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Social Democratic & Labour Party

Social Democratic and Labour Party
Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre
Abbreviation SDLP
Leader Colum Eastwood
Deputy Leader Vacant
Chairperson Ronan McCay
General Secretary Gerry Cosgrove
Founder Gerry Fitt
John Hume
Paddy Devlin
Seamus Mallon
Austin Currie
Founded 20 August 1970
Headquarters 121 Ormeau Road, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Youth wing SDLP Youth
Women's wing SDLP Women's Group
LGBT wing SDLP LGBT+
Ideology Social democracy
Irish nationalism

Pro-Europeanism
United Ireland
Political position Centre-left
European affiliation Party of European Socialists
International affiliation Socialist International
Colours Green, red, yellow
House of Commons
(NI Seats)
3 / 18
House of Lords
0 / 804
European Parliament
(NI seats)
0 / 3
NI Assembly
12 / 90
NI Local Councils
63 / 462
Website
www.sdlp.ie
Northern Ireland Council Seats
Antrim and Newtownabbey
4 / 40
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon
6 / 41
Belfast City
7 / 60
Causeway Coast and Glens
6 / 40
Derry and Strabane
10 / 40
Fermanagh and Omagh
8 / 40
Lisburn and Castlereagh
3 / 40
Mid and East Antrim
1 / 40
Mid-Ulster
6 / 40
Newry, Mourne and Down
14 / 41
North Down and Ards
1 / 40

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalistpolitical party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has three MPs in the House of Commons, and 12 MLAs in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The SDLP party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. During the Troubles, the SDLP was the most popular Irish nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA ceasefire in 1994, it has lost ground to the republican party Sinn Féin, which in 2001 became the more popular of the two parties for the first time. Established during the Troubles, a significant difference between the two parties was the SDLP's rejection of violence, in contrast to Sinn Féin's support for the Provisional IRA and physical force republicanism. The SDLP has fraternal links with other European social-democratic parties, including the Irish Labour Party and British Labour Party (neither of which contests elections in Northern Ireland), and is affiliated to the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists.


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