The People's Progressive Movement was a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate) ...
. It first contested national elections in
1956
Events
January
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, when it received 1.7% of the vote, but failed to win a seat.
[Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p93 ] It did not contest the
1961 elections, but returned in
1966, when it received just 0.4% of the vote,
[Nohlen, p92] again failing to win a seat.
References
Defunct political parties in Barbados
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