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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.

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.

Clive Sansom

He fought long and hard to preserve the original Lake Pedder, in Tasmania's south west, and was devastated when the then premier, Eric Reece, refused to accept millions of dollars from the Whitlam Labor government to hold a moratorium, which could have saved the original lake.

Daniel Hooker

In 1886, Hooker had become simply a Democrat, and alderman Theodore Rudzinski was the "People's Party" nominee.

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.

Samuel I. Hopkins

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

Yadlin affair

Yadlin was known to be a gambling buff (favoring the Las Vegas roulette table) with an eye for pretty women, He was also a major fund raiser for the Labor Party; since 1973, he has headed Israel's huge Kupat Holim health-insurance program.


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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.