General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 14 December 1962. Voters elected 65 members of the Legislative Assembly. The election was notable for bringing to power the Rhodesian Front, initially under Winston Field, which set the colony on the course for its eventual Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
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Generalelections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 14 December 1962. Voters elected 65 members of the Legislative Assembly. The election was notable...
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majority of seats in parliament. The elections were held following the Internal Settlement negotiated by the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith and...
Generalelections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 14 April 1939, the fifth elections since the colony of Southern Rhodesia was granted internal self-government...
African nationalists, was forced into an early election by the defection of twelve MPs from his Rhodesian Front party, which denied him the two-thirds majority...
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roughly represented Southern Rhodesian commercial and major agricultural interests. The UFP contested the 1962generalelection on a ticket of racial "partnership"...
some support (especially in Matabeleland) at the election. Representatives of the SouthernRhodesian administration visited Cape Town to confer with Jan...
was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962. His government was defeated in the 1962generalelection by the Rhodesian Front. Whitehead was...
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itself independent in November 1965, shortly after the previous elections; the Rhodesian Front government had always disliked the 1961 constitution and...
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a Rhodesian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. Field was a former Dominion Party MP who founded the Rhodesian Front...
black majority populations the next year. From 1962 the SouthernRhodesian government was led by the Rhodesian Front political party, with Ian Smith serving...
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standards. For example, the franchise for the first SouthernRhodesian Legislative Council election in 1899 contained the following requirement: voters...
Southern Rhodesia. This move was heavily opposed by the residents of Nyasaland, who feared coming under the domination of white Rhodesians. In 1962,...
franchise as elections to the Legislative Assembly, which excluded most Africans. Following three years of negotiations with the SouthernRhodesian government...
Party to form the government. Generalelections in Southern Rhodesia in December 1962 saw the UFP defeated by the new Rhodesian Front; the UFP winning 29...
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