Solomon Islands Labour Party Explained

Solomon Islands Labour Party
Colorcode:	red
Leader:	Joses Tuhanuku
Foundation:	November 1988
Ideology:	Labourism Federalism^[1]
Country:	Solomon Islands
Founder:	Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions

The Solomon Islands Labour Party was a political party in Solomon Islands. The party was founded in 1988^[2] by the Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions after the leadership of the union split.^[3] Joses Tuhanuku went on to lead the Labour Party, while Bartholomew Ulufa'alu led the Solomon Islands Liberal Party.^[4] Tuhanuku would be an MP for the party starting in 1989.

The party participated in government from 1993 until 1994 and then in the Solomon Islands Alliance for Change government from 1997 to 2000.

Tuhanuku lost his seat in 2006 and the party has contested no parliamentary elections since then.

Notes and References

1. Book: Lines across the sea: colonial inheritance in the post colonial Pacific . 1995 . Pacific History Association . 978-0-646-24640-6 . Lal . Brij V. . Brisbane .
2. Book: Rebuilding a nation: ten years of the Solomon Islands - RAMSI partnership . 2013 . Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) . 978-982-9112-02-6 . O'Callaghan . Mary-Louise . Honiara . 863632742 . Honimae . Johnson . Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands.
3. Book: Banks, Arthur S. . Political Handbook of the World 2005-2006 . Muller . Thomas C. . Overstreet . William R. . 2006 . CQ Press . 978-1-4833-4119-4 . Thousand Oaks . 10.4135/9781483341194.
4. Premdas, Ralph R., and Jeffrey S. Steeves. “The 1993 National Elections in the Solomon Islands.” The Journal of Pacific History 29, no. 3 (1994): 46–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25434265.