Saint Lucia Labor Party

The Saint Lucia Labor Party (in English: Saint Lucia Labor Party, SLP) is a political party of social democratic ideology of Saint Lucia, a small independent country located north of Venezuela and south of Martinique, in the waters of the Caribbean Sea.

The Labor Party was founded in 1950 by George Frederick Lawrence Charles, an active union leader. The party was the winner of Saint Lucia's first elections after its independence from the United Kingdom in July 1979. On that occasion the party won 12 of the 17 seats in Parliament. In the early 1980s the island went through a major crisis and both the private sector and the unions forced the Labor government to resign in 1982 and lose the elections that same year to the United Workers Party of Saint Lucia (in English: United Workers Party, UWP).

Labor did not win the first magistrature again until 1997, when, led by Kenneth Anthony, a former Caricom official, they won 16 of the 17 seats in Parliament.

In the 2021 elections, the party won 13 of the 17 members of the House of Assembly.

Election results

Year	Leader	Votes	%	Assembly	Senators	+/-	Results
1951	George Charles	7.648	49.60 %	5/8			Government
1954		7.462	47.40 %	5/8			Government
1957		14.345	66.50 %	7/8		2	Government
1961		11.898	61.50 %	9/10		2	Government
1964		5.617	30.10 %	2/10		7	Opposition
1969	Kenneth Foster	8.271	36.10 %	3/10		1	Opposition
1974	Allan Louisy	14.554	44.50 %	7/17		4	Opposition
1979		25.294	56.20 %	12/17	8/11	5	Government
1982	Peter Josie	8.122	16.70 %	2/17	5/11	10	Opposition
1987 (I)	Julian Hunte	18.889	38.27 %	8/17	It wasn't formed.		Opposition
1987 (II)		21.515	40.80 %	8/17	5/11		Opposition
1992		25.565	43.20 %	6/17	5/11	2	Opposition
1997	Kenny Anthony	44.153	61.30 %	16/17	8/11	10	Government
2001		34.053	56.00 %	14/17	8/11	2	Government
2006		36.604	48.32 %	6/17	5/11	8	Opposition
2011		42.456	50.99 %	11/17	8/11	5	Government
2016		37.148	44.07 %	6/17	5/11	5	Opposition
2021	Philip J. Pierre	43.799	50.14 %	13/17	8/11	7	Government