New Zealand Labour Party facts for kids
The New Zealand Labour Party is a social democratic political party in New Zealand. It is one of the two major parties in New Zealand politics. It was started in 1916, which makes it the oldest of New Zealand's political parties. It is currently the ruling party since 2017.
From the 2008 general elections through 2017 general elections, the Labour Party was the second largest party in the House of Representatives of New Zealand and was the official opposition. The current leader of the party is Jacinda Ardern since August 2017 and she was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2017.
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Members of the Labour parliamentary caucus, 1922. Prominent members are Harry Holland (seated, left of centre), Peter Fraser (seated, right of centre) and Michael Joseph Savage (back row, rightmost).
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Members of the First Labour Government on the steps of the Parliamentary Library in Wellington, 1935
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The free-market policies of David Lange's government deviated sharply from those of previous Labour governments
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Helen Clark, Labour Prime Minister from 1999 to 2008
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Then-leader Phil Goff with current leader Jacinda Ardern and Carol Beaumont at a 2010 anti-mining march in Auckland
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Leader Jacinda Ardern with party members at a 2017 Labour election campaign event
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In Spanish: Partido Laborista de Nueva Zelanda para niños