Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)

Democratic Labour Party
Abbreviation	DLP
Leader	Ralph Thorne
President	Andre Worrell
Founded	Errol Walton Barrow, 27 April 1955
Split from	Barbados Labour Party
Headquarters	George Street, Belleville, St. Michael
Ideology	Social democracy Republicanism
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	West Indies Democratic Labour Party (1957–1961)
House of Assembly	1 / 30
Senate	2 / 21
Website
www.dlpbds.org
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The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), colloquially known as the "Dems", is a political party in Barbados, established in 1955. It was the ruling party from 15 January 2008 to 24 May 2018 but faced an electoral wipeout in the 2018 general election which left it with no MPs.

In common with Barbados' other major party, the Barbados Labour Party, the DLP has been broadly described as centre-left social-democratic party, with local politics being largely personality-driven and responsive to contemporary issues and the state of the economy. Historically, the BLP claims a heritage from British liberalism,^[1] while the DLP was founded 11 years afterwards as a more left-leaning breakaway group.