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    The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of Jamaica's two major political parties. Founded in 1943 by Alexander Bustamante, the JLP has traditionally been more conservative than its rival, the People's National Party. The current leader of the JLP is Andrew Holness, who has led the party to governing victories in 2007 and 2016. Despite its name, the JLP is now considered a center-right party that advocates conservatism and has ties to Jamaica's labor movement due to its historical origins.

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    The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of Jamaica's two major political parties. Founded in 1943 by Alexander Bustamante, the JLP has traditionally been more conservative than its rival, the People's National Party. The current leader of the JLP is Andrew Holness, who has led the party to governing victories in 2007 and 2016. Despite its name, the JLP is now considered a center-right party that advocates conservatism and has ties to Jamaica's labor movement due to its historical origins.

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    The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of Jamaica's two major political parties. Founded in 1943 by Alexander Bustamante, the JLP has traditionally been more conservative than its rival, the People's National Party. The current leader of the JLP is Andrew Holness, who has led the party to governing victories in 2007 and 2016. Despite its name, the JLP is now considered a center-right party that advocates conservatism and has ties to Jamaica's labor movement due to its historical origins.

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    Jamaica Labour Party

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    Jamaica Labour Party

    Leader

    Andrew Holness

    Founder

    Alexander Bustamante

    Chairman

    Robert Montague

    General Secretary

    Horace Chang

    Founded

    8 July 1943

    Headquarters

    Kingston, Jamaica

    Youth wing

    Young Jamaica

    Young Professional
    Arm

    G2K (Generation 2000)

    Women's Group

    Women's Freedom Movement


    (WFM)

    Trade Union Wing

    Bustamante Industrial Trade


    Union

    Ideology

    Conservatism

    Political position

    Centre-right[1][2]

    International affiliation International Democrat Union


    Regional affiliation

    Caribbean Democrat Union

    House of
    Representatives

    32 / 63

    Senate

    13 / 21

    Local Government

    75 / 227

    Parish Councils

    0 / 13

    Website
    jamaicalabourparty.com
    Politics of Jamaica
    Political parties
    Elections
    The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the
    People's National Party (PNP). Despite its name, the JLP is a conservative[3][4][5] political party, albeit one
    with ties to the Jamaican labour movement due to its history. The JLP is a member of the Caribbean
    Democrat Union.
    It is the current governing party, having won 32 of the 63 parliamentary seats in the lower house of
    parliament (House of Representatives) in the 2016 elections. The party did not win any of the local
    government councils (municipalities) in the 2012 local elections.
    The JLP uses the Liberty Bell, the victory sign, and the colour green as electoral symbols.
    Contents

    1 Political background

    2 Electoral Performance

    3 List of party leaders

    4 References

    5 External links

    Political background
    The party was founded on 8 July 1943 by Alexander Bustamante as the political wing of the Bustamante
    Industrial Trade Union. It won the 1944 general elections with 22 of the 32 seats.[6] It went on to win the
    1949 elections with a reduced majority, before losing power to the PNP in the 1955 elections. It
    remained in opposition following the 1959 elections, but was victorious in 1962 and was therefore the
    Government when Jamaica gained its political independence from Great Britain on 6 August 1962.
    In 1964 Bustamante retired from politics, but he did not relinquish the title of party leader for several
    years until the party gave him the honorific title of "The Chief" following its defeat in the 1972 elections.
    In the interim the party's effective head was First Deputy Leader Donald Sangster who led the party to
    victory at the polls on 21 February 1967. Sangster suffered a brain hemorrhage and died about six weeks
    after the elections, while he was preparing for his budget presentation.
    Hugh Shearer succeeded Sangster as First Deputy Leader and Prime Minister, defeating David Clement
    (DC) Tavares by two votes in a run-off by of the JLP parliamentarians. Tavares had came out on top in
    the first ballot, with Shearer and Robert Lightbourne being the other candidates. Shearer led the JLP to

    election defeat against the People's National Party's Michael Manley in 1972 and served as Opposition
    Leader until 1974. Both Sangster and Shearer served as prime ministers while Bustamante remained
    party leader: they both had the title of "First Deputy Leader" of the JLP while they served as Prime
    Minister.
    In 1974 Edward Seaga was elected the second leader of the party. The party lost the 1976 elections, but
    Seaga became Prime Minister after victory in 1980 when the party won by a landslide, capturing 51 of
    the then 60 parliamentary seats. In 1983 with the JLP achieving a spike in popularity, in part because of
    Seaga's support of the US-led military invasion of Grenada, Seaga called early elections and won all sixty
    seats, the majority by acclamation, mainly because the opposition PNP boycotted those elections. The
    JLP suffered defeat in the 1989 elections and went on to lose elections in 1993, 1997 and 2002, all under
    the continued leadership of Seaga.
    In 2005 Bruce Golding succeeded Seaga as leader of the party, and led it to victory in the 2007 elections.
    Golding resigned as head of the party and head of government in October 2011 and was succeeded by
    current leader Andrew Holness, who served as prime minister until January 2012, when he assumed the
    position as Opposition Leader. Holness called the 2011 elections, over a year before it was
    constitutionally due, and the party lost by a 2:1 margin to the PNP.
    The party held a leadership election on 10 November 2013 where incumbent party leader (and Leader
    of the Opposition), Andrew Holness, was challenged by party deputy leader and Shadow Minister for
    Finance, Audley Shaw. Holness defeated Shaw by a margin of 2,704 votes to Shaw's 2,012.[7]
    Electoral Performance

    Election Leader

    Votes

    Share
    of
    votes

    Seats Result

    1944

    William
    22 /
    Alexander Clarke 144,661 41.4%
    Government
    32
    Bustamante

    1949

    William
    17 /
    Alexander Clarke 199,538 42.7%
    Government
    32
    Bustamante

    1955

    William
    14 /
    Alexander Clarke 189,929 39.0%
    Opposition
    32
    Bustamante

    1959

    William
    16 /
    Alexander Clarke 247,149 44.3%
    Opposition
    45
    Bustamante

    Election Leader

    Votes

    Share
    of
    votes

    Seats Result

    1962

    Sir William
    26 /
    Alexander Clarke 288,130 50.0%
    Government
    45
    Bustamante

    1967

    Sir Donald Burns


    33 /
    224,180 50.7%
    Government
    Sangster
    53

    1972

    Hugh Lawson
    Shearer

    205,587 43.4%

    16 /
    Opposition
    53

    1976

    Edward Phillip
    George Seaga

    318,180 43.2%

    13 /
    Opposition
    60

    1980

    Edward Phillip
    George Seaga

    502,115 58.3%

    51 /
    Government
    60
    Government

    PNP boycotted the elections. JLP won the 6


    seats contested along with independent
    candidates and gained the other 54 for
    which only the JLP had nominees.

    1983

    Edward Phillip
    George Seaga

    23,363 88.0%

    60 /
    60

    1989

    Edward Phillip
    George Seaga

    362,589 42.9%

    15 /
    Opposition
    60

    1993

    Edward Phillip
    George Seaga

    263,711 39.1% 8 / 60 Opposition

    1997

    Edward Phillip
    George Seaga

    297,387 38.6%

    10 /
    Opposition
    60

    2002

    Edward Phillip
    George Seaga

    360,468 46.9%

    26 /
    Opposition
    60

    2007

    Orette Bruce
    Golding

    410,438 50.0%

    32 /
    Government
    60

    2011

    Andrew Michael
    Holness

    405,920 46.3%

    21 /
    Opposition
    63

    2016

    Andrew Michael
    Holness

    TBD

    32 /
    Government
    63

    TBD

    List of party leaders

    Sir Alexander Bustamante (19431974)

    Sir Donald Sangster (acting: 19651967)1

    Hugh Shearer (acting: 19671974)1

    Edward Seaga (19742005)

    Bruce Golding (20052011)

    Andrew Holness (2011present)

    1.^ Donald Sangster and Hugh Shearer were not actually leaders of the JLP but were de facto leaders
    during Bustamante's illness/withdrawal from active political life.

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