Grenada United Labour Party
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The Grenada United Labour Party (GULP) is a political party in Grenada.
History
The party was founded by Eric Gairy in 1950. It contested the first elections held under universal suffrage in 1951, and won six of the eight seats.[5] The 1954 elections saw the same outcome. In the 1957 elections it lost four seats, whilst two other parties, the Grenada National Party and the People's Democratic Movement also won two seats, with the GNP's leader Herbert Blaize becoming leader of the island.
The party regained power after winning eight of the ten seats in the
After democracy was restored, GULP won only a single seat in the 1984 elections and has since remained in opposition. It formed an alliance with United Labour[6] for the 1999 elections, in which it lost parliamentary representation for the first time since 1951. However, it regained a seat when Michael Baptiste of the ruling New National Party defected to GULP in June 2000.[7][8]
Electoral history
House of Representatives elections
Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Result |
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1951 | Eric Gairy | 13,328 | 64.2% | 6 / 8
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6 | 1st | Opposing majority |
1954 | 10,347 | 46.0% | 6 / 8
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1st | Opposing majority | ||
1957 | 10,952 | 44.3% | 2 / 8
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4 | 1st | Opposition | |
1961 | 11,606 | 53.3% | 8 / 10
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6 | 1st | Majority government | |
1962 | 9,705 | 46.0% | 4 / 10
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4 | 2nd | Opposition | |
1967 | 15,827 | 54.6% | 7 / 10
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3 | 1st | Majority government | |
1972 | 20,164 | 58.9% | 13 / 15
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6 | 1st | Majority government | |
1976 | 21,108 | 51.7% | 9 / 15
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4 | 1st | Majority government | |
1984 | 14,721 | 35.9% | 1 / 15
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8 | 2nd | Opposition | |
1990 | 11,105 | 28.1% | 4 / 15
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12 | 2nd | Opposition | |
1995 | 11,608 | 26.6% | 2 / 15
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2 | 3rd | Opposition | |
1999 | Herbert Preudhomme | 4,853 | 11.7% | 0 / 15
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2 | 3rd | Extra-parliamentary |
2003 | Gloria Payne Banfield | 2,243 | 4.7% | 0 / 15
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3rd | Extra-parliamentary | |
2008 | 478 | 0.8% | 0 / 15
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3rd | Extra-parliamentary | ||
2013 | Did not contest | ||||||
2018 | |||||||
2022 | Geoffrey Preudhomme | 64 | 0.1% | 0 / 15
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3rd | Extra-parliamentary |
References
- ^ Country Review: Grenada. 2016. Houston, Texas: CountryWatch Publications, 2016. Country Review: Grenada. p. 10. Online. Available URL: http://www.countrywatch.com/content/pdfs/reviews/B398L948.01c.pdf. October 12, 2003.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1, retrieved 2021-11-19
- ^ Mitchell, Jared (31 October 1983). "Bishop's last stand". Maclean's. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Hughes, Alister (26 October 1985). "Government Official Claims Destabilization Attempt". Associated Press. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ISBN 9781483371559.
- ^ a b Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 265.
- ^ "Jun 1995 - New Grenada Cabinet", Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume 41, June, 1995 Grenada, Page 40592.
- ^ GULP/PLM Combination Produces 11 Candidates Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Grenada Today, 5 July 2008