The Parti Negara ( also spelled Party Negara) was a Malay-based political party which was formed by former leaders of the

Independence of Malaya Party The Independence of Malaya Party ( ms, Parti Kemerdekaan Malaya) was a political party in British-ruled Malaya that stood for political independence. Founded by Onn Ja'afar after he left UMNO in 1951, it opposed the UMNO policy of Malay supr ...

(IMP) in 1953, and formally launched in February 1954. It was founded by Dato

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Onn Jaafar {{Table Oghamletters Onn is the Irish name of the seventeenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚑ, meaning " ash-tree", which is related to Welsh ''onn(en)'', from the root was *''ōs-, *osen'' 'ash'. Its phonetic value is The letter's Bríatha ...

, the first president of the

United Malays National Organisation The United Malays National Organisation ( Malay: ; Jawi: ; abbreviated UMNO () or less commonly PEKEMBAR), is a nationalist right-wing political party in Malaysia. As the oldest continuous national political party within Malaysia (since its ...

(UMNO), after losing an internal power struggle. The party, which was constitutionally multi-ethnic, sought to create a niche for itself as a third force in the late fifties and early sixties but it failed miserably. The party did not gain significant support within the Malay community, and was derided by the UMNO-led Alliance Party for its alleged chauvinism. The only

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seat Parti Negara ever won was in the 1959 general elections in

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, by Onn himself. With the death of Onn in 1962, Parti Negara eventuallyfizzled out. The seat that Onn won was won back by the Alliance in the subsequent by-election.

General election results

State election results

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