Cross-Community Labour Alternative

Cross-Community Labour Alternative is a minor political party founded to contest the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election. It stood three candidates^[3] in the East Belfast, South Belfast and East Antrim constituencies. It was initiated by the Socialist Party.^[4]

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Cross-Community Labour Alternative
Leader	Owen McCracken
Founded	2016
Headquarters	25 Ava Avenue Belfast BT7 3BP[1]
Ideology	Eco-socialism[2]
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NI Local Councils	0 / 462
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In the 2016 Assembly election, Cross-Community Labour Alternative reached 1939 first-preference votes, having stood 3 candidates. Conor Sheridan polled 551 first preference votes (1.7%) in East Antrim,^[5] Sean Burns got 871 first preferences (2.7%) in Belfast South^[6] and Courtney Robinson got 517 first preferences (1.4%) in Belfast East.^[7]

In the 2017 election, the CCLA stood four candidates, in the same three constituencies as before, and also in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.^[8] They won no seats and a slightly increased first-preference vote, with 2,009 votes (0.3%).

In the 2019 Northern Ireland local elections, one of the party's candidates, Donal O'Cofaigh, was elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.^[9] CCLA lost their only seat in the 2023 Council elections when Donal O'Cofaigh failed to retain his council seat.^[10] In the 2022 Assembly election CCLA ran O'Cofaigh as the party's only candidate.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Gerry Cullen stood for the CCLA in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency). He attracted 624 votes (1.2%).