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The Ceylon Labour Party (CLP) was a political party in Sri Lanka.
History
The party was established by A. Ekanayake Gunasinha in 1928. Having already set up the Ceylon Labour Union, Gunasinha modelled the new party on the British Labour Party having visited the UK in 1927 and been encouraged to set up a new party by Labour Party members. In 1929 he left the nationalist Ceylon National Congress.
Gunasinha was elected to the State Council in the 1936 elections, and was re-elected in the 1947 elections, in which the party won a single seat. Gunasinha subsequently became a minister in D. S. Senanayake's government. He was re-elected again in the 1952 parliamentary elections as the party's sole MP. After failing to win any seats in the 1956 elections, the party did not contest any further elections.