General elections were held in the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the a ...
on 10 January 1967. The result was a tie between the
Progressive Liberal Party
The Progressive Liberal Party ( abbreviated PLP) is a populist and social liberal party in the Bahamas. Philip Davis is the leader of the party.
History
The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton T ...
and the
United Bahamian Party
The United Bahamian Party (UBP) was a major political party in the Bahamas in the 1950s and 1960s. Representing the interests of the white oligarchy known as the Bay Street Boys, it was the ruling party between 1958 and 1967.Dieter Nohlen (2005), ...
, both of which won 18 seats. In a reversal of the previous election (in which the PLP received the most votes but the UBP won the most seats), this time the PLP received a lower share of the vote than the UBP, but was able to form the country's first black-led government with the support of the sole
Labour Party MP
Randol Fawkes
Sir Randol Francis Fawkes (20 March 1924 – 15 June 2000) was a Bahamian politician, trade unionist and lawyer.
He served as Member of Parliament for the St. Barnabas constituency and for a short time as a Cabinet Minister in the first Pindlin ...
.
An Informal History of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, 1955-1985
Bahamian Fragments
Results
Elected MPs
References
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Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the a ...
1967 in the Bahamas
Elections in the Bahamas
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the a ...
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results