• Local elections were held in the Federation of Malaya in 1957. "The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Dec. 10, 1957. Reverse For Alliance". nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved...
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    General elections were held in the Federation of Malaya on Wednesday, 27 July 1955, the only general election before independence in 1957. They were held...
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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 Emergency, also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War, (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in the Federation of Malaya between...
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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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    The Anglo-Malayan Defence Agreement (AMDA) was set up on 19 September 1957 to provide a security umbrella for the newly independent Malaya. AMDA was a...
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    of the Merdeka mission to London and the only Chinese signatory of the Malayan independence agreement with Britain. He was the only major leader of the...
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    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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    on 31 August 1957; prior to this, Federation of Malaya (formerly Malay States) had been a fully self-governing British colony. The Malayan Union came into...
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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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    country 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...
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    The Malayan Declaration of Independence (Malay: Pemasyhuran Kemerdekaan Tanah Melayu Jawi: ڤمشهوران کمرديکاءن تانه ملايو), was officially proclaimed on...
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    The Malayan Peoples' Socialist Front (Malay: Barisan Sosialis Rakyat Malaya) or better known as Socialist Front (SF) or Barisan Sosialis (BS) was a left-wing...
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    Constitution of the Federation of Malaya prior to Malayan independence from the United Kingdom on 31 August 1957. Wikisource has original text related to this...
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    Council passed the Malayan Constitution (later, the Malaysian Constitution) on August 15, 1957. Malaya gained independence on August 31, 1957. The Federal Legislative...
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    Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) Singapore People's Alliance (SPA) List of Malayan State and Settlement Council Representatives (1954–59) Members of the Federal...
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  • machinery in the Malayan context. According to Rajeswary Ampalavanar, author of The Indian Minority and Political Change in Malaya 1954-1957, the MIC leadership...
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  • the 1956, 1957 and 1958 local elections in Malacca. Although it failed to win a seat in the 1959 state elections, in the 1959 general elections it won one...
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    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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    Independence Day (Malaysia) (category 1957 in Malaya)
    Malaya from the British Empire. It commemorates the Malayan Declaration of Independence of 31 August 1957, and is defined in article 160 of the Constitution...
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    contest the first Malayan General Election in 1955. Kuala Lumpur gained historical significance again in 1957 when the first Malayan flag was raised on...
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    Selous Scouts. The Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war between the Federation of Malaya—a protectorate of Britain until August 1957, and part of the Commonwealth...
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    as the Malayan Union in 1946 until 1948 when it was restructured as the Federation of Malaya. The country achieved independence on 31 August 1957. On 16...
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    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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    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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    Stadium on 31 August 1957, marking a transition into a new era of Malayan and Malaysian politics. In Malaya's first general elections in 1959, the Alliance...
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    List of political parties in Singapore (category Elections in Singapore)
    tally does not include city council elections, by-elections, Malaysian parliamentary elections or presidential elections (the latter which requires nonpartisan...
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    two posts to be held concurrently by him from 1957 till 1959. When Ismail led the independent Malayan delegation to the General Assembly, he carried...
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    Alliance, which was later joined by the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC), won convincing victories in local and state elections in both Malay and Chinese areas between...
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    Treaty of London (1956) (category Treaties entered into force in 1957)
    independent Federation of Malaya, which achieved its independence on 31 August 1957. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Federation of Malaya...
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