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, Ms.

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History

The United Progressive Party was formed in 2017 and Lynette Eastmond was chosen to lead the new party after much media speculation concerning the political ambitions of Eastmond herself. Early in the party's history another former BLP member who turned independent parliamentary member, Dr. Maria Agard,

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to join the UPP. Agard subsequently dropped out of the party just prior to the election deciding to no longer contest the current election. In November, 2017 the party announced a manifesto outlining its party agenda for Barbados. This was announced under the banner of "The New Economy Manifesto" and the "Orange Econom

in line with the party's chosen colour of orange. After discussions with another new Barbados party called the Citizens Action Partnershipbr>
led by Wendell Callender both parties agreed to merge the CAP into the UPP in December 201

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dissolved parliament and called elections for 19 January 2022. The next week, on the 31 December 2021, leader of the

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and Eastmond announced an

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between their two parties to contest the 2022 general elections as the

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. It is headed by Atherley with Eastmond becoming deputy head.

Party officers

During the August Congress of the UPP the following were elected as officers for the UP

* Chairman – Lynette Eastmond * First Deputy Chairman – Everton Holligan * Second Deputy Chairman – Maria Phillips * Secretary – Peter Bridgeman * First Assistant Secretary – Edison Bynoe * Second Assistant Secretary – Sandra G. Corbin * Treasurer – Ambrose Grosvenor * First Assistant Treasurer – Bruce Hennis * Second Assistant Treasurer – Hudson Griffith * Public Relations Officer – Wayne T. Griffith

Electoral results & performance

For the Barbados House of Assembly's 2018 Barbados general election, 2018 general election, the UPP won 1.3 per cent of the vote losing the one seat of Christ Church West, held by new UPP's member, Dr. Agard back to the Barbados Labour Party. The BLP had a historic landslide election securing 74.58 per cent of the 150,141 total votes. and winning all 30 of the seats in the House of Assembly. The party announced it would be contest in future Barbados elections. For

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, the UPP formed an electoral alliance with the

(PdP) and formed the

and ran under that banner.

2018 candidates

The UPP had 23 candidates out of 30 in the 2018 general election. These were: * Victor Knight (Christ Church East) * Ogeji Dottin (Christ Church East-Central) * Nadja Willis (Christ Church South) * Ria Riley (Christ Church West-Central) * Roli Roachford (St. Andrew) * Everton Holligan (St. George North) * Craig Harewood (St. George South) * Grafton Cobham (St. James North) * Christal Austin (St. James South) * Wendall Callendar (St. James Central) * Hudson Griffith (St. John) * Wayne Griffith (St. Lucy) * Richard Barrow (St. Michael Central) * Paul Forte (St. Michael East) * Maria Philips (St. Michael North) * Sandra Corbin (St. Michael South) * David Gill (St. Michael South Central) * Veronica Price (St. Michael South East) * Patsie Nurse (St. Michael West) * Herman Lowe (St. Michael West Central) * Nigel Newton (St. Philip North) * Bruce Henis (St. Philip South) * Lynette Eastmond (City of Bridgetown)

Social outreach

The UPP uses several forms of Internet mediums to reach out to new and existing supporters. This includes:

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, and

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feeds.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:United Progressive Party (Barbados) Political parties in Barbados Social democratic parties Political parties established in 2017 2017 establishments in Barbados