Ceylon Labour Party

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The Ceylon Labour Party (CLP) was a political party in Sri Lanka.

History

The party was established by A. Ekanayake Gunasinha in 1928.[1] Having already set up the Ceylon Labour Union, Gunasinha modelled the new party on the British Labour Party having visited the UK in 1927 and been encouraged to set up a new party by Labour Party members.[1] In 1929 he left the nationalist Ceylon National Congress.[1]

Gunasinha was elected to the State Council in the 1936 elections, and was re-elected in the 1947 elections, in which the party won a single seat. Gunasinha subsequently became a minister in D. S. Senanayake's government. He was re-elected again in the 1952 parliamentary elections as the party's sole MP. After failing to win any seats in the 1956 elections, the party did not contest any further elections.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p1013–1014
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