National Democratic Party (British Guiana)

The National Democratic Party (NDP) was a political party in British Guiana led by .

History[]

The NDP was created as a spin-off from the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP).^[1] The party contested 15 of the 24 constituencies in the 1953 general elections,^[2] and was backed by the media, as well as the LCP, the Manpower Citizens' Association and other trade unions. Its support base was largely among the middle-class Afro-Guyanese population, although it also had some middle-class Indo-Guyanese and Portuguese members, including Lionel Luckhoo.^[1]^[3] Prior to the elections, two splinter groups left the party to form the People's National Party and the United Guiana Party.^[3]

The elections saw the party receive 13% of the vote, winning only two of the 24 seats in the House of Assembly, taken by Kendall (who won in New Amsterdam) and (Bartica and Interior).^[4]

In 1955 the party merged into the new United Democratic Party.^[5]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The PPP'S First Government, 1953, Library of Congress Country Studies.
^ Odeen Ishmael (2013), The Guyana Story, Xlibris Corporation, p. 126.^{[self-published source]}
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The election campaign in 1953, Guyana.org.
^ Historical information events and dates on the Parliament of Guyana from 1718 to 2006, Parliament of Guyana
^ Charles D. Ameringer (1993), Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 357.

[CS-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b The PPP'S First Government, 1953, Library of Congress Country Studies.

[OI-2] Odeen Ishmael (2013), The Guyana Story, Xlibris Corporation, p. 126.^{[self-published source]}

[G-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b The election campaign in 1953, Guyana.org.

[P-4] Historical information events and dates on the Parliament of Guyana from 1718 to 2006, Parliament of Guyana

[5] Charles D. Ameringer (1993), Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 357.

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