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Towards Nemesis, 1957–67

In: White Farmers in Rhodesia, 1890–1965

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  • Richard Hodder-Williams

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The election of Winston Field to the Federal Parliament in 1957 marked the first time since 1924 that the Marandellas District had been represented by a member of the opposition. Within a few months, there were territorial elections which showed a marked swing away from Godfrey Huggins’s United Federal Party to the new opposition party called the Dominion Party. In 1954, Noel Wingfield had polled 67.2 per cent of the vote; in 1958 John Duncan, the UFP candidate, could manage only 38.5 per cent, although the issue was complicated by the intrusion of a candidate from Garfield Todd’s more liberal United Rhodesia Party who collected 12.0 per cent of the vote. The Dominion Party thus won fractionally less than half the votes, but gained the seat; in the colony at large it won more votes than any other party but fewer seats than the United Federal Party. Both nationally and locally, there was almost an exact balance between the forces of conservatism and the forces of change.

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  • Richard Hodder-Williams, 1983. "Towards Nemesis, 1957–67," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: White Farmers in Rhodesia, 1890–1965, chapter 8, pages 206-224, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04895-3_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04895-3_9
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