The current leader of the party is Gaston Browne, who serves as the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

The report from an observer group from across the Commonwealth concluded that "voting rolls appeared to be inflated" and recommended "the establishment of an independent electoral commission to improve the voter registration process.

[7] The opposition United Progressive Party campaigned on an anti-corruption platform they called "Government in the Sunshine."

The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party won 14 of the 17 seats in the Legislature in the 2014 general elections, forming a majority government with Browne as Prime Minister.

Despite having been founded as a partisan expression of the labor movement in Antigua and Barbuda and having labor and social democratic origins,[11] the party is generally considered as an economically liberal and fiscally conservative party,[12][13] defender of a market-oriented economy and tax reductions, in particular rejecting the imposition of income tax.