Saint Helena Progressive Party

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Saint Helena Progressive Party
Founded1973
Dissolvedc. 1976
Legislative Council of Saint Helena (1976)
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The Saint Helena Progressive Party was a political party on the island of Saint Helena (a British crown colony). The party favoured retaining economic links with the United Kingdom.[1]

The Saint Helena Progressive Party was founded in 1973.[2] Its founders included eleven of the twelve members of the Legislative Council of Saint Helena elected in 1972. The party emerged following a rise in political awareness on the island, partly due to economic stringency caused by increased international inflation.[3]

The Saint Helena Progressive Party secured eleven out of twelve Legislative Council seats in the September 1976 election.[4] However, the party appears to have become defunct around 1976, around the same time as its rival, the Saint Helena Labour Party.[2]

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