Belfast Labour Party | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 activists and trade unionists.[1]
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.[2][3]
The party won 12 seats on Belfast Corporation in 1920, but later lost these.[4] Suffragette, Independent Labour and Co-operative activist Margaret McCoubrey in 1920 was elected a Labour councillor for the Dock ward of Belfast.[5] 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.
- ^ Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike (2000). Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century. p. 694.
- ^ "Westminster Elections in the future Northern Ireland, 1885-1910 by Nicholas Whyte". Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
- ^ "Sectarian Divisions of Ulster Labor Politics 1885-1906 by Wade Shen". Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
- ^ Budge, Ian; O'Leary, Cornelius (5 February 2016). Belfast: Approach to Crisis: A Study of Belfast Politics 1613–1970. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-00126-2.
- ^ McCoubrey, Margaret 1880-1955 Dictionary of Ulster Biography Archived 2008-03-19 at the Wayback Machine