Local elections were held in the Federation of Malaya in 1955. "Penang polls". Eresources.nlb.gov.sg. 1955-10-27. Retrieved 2017-07-13. "Alliance again"...
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The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party (PMIP) was formed primarily to contest in the 1955 elections. Previously the PMIP had been known as the "Pan-Malayan Islamic...
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State council elections were held in Malaya from 27 September to 12 November 1955 in all states except Trengganu and Johore....
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The Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in the Federation of Malaya between communist fighters of the Malayan National Liberation...
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The Malayan Union (Malay: Kesatuan Malaya;[1] Jawi: كساتوان مالايا) was a union of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca...
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The Malayan Forum was an influential political discussion group formed in 1949 by Chinese and Malay university students. The forum held a key role in...
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knew "exactly" what their Malayan counterparts wanted. The Malay Union which ran together with UMNO and MCA in the 1955 election, had been expelled from...
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The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a Marxist–Leninist and anti-imperialist communist party which was...
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general election 1955 Malayan general election 1955 Philippine Senate election 1955 Singaporean general election 1955 Soviet Union regional elections 1955 State...
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Singapore Alliance Party (section Election Results)
contested several elections in Singapore, notably the 1955 Elections of Singapore and the 1963 Elections of Singapore. It consisted of the local branch of the...
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encompassed the Singapore Malay Union along with local branches of the Malayan Chinese Association and the Malayan Indian Congress, and former Chief Minister...
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Parti Rakyat Malaysia (redirect from Malayan People's Party)
Singaporean general election. The party contested as part of the Socialist Front in both the 1959 Malayan state and federal elections and the coalition...
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Malaysian Indian Congress (redirect from Malayan Indian Congress)
achieved independence in 1957 until the elections in 2018. The party was among the first to fight for Malayan Independence and is one of the oldest parties...
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Selangor and Pahang from 1938 to 1955 and president of the Pan-Malayan Association of Tin Miners between 1946 and 1955. At various times, he was president...
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election, the Alliance Party contested all 52 seats and won 51, while the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party won the remaining seat. Following the elections,...
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Tenaga Rakyat or Putera to join the All Malayan Council of Joint Action (AMCJA), which was then led by the Malayan Democratic Union (MDU). AMCJA crafted...
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K. L. Devaser (section Malayan Independence)
Kundan Lal Devaser was the fourth president of the Malayan Indian Congress from 1951 - 1955. It was under Devaser's presidency that the MIC joined the...
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General elections were held in Singapore on 2 April 1955 to elect members to the 25 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nomination day was on 28...
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Alliance (SPA) List of Malayan State and Settlement Council Representatives (1954–59) Members of the Federal Legislative Council (1955–59) Members of the...
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Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham (category UK MPs 1951–1955)
then as Shadow Minister of Housing and Local Government (1959–64). On May 21 1952 during the British Malayan headhunting scandal, Stewart asked Henry...
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V. T. Sambanthan (section First federal elections)
only 10 days and 5th President of the Malayan Indian Congress and later Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) from May 1955 to his removal from the party presidency...
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List of political parties in Singapore (category Elections in Singapore)
participated in the 1955 election. The Progressive Party and Labour Party, both established in the late 1940s, were some of the pioneering local establishments...
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Labour Party of Malaya (redirect from Pan-Malayan Labour Party)
formed as a confederation of state based labour parties known as the Pan-Malayan Labour Party (PMLP). The LPM's roots lay in the state labour parties that...
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arrested. On 27 May 1961, following the PAP's defeats in the two by-elections, Malayan Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman announced that, "sooner or later...
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Baling Talks (category Malayan Emergency)
29 December 1955 in an attempt to resolve the Malayan Emergency situation. The main participants were Chin Peng (representing the Malayan Communist Party)...
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Federation of Malaya (redirect from Malayan Federation)
commonly known as Malaya, was a country of what previously had been the Malayan Union and, before that, British Malaya. It comprised eleven states – nine...
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Tunku Abdul Rahman (category People of the Malayan Emergency)
with other Malayans. Chin Peng demanded that the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) be legalised and be allowed to participate in the elections.[citation needed]...
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independents. Three months after the elections, an armed insurgency by communist groups in Malaya – the Malayan Emergency – broke out, and the British...
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later described as setting a precedent for the powersharing multiracial Malayan and Malaysian cabinets post-independence. At 1951, Sir Henry Gurney, the...
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Abdul Razak Hussein (category Malayan people of World War II)
February 1955, at just 33 years of age, became Pahang's Chief Minister. Razak stood in and won a seat in Malaya's first general elections in July 1955 and...
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