Dominion Party
TheDominion Partywas a political party in theFederation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,led byWinston Field.
History
[edit]The party was established in 1956 by a merger of several political groups and the remains of theConfederate Party,which had disintegrated after its defeat in thefederal electionsin 1953.[1]However, by 1958 it had gained two more seats through by-elections.[1]
Although the party received the most votes in theJune 1958 general electionsin Southern Rhodesia, it was defeated by theUnited Federal Party,which won four more seats. It was also defeated by the UFP in theNovember 1958 federal elections,winning just eight of the 59 seats. In the1959 general electionsin Northern Rhodesia the party ran on a campaign of splitting the Federation into European and African areas.[2]It nominated nine candidates and won one seat.
In 1960 the party split; the Northern Rhodesian and Nyasaland branches formed the Federal Dominion Party.[1]The Southern Rhodesian branch was reconstituted in 1962 to form theRhodesian Front.[3]Both factions boycotted the1962 federal elections,[1]which the UFP was the only party to contest.
References
[edit]- ^abcdFederation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Dominion PartyPolitical Parties: A Cross-National Survey
- ^"Racial Issue In N. Rhodesia Elections: African Boycott",The Times,12 March 1959, p11
- ^Mark R Lipschutz & R Kent Rasmussen *(1989)Dictionary of African Historical Biography,University of California Press, p265
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