labor Party since 1977, and he had been a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, and had been Treasurer since December 1991.

Geoff Pearsall

After Max Bingham stepped down as Leader of the Opposition following the July 1979 election, which had seen a swing to the incumbent Labor Party in Premier Doug Lowe's first election as leader, Pearsall was elected unopposed as leader on 7 August, with Robin Gray as deputy leader.

George Thomas Gahan

Labor Party candidates were not only being challenged by the conservative Liberal Party, but were facing a major challenge from their former comrades who had split and joined the increasingly powerful Democratic Labor Party.

Ilie Cătărău

By April 1917, Cătărău had come into contact with a left-wing group, Partidul Muncii ("Labor Party"), meeting its two founders: Grigore Trancu-Iaşi and Nicolae L. Lupu.

Isaac Herzog

Herzog managed to win a seat in the 2003 election as a member of the Labor Party, and was appointed Minister of Housing and Building at his request when Labor joined Ariel Sharon's coalition government on 10 January 2005.

Israeli Labor Party leadership election, 2011

According to Israel Army Radio, turnout of voting Labor Party members was at 65%.

Israeli presidential election, 2007

She gained the backing of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who at the time was running an ultimately successful campaign to regain the leadership of the Labor Party.

Johno Johnson

Johnson has been awarded a life membership of the Labor Party, and a papal knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Jonathan Dawson

Dawson continued to work as a writer director, primarily on commercials for clients like Qantas, Nestle, Volvo, as well as for many government election campaigns, creating a new style of "presidential" launch for the Federal Labor Party's successful national campaigns in 1983 and 1985 as well as directing TV commercials for Premier Neville Wran in New South Wales.

Lewis P. Featherstone

In 1888, he ran as a Labor Party candidate against Democrat William H. Cate for the Fifty-first Congress; although Cate was initially declared re-elected, Featherstone challenged on the grounds of election fraud.

Majority Labor Party

Catts resigned from the Labor Party in 1922, blaming the loss of the 1922 state election on Irishism, Bolshevism and Tammanyism within the party.

Mark Dudzic

For 18 years, prior to becoming Labor Party Chairman, Dudzic was president of Local 8-149 OCAW (a branch of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union).

Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1930–1933

:3 Adelaide MHA Bob Dale was also expelled from the Labor Party in August 1931 for supporting the rival Lang Plan of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang.

New South Wales state election, 2003

The National Party regained Clarence with the retirement of Harry Woods, but lost Monaro to the Labor Party.

Newcastle by-election, 1935

As Newcastle was the only remaining New South Wales seat held by the federal Labor Party, the by-election was closely fought with the breakaway New South Wales Labor Party, supporters of the controversial former Premier Jack Lang.

Noel Pullen

Noel Pullen (born 9 December 1944, Essendon, Victoria) was an Australian politician, and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Labor Party.

Nordlie

Odvar Nordli (1927 - ), Labor party politician, Norwegian prime minister 1976-1981.

Nuclear Disarmament Party

The government entered a cover-up to protect its state secretary Peter Batchelor and the Labor party.

Orientering

They also had the support of the Labor Party, such as the party's first Prime Minister, Christopher Hornsrud.

Redcliffe state by-election, 2005

The Labor Party chose school teacher Lillian van Litsenburg to defend Redcliffe, a seat they'd held for the past 19 years.

Shalvey, New South Wales

This seat is currently held by Ed Husic, of the Australian Labor Party, he was elected in the 2010 elections.

Simon Crean

On 4 February 2003, Crean led the Labor Party in condemning Prime Minister John Howard's decision to commit Australian troops to the Iraq War.

Susan Davies

She later rejoined the Labor Party and contested the 2004 federal election as the Labor candidate for the federal seat of La Trobe.

Victorian state election, 1932

Although supported by Victoria's Labor Premier, Edmond Hogan, several of his ministers, and a majority of the Labor parliamentary caucus, the Labor Party in general did not support the plan—a meeting of the Victorian Labor Conference in August 1931 passed a motion 143 to 87 opposing the plan, and calling upon the Victorian parliament to reject any legislation to enact it.

Western Australian state election, 1914

The fragility of the Labor Party's majority was demonstrated when, a year later, Labor member Joseph Gardiner's seat was declared vacant on account of his non-attendance and a Liberal was elected in his stead, and Labor became a minority government when on 18 December 1915, Edward Johnston resigned from the Labor Party and became an independent.