Saint Helena Progressive Party

The Saint Helena Progressive Party was a political party on the island of Saint Helena (a British crown colony). The party favoured retaining economic links with the United Kingdom.^[1]

Saint Helena Progressive Party
Founded	1973
Dissolved	c. 1976
Legislative Council of Saint Helena (1976)	11 / 12
Politics of Saint Helena Political parties Elections

The Saint Helena Progressive Party was founded in 1973.^[2] Its founders included eleven out of twelve members of the Legislative Council of Saint Helena elected in 1972. The emergence of political parties on Saint Helena followed an increase in political awareness of the population on the island, after economic stringency measures had been adopted as a consequence of increased international inflation.^[3]

The Saint Helena Progressive Party won eleven out of twelve Legislative Council seats in the September 1976 election.^[4] The party appears to have become defunct around 1976, at a similar point in time as its adversary the Saint Helena Labour Party.^[2]

References

1. Olson, James Stuart; Shadle, Robert (1996). Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 974. ISBN 978-0-313-29367-2.
2. The Europa Year Book. Europa Publications. 1974. p. 2832. ISBN 978-0-946653-15-7.
3. Cross, Tony (1980). St Helena: Including Ascension Island and Tristan Da Cunha. David & Charles. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7153-8075-8.
4. EUROPA WORLD YRBK 1991 2V. Taylor & Francis. 1991. p. 3851. ISBN 9781857430776.