The West Indian National Congress Party was a political party in Barbados.

History

The party was established in 1944 by

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as a breakaway from the Barbados Progressive League.Gary Lewis (1999)
White Rebel: The Life and Times of TT Lewis
', p87Charles D. Ameringer (1992)
Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies
', pp74–75 In the November 1944 elections it was one of the three parties that won eight of the 24 seats each, and formed a coalition government with the Progressive League. The party won seven seats in the

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and three seats in

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. In the 1951 elections, the first under universal suffrage, the party was reduced to two seats. It did not run in subsequent elections.Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p91 Crawford contested the next elections in 1956 as a candidate of the Democratic Labour Party, another breakaway from the Progressive League (now renamed the Barbados Labour Party).

References

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