The Montserrat United Workers' Movement (MWUM) was a political party in

Montserrat Montserrat ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, wit ...

led by Kenneth Allen.

History

The party was established in 1961.Howard A. Fergus (1985) ''Rule Britannia: Politics in British Montserrat'', University Centre, p84 In the

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later that year it won two of the seven seats in the

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; Allen lost in the

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constituency, but M Dyer won in Southern and J W Allen won in Northern.Fergus, p98 However, it did not contest any further elections.

References

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