The Sabah Chinese Association ( ms, Persatuan Cina Sabah, SCA) was a

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political party in the

North Borneo North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British Protectorate, British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo, which is present day Sabah. The territory of North Borneo ...

and the

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...

state of

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History

The party was established in October 1962 as

Borneo Utara National Party The Sabah Chinese Association ( ms, Persatuan Cina Sabah, SCA) was a Chinese political party in the North Borneo and the Sabah state of Malaysia. History The party was established in October 1962 as Borneo Utara National Party, a merger of the ...

, a merger of the United Party and the Democratic Party after encouragement from the Malayan Chinese Association.R.S. Milne & K.J. Ratnam (2014) ''Malaysia: New States in a New Nation'', Routledge, p138Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p771 Both parties had been founded earlier in the year; the United Party by Khoo Siak Chew in

Sandakan Sandakan (, Jawi: , ) formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the capital of the Sandakan District in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the second largest city in Sabah after Kota Kinabalu. It is located on the Sandakan Peninsula and east coast of ...

and the Democratic Party by Peter Chin in

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. It was later renamed the

Sabah National Party The Sabah Chinese Association ( ms, Persatuan Cina Sabah, SCA) was a Malaysian Chinese, Chinese political party in the Crown Colony of North Borneo, North Borneo and the Sabah state of Malaysia. History The party was established in October 1962 a ...

, before becoming the Sabah Chinese Association in 1965 when it merged with a non-political organisation by the same name. SCA's Peter Lo Sui Yin was the second Chief Minister of Sabah from 1965 to 1967.''Malaysia: Who’s Who Constitution Government & Politics'', Edition 2011, p1129, Kusuya Management Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur 2011, Following the merger, the new party contested the local elections in an alliance with the United Sabah National Organisation and the United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation. It won five seats in the 1967 state elections, and three seats in the 1969 general elections, and retained all three in the 1974 general elections, in which it was part of the

Barisan Nasional The National Front ( ms, Barisan Nasional; abbrev: BN) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties. It is also the third largest political coalition with 30 se ...

. However, it failed to win a seat in the 1976 state elections, defeated by the Sabah People's United Front in every seat it contested;Regina Lim (2008) ''Federal-state Relations in Sabah, Malaysia: The Berjaya Administration, 1976-85'', Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, p105 following the defeat, it was dissolved.

General election results

State election results

References

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