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{{Infobox political party
|name         = Gibraltar Labour Party
|logo         = 
|leader             = [[Daniel Feetham]]
|foundation         = {{start date and age|2003}}
|dissolved          = {{end date and age|2005}} 
|ideology           = [[Progressivism]]<br />[[British unionism]]
|position           =  [[Centrism|Centre]]
|international      = 
|european           = 
|europarl           = 
|colours            = 
|headquarters       = 
|website            = 
|merged = [[Gibraltar Social Democrats]]
|colorcode = #FF0000
|country=Gibraltar}}
{{Politics of Gibraltar}}
The '''Gibraltar Labour Party''' was a [[list of political parties in Gibraltar|political party]] in [[Gibraltar]].  They described themselves as an integrationist party and stated that their formation was prompted by the need for a strong opposition to the government. They were founded and led by [[Daniel Feetham]] and former Leader of the Opposition and integrationist, [[Maurice Xiberras]].

[[Image:Daniel Feetham.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Ex-leader of the Gibraltar Labour Party, [[Daniel Feetham]]]]

They opposed dialogue with [[Spain]] and wanted to change the [[Constitution of Gibraltar]], and support the right of Gibraltarians to decide their own constitutional arrangements under the principle of [[self-determination]]. They were also in favour of devolved integration with the United Kingdom, whereby Gibraltar would keep its internal
political and fiscal autonomy but via an Act of Union would form part of the United Kingdom.

They had proposed policies for the improvement of the quality and availability of [[house|housing]] in Gibraltar. They proposed that no individual should serve as [[Chief Minister of Gibraltar|Chief Minister]] for more than two terms, and called for a more transparent form of [[campaign finance|funding]] of political parties.

==Elections==
In the [[2003 Gibraltar general election|2003 General Election]] to the [[Gibraltar Parliament|Gibraltar House of Assembly]], the party won 9,445 votes [http://www.parliament.gi/images/parliamentary_election_statistics/general_election_results_by_party_independents_in_percentage_terms.pdf  (or 8.0% of the popular vote)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323062218/http://parliament.gi/images/parliamentary_election_statistics/general_election_results_by_party_independents_in_percentage_terms.pdf |date=23 March 2017 }} and no seats. This is the '''largest''' number of votes (in terms of both percentage and actual number of votes) for a Gibraltarian political party that has '''not''' won a seat in the Legislature '''throughout its electoral history'''.

==Election results==
===''[[Gibraltar Parliament|Parliament of Gibraltar]]''===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
! Election year
! # of<br />overall votes
! % of<br />overall vote
! # of<br />overall seats won
! ±
|-
! [[2003 Gibraltar general election|2003]]
| 9,445
| 8.0
| {{Composition bar|0|15|hex=#01789a}}
| New
|-
|}

==Merger==
In 2005, the Labour Party merged with the governing [[Gibraltar Social Democrats]], retaining the GSD name and leadership.<ref>http://thegibraltarchronicle.blogspot.com/search?q=Labour+Party {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> In 2013 Daniel Feetham became the leader of the Gibraltar Social Democrats and Leader of the Opposition.

==References==
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{{Gibraltar political parties}}

[[Category:Labour parties]]
[[Category:Defunct political parties in Gibraltar]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 2003]]
[[Category:2003 establishments in Gibraltar]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 2005]]
[[Category:Socialism in Gibraltar]]


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