Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)

Liberal–Labour (often referred to as "Lib-Lab") was a political association in New Zealand in the last decade of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.

It represented candidates who stood for the New Zealand Liberal Party while also receiving endorsement and support from the labour (trade union) movement.

Equally, in others where only one was running against a government member, supporters of both backed each other's candidates.

When the Liberal Party won power in 1890, five members of John Ballance's caucus claimed to be "Labour" MPs.

[6] During the period 1904–13 there was increasing debate by unionists on the issue to separate themselves from the Liberals, which ultimately led to the creation of the present-day Labour Party in 1916.