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The Nyasaland Constitutional Party (NCP) was a political party in Malawi.
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The Nyasaland Constitutional Party (NCP) was a political party in Malawi.
The party was established in April 1963 as a continuation of the Nyasaland branch of the United Federal Party. [1] It was led by Michael Hill Blackwood, who had previously led the UFP in Nyasaland. [2]
In the 1964 general elections the NCP won all three "special roll" seats reserved for Europeans (for which there were only 814 registered voters) unopposed. [3]
In 1966 Malawi became a one-party state with the Malawi Congress Party as the sole legal party. [4]
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The United Federal Party (UFP) was a political party in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
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The Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) was an organisation that evolved into a political party in Nyasaland during the colonial period. The NAC was suppressed in 1959, but was succeeded in 1960 by the Malawi Congress Party, which went to on decisively win the first universal suffrage elections in 1961, and to lead the country to independence as Malawi in 1964.
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General elections were due to be held for the Legislative Council in Nyasaland on 28 April 1964, and would have been the first in the country under universal suffrage. However, there were no opposition candidates to either the Malawi Congress Party in the general roll seats, or the Nyasaland Constitutional Party in the special roll seats, resulting in all 53 candidates winning without votes being cast.
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