The National Democratic Party (NDP) was a political party in

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led by Rudy Kendall.

History

The NDP was created as a spin-off from the

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(LCP).The PPP'S First Government, 1953

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. The party contested 15 of the 24 constituencies in the 1953 general elections, and was backed by the media, as well as the LCP, the

Manpower Citizens' Association The Manpower Citizens' Association was a trade union and political party in British Guiana. History The MPCA was first registered in 1937, and was initially led by Ayube Mohamed Edun.Afro-Guyanese Afro-Guyanese are generally descended from the enslaved people brought to Guyana from the coast of West Africa to work on sugar plantations during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Coming from a wide array of backgrounds and enduring conditio ...

population, although it also had some middle-class

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and

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members, including

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.The election campaign in 1953
Guyana.org. Prior to the elections, two splinter groups left the party to form the People's National Party and the United Guiana Party. The elections saw the party receive 13% of the vote, winning only two of the 24 seats in the

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, taken by Kendall (who won in

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) and

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(Bartica and Interior).Historical information events and dates on the Parliament of Guyana from 1718 to 2006
Parliament of Guyana In 1955 the party merged into the new United Democratic Party.Charles D. Ameringer (1993), ''Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies'', Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 357.

References

{{Authority control Defunct political parties in Guyana Political parties disestablished in 1955 1955 disestablishments in British Guiana