The Dominion Party was a political party in the

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation (CAF), was a colonial federation that consisted of three southern African territories: the Self-governing colony, self-governing British colony of Southern ...

, led by

Winston Field Winston Joseph Field (6 June 1904 – 17 March 1969) was a British politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. Field was a former Dominion Party MP who founded the Rhodesian Front political party with Ian Smith. ...

History

The party was established in 1956 by a merger of several political groups and the remains of the

Confederate Party The Confederate Party was a political party in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. History The party was formed in 1953 as a successor to the Democratic Party by opponents of the Federation. In the 1953 federal elections the party contes ...

, which had disintegrated after its defeat in the federal elections in 1953.Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Dominion Party
Political Parties: A Cross-National Survey However, by 1958 it had gained two more seats through by-elections. Although the party received the most votes in the June 1958 general elections in Southern Rhodesia, it was defeated by the

United Federal Party The United Federal Party (UFP) was a political party in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. History The UFP was formed in November 1957 by a merger of the Federal Party (Rhodesia and Nyasaland), Federal Party, which had operated at the fed ...

, which won four more seats. It was also defeated by the UFP in the November 1958 federal elections, winning just eight of the 59 seats. In the 1959 general elections in Northern Rhodesia the party ran on a campaign of splitting the Federation into European and African areas. It nominated nine candidates and won one seat. In 1960 the party split; the Northern Rhodesian and Nyasaland branches formed the Federal Dominion Party. The Southern Rhodesian branch was reconstituted in 1962 to form the

Rhodesian Front The Rhodesian Front (RF) was a conservative political party in Southern Rhodesia, subsequently known as Rhodesia. Formed in March 1962 by white Rhodesians opposed to decolonisation and majority rule, it won that December's general election and s ...

.Mark R Lipschutz & R Kent Rasmussen *(1989) ''Dictionary of African Historical Biography'', University of California Press, p265 Both factions boycotted the 1962 federal elections, which the UFP was the only party to contest.

References

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