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    General elections were due to be held for the Legislative Council in Nyasaland on 28 April 1964, and would have been the first in the country under universal...
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    dissolved, Nyasaland became independent from Britain on 6 July 1964 and was renamed Malawi. Nyasaland's history was marked by the massive loss of African communal...
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    a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and hosted its capital city, Salisbury. On 1 January 1964, the three parts of the Federation (Southern...
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    Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It existed between 1953 and 1963. The Federation was established on 1 August 1953, with a Governor-General as the Queen's representative...
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    General elections were held for the Legislative Council in Nyasaland in August 1961. The result was a victory for the Malawi Congress Party, which won...
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  • general election 1964 Malian parliamentary election 1964 Nigerian parliamentary election 1964 Northern Rhodesian general election 1964 Nyasaland general election...
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    General elections were held for the first time in Nyasaland on 15 March 1956. Although the Legislative Council was created in 1907, its membership had...
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  • Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,...
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    Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, under which Southern Rhodesia formed a united country with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, under the leadership of...
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    Cabinet Crisis 1964–1965 p. 179. O J M Kalinga, (2012). Historical Dictionary of Malawi. C Baker, (1997). State of Emergency: Nyasaland 1959,, I.B.Tauris...
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    Political history of Malawi (category Politics of Nyasaland)
    century. Malawi, then Nyasaland, effectively became a one-party state in August 1961, when the country held its first general elections, and the Malawi Congress...
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    Michael Hill Blackwood, who had previously led the UFP in Nyasaland. In the 1964 general elections the NCP won all three "special roll" seats reserved for...
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    Up-to-date; Being a General Sketch of Rhodesia . Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. pp. 177–180. Pearson Education. "Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation of"...
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  • The Nyasaland emergency of 1959 was a state of emergency in the protectorate of Nyasaland (now Malawi), which was declared by its governor, Sir Robert...
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    in 1898 and dropped from normal usage in 1964, on the break-up of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. "Rhodesia" then remained the name of the...
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  • Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,...
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    voters in the 1953 federal elections to the Assembly of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; the franchise for the elections was restricted to people...
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  • was replaced in 1964 by a Legislative Assembly, retaining a seat in the latter in the 1964 Nyasaland general election, the last election in which a separate...
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    Rhodesia and Nyasaland—equivalent to today's Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, respectively—were joined in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known...
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  • Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,...
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  • Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,...
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  • and later Nyasaland. It becomes part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The country achieved full independence, as Malawi, in 1964. After independence...
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    Malawi Congress Party (category 1959 establishments in Nyasaland)
    In the 1961 Nyasaland elections, the MCP won all the seats in the legislature and later led Nyasaland to independence as Malawi in 1964. When Malawi...
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    Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,...
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    p10, Issue 54416 "Election Move By Africans" The Times, 23 December 1958 David C. Mulford (1964) The Northern Rhodesian General Election 1962, Oxford University...
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    United Federal Party (category 1957 establishments in Nyasaland)
    saw the UFP win 13 of the 20 elected seats. In the August 1961 elections in Nyasaland the Malawi Congress Party won 22 seats (including two upper roll...
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  • The Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) was an organisation that evolved into a political party in Nyasaland during the colonial period. The NAC was suppressed...
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    voting took place on election day for the first time since the 1961 elections in what was then the British protectorate of Nyasaland. All prospective candidates...
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    Hastings Banda (category Nyasaland African Congress politicians)
    to Nyasaland to speak against colonialism and advocate independence from the United Kingdom. He was formally appointed Prime Minister of Nyasaland, and...
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    Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formed, with all territories electing members to the federal Legislative Assembly. The first federal elections were held in...
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