Labour Almanack & Events 

Events Links

This will provide a link to all the key party and affiliate events to help you find things quickly and also plan our own events around them.

Labour Internal Elections as a regular event in the party calendar are shown further down the page.

Labour Party Events

Labour Party Campaign and Social Events across the country

Labour Party National Phonebanking Taskforce Events but members can also Phone Voters any day.

Labour Party Training Events

Other Events

Coop Party Events

Fabian Society Events

Many of Labour's TU affiliates and Socialist Societies and also its organised groups and factions also hold events and you can access links to them in the Conference Section at the bottom of main Labour Dashboard page.

Labour Almanack

This is an updated almanack covering the year ahead covering some key party deadlines through the year and also annual events and commemorations. 

Disclaimer. Any internal Labour deadlines given here should never be seen as a definitive source and you should always check the original Party HQ sources for them.

2026

Jan

• 16 Jan? - Conference Delegate Registration Opens 

• 25 Jan - Burns’ Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_supper  often events by CLPs 

• 27 Jan - International Holocaust Memorial Day: https://hmd.org.uk/ 

• 29 Jan - Closing Date for Labour Students and Young Labour Nominations 

Feb

Mar

• 8 Mar - International Women’s Day: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/ Women of the World (WOW) Foundation events: https://thewowfoundation.com/ 

Apr

• 22 Apr - Stephen Lawrence Day: https://stephenlawrenceday.org/ 

• 28 Apr - Ed Balls Day: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63518/what-ed-balls-day and https://twitter.com/edballs/status/63623585020915713 

May

• 1 May - May Day (or Beltane) Ancient Festival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day International Workers Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day 

• 7 May - Elections. Electoral Commission list of elections https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections Scottish Parliament Election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Scottish_Parliament_election Welsh Senedd Election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Senedd_election Local Elections in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_Kingdom_local_elections 

• 4-12 May - 100th anniversary of the UK General Strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_United_Kingdom_general_strike General Strike 100 Map Project here: https://generalstrike100.com/#map=5/54.8/-3.4 

• 9 May - With Banners Held High Trade Union Festival, Wakefield:  https://www.facebook.com/withbannersheldhigh/ 

June

• 7 June - Clarion Sunday - Last Clarion Cycling House: https://www.londonclarion.org.uk/event-details/clarion-sunday-2026-a-celebration-at-the-last-clarion-house 

• 11 June - 2026 National Policy Forum Consultation closes: https://nationalpolicyforum.labour.org.uk/ 

• 22 June - Windrush Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_Day 

• 26 June - Noon -  Annual Conference Delegate deadline, NEC, NPF & NCC Nominations

• 27 June? - Co-op Party AGM

• Likely to be late June to early July - Co-operatives Fortnight:? (assumed date) https://www.uk.coop/get-involved/campaigns/co-op-fortnight-landing 

July

• 4 July - International Day of Co-operatives: https://www.un.org/en/observances/cooperatives-day 

• 4 July - 2nd anniversary of the election of the current Labour Government under Keir Starmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election 

• 4 July - Pride in London LGBTQIA Festival https://prideinlondon.org/ 

• 4 July - Cradley Heath Chainmakers Festival (Women’s low pay strike commemoration): https://www.womenchainmakers.org.uk/ 

• 5 July - NHS Founding Day: https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/nhs-history/ 

• 11 July - Durham Miners Gala: https://www.durhamminers.org/gala 

• 17-29 July - Tolpuddle Festival: https://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival 

Aug

Sept

• 7 Sept - Burston Strike School Rally (longest ever strike commemoration): https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/events/burston-strike-school-rally 

• 10 Sept - 5pm?  Annual Conference Deadline for receipt of Contemporary Motions 

• 11 Sept? - Annual Conference Contemporary Motion Appeals

• 13-16 Sept - TUC Congress: https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-congress-2026 

• 25 Sept - Noon Annual Conference Deadline for Emergency Motions 

• 27 Sept-30 Oct - Labour Party Conference, Liverpool

• 21 Sept-4 Oct? Fairtrade Fortnight: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get-involved/current-campaigns/fairtrade-fortnight/ 

Oct

Nov

• 14-15 Nov Co-op Party Annual Conference - London: https://party.coop/event/annual-conference-2025 

Dec

Labour Internal Elections this year

A listing of all the elections and full analysis of the potential results 

Autumn 2026 Elections

I am running an X/Twitter feed on the Autumn elections here at present - to be updated.

Elections are below. Any assumed deadlines (do check directly on those) are set out above.

• Internal Elections Information on Labour Website

• Candidate Statements

More to be added shortly on the nominations

• Current Nominations List

• Nominations for the NEC CLP Section by faction

• Nominations for the NPF CLP Rep by faction

Past Internal Election Results are on the Labour Archive Page.

Election Slates

Main slates, groups and Independents

• Labour to Win + Labour First + Progress (LTW/LF) - Slate probably appointed by Officers/Board/Commmittee

• Mainstream + Open Labour (Main) - Slate balloted among members here and agreed here.

• Momentum + CLPD (Mom/CLPD) - slate probably agreed by brokerage of a range of overlapping political and equality strand groups. They have a candidate site here.

• Restoration (Rest) - Presumably agreed by any committee they have. Aim is to promote Working Class candidates across the slates

• Independents (Ind)

These are also a number of women specific slates running for the Labour National Women's Committee

• Labour Women Lead - aligned with Momentum/CLPD slate

• Labour Women's Declaration 

• Labour Women United

NEC Contested Roles

All the contests are listed below with some commentary in bold red. 

In overview we may see some small changes in the CLP section as the soft left Mainstream group establish a base on the NEC which could be at the expense of 1 Right or Left seat? Important to note though, that 3 Mainstream on the NEC would only be an advance of 1 seat on the Ann Black/Cat Arnold soft left seats of 2024 so this is less of a big gain and more reflecting a trend already established in 2024 which was possibly not considered so significant then. 

The Wales seat is always highly contested and could well swing left this time in the Senedd election aftermath? 

At the same time it is arguable that the unopposed Disabled Rep seat is switching from left to soft left.

Thus overall less a big change in elected seats than some might expect with the right possibly down -1/-2 to soft left and left =/-1. As I cover elsewhere on Labour Dashboard page with estimates on NEC composition, the Leader/Frontbench NEC Rep change may be more significant in numbers change than the actual election results

NEC CLP Reps - 9 to elect

An early list of candidates was here.

Candidates/Slates who have made the ballot: 

• LTW/LF: 4 - 374 Nominations - 42%

• Mainstream: 3 - 305 Nominations - 35%

• Mom/CLPD 3 - 131 Nominations - 15%

• Restoration 2 - 16 Nominations - 2%

• Independent  5 - 57 Nominations - 6%

Total: 17 (standing for 9 seats)

Current Result Estimate: LTW/LF 3-4, Main 3, Mom/CLPD 2-3, Rest 0-1, Ind 0-1 (this is a very tentative estimate based on past results, nominations, incumbency trends & a re-estimate of nominations based on Jess Barnard having been eligible to be nominated all through suggesting 8 seats look reasonably clear but 4 groups could be in a battle for the final seat. Possible more likely potential seat outcomes could be 4-3-2, 3-3-2-1, and 3-3-3.

Past NEC results are here.

LTW/LF - 4 candidates on ballot

• Jane Thomas (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 106  nominations

• Abdi Duale (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 98  nominations

• Angela Davies (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 85  nominations

• Peter Mason (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 85  nominations

Mainstream - 3 candidates on ballot 

• Cat Arnold (Main) - sitting NEC member - 107  nominations

• Kerry Postlewhite (Main) - 100  nominations

• Jovan Owusu-Nepaul (Main) - 98  nominations

Momentum/CLPD - 3 candidates on ballot

• Gemma Bolton (Mom/CLPD) - sitting NEC member - 58  nominations 

• Yasmine Dar (Mom/CLPD) - sitting NEC member - 54  nominations

• Jess Barnard (Mom/CLPD) - sitting NEC member - 27  nominations (Note: these are lower as she was suspended as a member for part of the nomination period)

  • • Note Minesh Parekh has withdrawn. He stood to replace Jess Barnard if her suspension was not lifted.

Restoration - 2 Candidates on Ballot

• Andrew Achilleos (Rest) - 10  nominations

• Stella Tsantekidou (Rest) - 6  nominations

The following three candidates from Restoration failed to secure 5 CLP nominations

• • • Sam Theodoridi (Rest)

    • David Littlefair (Rest)

    • Jake Croft (Rest)

Independent - 4 candidates on ballot

Some have stood before and polled quite well in the ballot, though none have been elected yet.

• James Turnbull (Ind) – 18  nominations

• Zahida Abbas Noori (Ind) - 16 nominations

• John Wiseman (Ind) - 9 nominations

• George Davies (Ind) - 8 nominations

• Neeraj Patil (ind) – 6  nominations

NEC Local Gov Reps - 2 to elect

• Claire Holland (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 42 Nominations

• Peter Wheeler (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 40 Nominations

• Elizabeth Dennis  (Main) - 11 Nominations

• Jamie Green (Mom) - 7 Nominations

Based on past nominations and votes this looks likely to see no change.

NEC Welsh Rep

• Ann Jones (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 11 Nominations

• Mick Antoniw (WLG/Mom/CLPD?) - 16 Nominations

Note: This looks like a seat where we could see a change compared to 2024.

NEC Youth Rep

• Caspar Chatham (Ind) - 7 Nominations

• Elsie Greenwood (LTW/LF) (GMB) sitting NEC member - 66 Nominations

Based on nominations, level of union support and recent Young Labour elections this looks likely to see no change.

NEC and National Officer Posts - Elected Unopposed

NEC Disability Rep

• Emily Pomroy-Smith (Ind) (Unite)

This was assumed to be a contest, but the Unions have backed Emily Pomroy-Smith who ran as an Independent for CAC last year and she has been elected unopposed. Having stood on a soft left slate with Cat Arnold in 2024, it is assumed she will as well as aligning with left leaning unions, also align with the likely Maistream reps likely to be elected to the NEC. As her predecessor was previously endorsed by Momentum/CLPD it could be argued this is a small shift from 2015-19 era Left to Soft Left.

NEC BAME Rep

• Carol Sewell (Unison)

NEC Treasurer

• Ruth Brady (GMB)

Auditors

• Chris Kitchen (NUM)

• Gwlyan Brinkworth (GMB)

Other Party Committee Elections by Conference Delegates

Based on nominations some of the CLP Rep contests below may look closer than some think, but based on the 2025 Conference Delegate composition link which can be found on the Labour Dachboard page, it is likely these may see up to 70%+ LTW/LF wins. The most interesting thing may be to see if candidates backed by Mainstream poll better than Momentum/CLPD candidates?

National Constitutional Committee

NCC CLP Reps

LTW/LF Slate

• Alice Smart (LTW/LF) - 58 Nominations

• Sheri-Ann Bhim (LTW/LF) - 57 Nominations

• Sue Pugh (LTW/LF) - 56 Nominations

• Jonathan Hawkes (LTW/LF )- 52 Nominations

Independent

• Rich Taylor (Independent) - 50 Nominations

Momentum/CLPD slate

• Harry Stratton (Mom/CLPD) -31 Nominations

• Rachel Garnham (Mom/CLPD) - 31 Nominations

• Dave Levy (Mom/CLPD) - 25 Nominations

• Caoimhe Ni Dhonaill (Mom/CLPD) - 25 Nominations

NCC TU Reps

Elected unopposed

• Wendy Nicholls (Unison)

• Bridie McCreesh (Unite)

• Kelley Pinkney (USDAW)

• Margaret Clarke (GMB?)

National Women's Committee

NWC CLP Reps

Important to note this has a number of Women specific slates on top of the usual ones and links to their webpages are above.

LTW/LF Slate

• Angela Morey (LTW/LF) - 36 Nominations

• Sagal Abdi-Wali (Labour to Win)(LTW/LF) - 35 Nominations

• Lucy Smith (LTW/LF) - 33 Nominations

• Odiri Erheriene-essi (LTW/LF) - 32 Nominations

• Nazia Rehman (LTW/LF )- 31 Nominations

• Alison Gray (LTW/LF) - 30 nominations

Momentum Slate

• Jean Crocker (Momentum) - 25 Nominations

• Sandra Wyman (Momentum) - 21 Nominations

• Caoimhe Ni Dhonaill (Momentum) - 17 Nominations

• Rathi Guhadasan (Momentum) - 11 Nominations

CLPD/Labour Women Lead Slate

• Ann Henderson (Labour Women Lead/CLPD) - 26 Nominations

• Emina Ibrahim (Labour Women Lead/CLPD) - 12 Nominations

Labour Women United Slate

• Nikki Belfield (Labour Women United) - 16 Nominations

• Catherine McLean (Labour Women United) - 16 Nominations

• Saranya Thambirajah (Labour Women United) - 15 Nominations

Labour Women's Declaration Slate

• Miriam Rice (Labour Women’s Declaration) - 16 Nominations

• Lynne Troughton (Labour Women’s Declaration) - 13 Nominations

Independent

• Sree Radhika Settipalli (Independent) - 15 Nominations

NWC TU Reps

Elected unopposed

• Jacqueline Keddie (Unison)

• Abbey Gutteridge (Community)

• Emily Rowles (USDAW)

• Holly Williamson (GMB)

• Maria Exall (CWU)

• Suzanne Abachor (Unite)

National Policy Forum

I have not done a full analysis here yet, but do give a link to an analysis of the CLP Nominations

• Nominations for the NPF CLP Reps by faction

Roles up for Election

The following national positions are also up for election. The type of election is listed and where this is a full or part large OMOV ballot for some or all members this is underlined. Ones where all or some CLPs can nominate are marked in Red.

National Executive Committee:

• Treasurer - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by members & 50% elected by TUs

• 9 CLP Representatives - elected by members in an OMOV ballot

• Welsh Rep - elected by members in an OMOV ballot

• Youth Rep - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by Youth members & 50% elected by TUs

• Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Rep - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by BAME members & 50% elected by TUs

• Disabled members’ Rep - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by Disabled members & 50% elected by TUs

• 2 Local Government Representatives - elected by Cllrs in an OMOV ballot

• 3 Backbench MPs - elected by MPs 

National Constitutional Committee:

• 4 CLP Representatives - elected by CLP conference delegates 

• 4 Trade Union Representatives -elected by TUs

• 1 Socialist Societies Representative -elected by Socialist Societies

National Policy Forum:

• 5 CLP representatives, including one youth representative, from each of the eleven nations and regions - elected by conference delegates

• Other NPF reps are appointed by their nominating body 

• NEC members are ex-officio

Conference Elected Role

• 2 Auditors - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by CLP delegates & 50% elected by TUs

National Women’s Committee:

• 6 CLP representatives - elected by CLP delegates 

• 6 Trade Union Representatives - elected by TUs

• Local Government Rep - elected by the ALC

• Socialist Societies Rep - elected by Socialist Societies 

• PLP Rep - elected by MPs

Spring 2026 Elections - Labour Students and Young Labour

Labour Students (officers, regional and other representatives) and the Young Labour National Committee (officers, trade union, socialist society and regional representatives) will be elected in spring 2026, so that committees are in place before university freshers’ fairs.  

Two main slates so far:

• Organise backed by Labour to Win, Labour First and Progress

• Renew backed by people from Mainstream, Open Labour and Momentum

Original Election Result

My tweet on the results here. In summary:

• In the balloted seats Organise slate seems 2 have won 10-8 on Young Labour Executive & 20-3 on Labour Students Executive compared to Renew slate based on latter's score.

• Important 2 note here that there were 18 Ballot places on Young Labour Committee & 23 on Labour Students which are not the only Executive places as on Young Labour there are TU/Soc Soc/Coop/Lab Stud/NEC+NPF reps which add 16 for a total of 34 plus also Wales/Scottish Labour Student reps on Lab Students exec for a total of 25.

• As a result of above, it's a rough estimate, but I would expect the composition of the two Committees would be:

  • Young Labour: Organise + allies 23, Renew + allies 11 - new committee is here and will be listed here.

  • Labour Students: Organise 22, Renew 3 

Re-Run Election Results

Note:  16/03/26 - Due to what looks like an administrative error, (use of 12 months freeze date instead of 6 months) both elections are now being rerun. New results will be posted below.

In summary and based on the Renew slate report here:

• In the balloted seats Organise slate seems 2 have won 13-5 on Young Labour Executive & 22-1 on Labour Students Executive compared to Renew slate based on latter's score.

• Important 2 note here that there were 18 Ballot places on Young Labour Committee & 23 on Labour Students which are not the only Executive places as on Young Labour there are TU/Soc Soc/Coop/Lab Stud/NEC+NPF reps which add 16 for a total of 34 plus also Wales/Scottish Labour Student reps on Lab Students exec for a total of 25.

• As a result of above, it's a rough estimate, but I would expect the composition of the two Committees would be:

  • Young Labour: Organise + allies 26, Renew + allies 8 - new committee will be listed here.

  • Labour Students: Organise 24, Renew 1 

Upcoming events - unused at present

Past events - unused at present