Belfast Labour Party
The Belfast Labour Party was a political party in Belfast, Ireland from 1892 until 1924.
Belfast Labour Party | |
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| Leader | David Robb Campbell (1920 – 1924) |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Dissolved | 1924 |
| Merged into | Northern Ireland Labour Party |
| Ideology | Socialism Trade unionism British unionism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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It was founded in 1892 by a conference of Belfast Independent Labour activists and trade unionists.
Labour ran the Unionist Party close in Belfast North in a by-election in 1905 and in the general election of 1906 with William Walker as its candidate.
The party won 12 seats on Belfast Corporation in 1920, but later lost these. Suffragette, Independent Labour and Co-operative activist Margaret McCoubrey in 1920 was elected a Labour councillor for the Dock ward of Belfast. Nonetheless, the party came a very close second in Belfast West in the 1923 UK general election before merging with others to become the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
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