ELS engages with local constituency Labour Parties and affiliated organisations during political campaigns, playing a role in winning and holding the key seat Edinburgh South for Labour candidate Ian Murray in the 2010, 2015 and 2017 general elections. ELS members also campaigned extensively in the high-profile Aberdeen Donside by-election in 2013. Recently, ELS has participated in the pro-Union Better Together campaign in advance of the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.