- Labour Co-operative
Labour Co-operative describes those candidates in British elections standing on behalf of both the Labour Party and the
Co-operative Party , based on a national agreement between the two parties.Although many Labour Party candidates, including over 200 of the current
Parliamentary Labour Party , are members of the Co-operative Party, only those candidates who have been officially endorsed by both parties may use the designation Labour Co-operative — around 30 candidates in the elections since1997 . Only Labour Co-operative MPs andpeer s belong to the parliamentary Co-operative Party group, such MPs and peers includeEd Balls andLord Bilston .At a local level, where wards may elect more than one councillor, only those where all candidates are supported by the Co-operative Party may use the designation on
ballot paper s and leaflets. In the list systems used for elections to theEuropean Parliament ,Scottish Parliament ,Welsh Assembly andLondon Assembly , the designation has not been used. This convention has been adopted ostensibly to avoid confusion between a mix of candidates that could lead to a reduction in the Labour vote. Nevertheless, there have been Labour Co-operative candidates in the single-member constituencies in those bodies and the Co-operative Party continues to support and promote constituency and list members of those assemblies and theHouse of Lords .Labour Co-operative candidates use the Labour logo on ballot papers, although a variety of hybrid logos have in the past been used on promotional literature.
ee also
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List of Labour Co-operative Members of Parliament
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