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Labour Party
LeaderMehgan Turner
Founded22 March, 1900
Headquarters921 Constitution Ave, 01AFS932 Leighton
Student wingLabour Students
Youth wingYoung Labour
Women's WingAssociation of Labour Women
Membership (2014)Decrease 501,723
IdeologySocial Democracy
Political positionCentre-left
International affiliationProgressive Alliance
Socialist International
Alliance of Esquarian Socialists
Esquarian ParliamentSocial Democrats
Colours  Red
House of Representatives
133 / 650
Senate
58 / 200
Provincial Councils
430 / 1,828
Esquarian Parliament
9 / 42
Election symbol
LP
Website
http://www.labour.org.ak

The Labour Party is a centre-left social-democratic political party in Arkiasis.

It is the second-largest party in the Arkiasian Parliament and the current leader of the opposition. Generally seen as the most successful and influential party in Arkiasian history, the Labour Party has exerted a profound influence on Arkiasian society, laying the foundation of the Arkiasian welfare state.

Ideology

The Labour Party strives for greater social equality whilst maintaining individual liberty through an extensive welfare state and a mixed economy with measures of government regulation in an attempt to establish fair competition, low inflation, low levels of unemployment, a standard of working conditions, and social welfare.

Political Impact and History

Many scholars attribute the Labour Party to be most the influential party in Arkiasis' history, holding power for 52 years in the 20th century. The party gained significant support during the Great Depression and its policies of relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth), and reform (through regulation of the Stock Market, banks and transportation) are credited with helping bring Arkiasis out of the Great Depression.

Among the party's other signature policies and legislative accomplishments include women's suffrage, universal healthcare, Social Security, universal primary, secondary and tertiary education, demilitarization, the first female Head of Government, and social liberal policies including same-sex marriage and euthanasia.

From the end of the 1970s however, the party started to lose voters to the right, leading to a turn to the right for the party during the 1980s. Since the 1980s, the party has included more of the principles of a social market economy in its policy, allowing for privatisation of government-held assets and services and reducing income tax progressivity, following the wave of economic liberalisation in the 1980s.

In 2010 the party achieved its worst electoral results since 1926, forcing it to commit to a co-operation agreement with other parties in order to form a majority government. The party further lost support in the 2014 federal election and become the opposition party.

In 2014 and 2015 several Labour MP's from Vesperia have left the party and joined the Vesperian people's Party citing dissatisfaction of Vesperian voters towards the Labour Party.

House of Representative

Election Seats +/– Government
2014
133 / 650
Decrease21 in opposition
2010
154 / 650
Decrease8 in government
2006
162 / 615
Decrease11 in government
2002
173 / 615
Decrease19 in government
1998
192 / 580
Increase28 in government
1994
164 / 580
Increase8 in government
1990
156 / 580
Decrease3 in opposition
1986
159 / 545
Increase18 in opposition
1982
141 / 545
Decrease15 in opposition
1978
156 / 510
Decrease21 in opposition
1974
177 / 510
Decrease15 in government
1970
192 / 510
Increase192 in government
1929
132 / 556
Increase4 in opposition
1926
128 / 546
Increase16 in opposition
1923
112 / 537
Increase5 in opposition
1920
107 / 518
Increase14 in government
1917
93 / 511
Increase21 in opposition
1911
72 / 455
Increase27 in opposition
1908
45 / 449
Increase6 in opposition
1905
39 / 445
Increase4 in opposition
1902
35 / 442
Increase35 in opposition