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The New Kenya Party was a political party in Kenya.
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The New Kenya Party was a political party in Kenya.
With encouragement from Governor Evelyn Baring and Secretary of State for the Colonies Alan Lennox-Boyd, the New Kenya Group was established on 2 April 1959 by Michael Blundell. [1] [2] It was the first multi-racial political party in Kenya, and was founded to counter African nationalism and European conservatism. [2] In response, Llewellyn Briggs set up the United Party in August 1959, which opposed common-roll elections, but was defunct by the end of 1960. [3]
In 1960 it became the New Kenya Party, which called for independence with a multiracial coalition government. [2] In the 1961 general elections the party received 3.2% of the vote, winning four of the 53 elected seats in the Legislative Council, and joined the coalition government led by the Kenya African Democratic Union. [4]
The party was dissolved in 1963. [4]
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