New Zealand Labour Party
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 Prime Minister Chris Hipkins since January 2023.
New Zealand Labour Party Media
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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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Michael Joseph Savage, the first Prime Minister from the Labour Party
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Members of the First Labour Government on the steps of the Parliamentary Library in Wellington, 1935
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Leader Norman Kirk opening Labour's election campaign in 1966
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Party logo from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s
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The free-market policies of David Lange's government deviated sharply from those of previous Labour governments.
Helen Clark, Labour Prime Minister from 1999 to 2008
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Then-leader Phil Goff with future leader Jacinda Ardern and Carol Beaumont at a 2010 anti-mining march in Auckland
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Jacinda Ardern, Labour Prime Minister from 2017 to 2023