Formed in 1934 when the Trinidad Workingmen's Association changed its name, it was the country's first party.
The party was originally a trade union named the Trinidad Workingmen's Association.
[1] The party's ambition was to reform the colony's system from within through a series of gradual improvements for workers.
In the 1946 general elections, the first held under universal suffrage, the Labour Party received just 1.1% of the vote and failed to win a seat.
For the 1956 elections it ran as the Trinidad Labour Party-National Development Party and retained both seats.