The Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Committee (INDEC) was a splinter group of the

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(CND) in the

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. It was founded in April 1962 by CND members including

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and

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. The group stood candidates in the 1964 general election in

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and

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, but achieved a mere 1,534 votes.

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, ''Minor Parties at British Parliamentary Elections'' The following year, Arrowsmith re-emerged with the Radical Alliance. Again they stood in elections, but won only 163 votes in the

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, although

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did win 253 votes for the party in the prior Kingston upon Hull North by-election. The group appears to have then been dissolved.

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