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unusual facts about United Party



Anlo Youth Organisation

All the opposition parties, including the National Liberation Movement, Moslem Association Party, Northern People's Party, Ga Shifimo Kpee, Togoland Congress and the Anlo Youth Organisation merged to form the United Party, under the leadership of Kofi Abrefa Busia.

British Virgin Islands general election, 1983

The result was a victory for the opposition United Party led by Cyril Romney over the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) led by former Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt.

Frederick Lye

Frederick Arthur Lye (1881 – 3 October 1949) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party then of the Reform Party in the United Party coalition.

Harry Reginald Jenkins

Harry Reginald Jenkins (1881–1970) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Parnell in Auckland, New Zealand, representing the United Party.

Ossie Newton-Thompson

A lawyer, he ran successfully in 1961 for a seat in South African parliament, as the United Party candidate for Pinelands.


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Barend du Plessis

He also ran as the NP candidate in Florida in the same year and snatched the seat from the United Party.

Harry Schwarz

In March 1974 Chief Phatudi, Harry Schwarz and M. I. Mitchell (United Party MP), had discussions at Seshego.