Politics and government

Land reform in South Africa

Land reform in South Africa: post-1994 restitution, redistribution, and tenure reform programme under Constitution section 25, reversing 1913 Natives Land Act dispossession; includes the contested Expropriation Act of 2024 and land audit ownership figures.

Land reform in Zimbabwe

Land reform in Zimbabwe (Fast Track Land Reform Programme, FTLRP): redistribution of white-owned farmland to Black farmers, from Lancaster House-era resettlement after 1980 to the violent 2000 seizures, 2020 compensation, and 2024 tenure reform.

Land-use planning

Land-use planning is the public regulation and organization of land uses through plans, zoning, and impact assessment. Covers its US origins in 1930s county planning, OECD system variation, environmental and climate integration, and England's 2026 Land Use Framework.

Landon Dais

Landon Dais is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 77th district covering parts of the Bronx.

Landsgemeinde

The Landsgemeinde is the open-air popular assembly of a Swiss canton, where eligible voters elect the government and decide laws by a show of hands.

Landslide victory

Landslide victory: an election won by an exceptionally large margin, with no fixed legal definition; common benchmarks are 10-20 point popular-vote margins or about 70% of U.S. electoral votes, with examples from 1936, 1984, and recent global elections.

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Langdarma

Langdarma was the last emperor of the unified Tibetan Empire, reigning from about 838 to 842 and remembered in Buddhist tradition as the persecutor who ended its first flowering of monastic Buddhism.

Lanny Thomas

Lanny Thomas is an American Republican politician elected to the Georgia State Senate from the 53rd district, after 35 years in education and service as mayor of Trion.

Lansana Conté

Lansana Conté was a Guinean soldier and politician who served as President of Guinea from a 1984 military coup until his death in office in December 2008.

Lao Front for National Construction

The Lao Front for National Construction (Neo Lao Sang Xat) is Laos's principal mass organization, a political front led by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

Lao Issara

Lao Issara, meaning "Free Laos," was a Lao nationalist movement formed in 1945 to fight for independence from France; it proclaimed a government in Vientiane and dissolved in 1949.

Lao Patriotic Front

The Lao Patriotic Front (Neo Lao Hak Sat) was the political front of the communist Pathet Lao movement in Laos, founded in 1956 and led by Prince Souphanouvong.

Lao People's Revolutionary Party

The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and ruling communist party of Laos, founded in 1955 and in power without opposition since 1975.

Laphonza Butler

Laphonza Butler, American labor leader and EMILY's List president, served as Democratic U.S. Senator from California (2023-2024), appointed by Gavin Newsom to fill Dianne Feinstein's seat; third Black woman senator, did not seek full term.

Lara Bird

Lara Bird (Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey), SNP MP for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry since the 18 June 2026 by-election (majority 5,278); former SNP Westminster policy advisor, barrister (Middle Temple, 2025), noted for oath-crossing controversy.

Lara Wolters

Lara Wolters is a Dutch politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, best known as initiator of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

Larbi Ben M'hidi

Larbi Ben M'hidi (محمد العربي بن مهيدي) was an Algerian revolutionary leader, a founder of the FLN who launched the 1954 insurrection and was executed by France in 1957.

Largest remainder method

Largest remainder method (Hare–Niemeyer, Hamilton, Vinton method): quota-based proportional seat allocation; floor seats by Hare or Droop quota, leftover seats to largest remainders; satisfies quota but causes Alabama paradox.

Larinda Hooks

Larinda Hooks is an American Democratic politician and member of the New York State Assembly from the 35th district in Queens, including East Elmhurst, Corona, and Forest Hills.

LaRouche movement

LaRouche movement: political network founded by Lyndon LaRouche via the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), U.S. Labor Party, and Schiller Institute; began in SDS in 1968, moved right, ran eight presidential campaigns, conspiracy-theory publications.

Larry A. Thompson

Larry A. Thompson is an American politician and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 32nd district in the 2026 election, facing incumbent Representative Brad Sherman.

Larry Agran

Larry Agran is an American Democratic politician elected Mayor of Irvine, California in 2024, having earlier served as mayor from 2000 and on the city council since 1978.

Larry Craig

Larry Edwin Craig (born 1945) was Idaho's five-term U.S. Representative and three-term Republican Senator (1991–2009), chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, whose career ended amid the 2007 Minneapolis airport restroom arrest scandal.

Larry Craig scandal

The Larry Craig scandal: the June 11, 2007 restroom arrest of the Idaho Republican senator at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, his disorderly conduct guilty plea, failed plea withdrawal, and September 2007 resignation.

Larry Davis (Louisiana politician)

Larry Davis is an American Republican politician, licensed minister, and consultant from Livingston Parish, Louisiana, running for the US House in the state's 6th Congressional District in 2026.

Larry Gonzales (politician)

Larry D. Gonzales, Republican Texas state representative for House District 52 (Round Rock) from 2011 to 2018, Appropriations subcommittee chair and Sunset Advisory Commission chairman who resigned in June 2018 and was succeeded by James Talarico.

Larry Grooms

Larry Grooms is an American Republican politician who has represented District 37 in the South Carolina Senate since 1997, chairs the Senate Transportation Committee, and owns a convenience store chain.

Larry Hogan

Larry Hogan, born Lawrence Hogan Jr. in 1956, is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as the 62nd governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023.

Larry Householder

Larry Householder, Ohio Republican and twice House speaker (2001–2005, 2019–2020), was convicted in 2023 of leading a $60 million FirstEnergy bribery conspiracy to pass House Bill 6, sentenced to 20 years, and lost all appeals through the Supreme Court in 2026.