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Progressive Labour Party | |
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Leader | E. David Burt |
Chairman | Scott Simmons |
Deputy Leader | Walter Roban |
Founded | 10 February 1963 |
Headquarters | Alaska Hall, 16 Court Street, Hamilton, Bermuda |
Ideology | Social conservatism[1] |
Political position | Centre-left[2] |
Senate | 5 / 11 |
Assembly | 30 / 36 |
Website | |
http://www.plp.bm | |
The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) is one of the three political parties in Bermuda. At the 18 July 2017 general election, the party won 24 of the 36 seats in the Bermudian House of Assembly to become the governing party. The party was founded in 1963, the first political party in Bermuda, and the oldest still active. It formed government from 1998 to 2012, and again since 2017.