The Montserrat Democratic Party (MDP) was a political party in Montserrat .
5-510: The original Montserrat Democratic Party was established in 1958 and led by Eric Kelsick. It was only the second party founded in the country after the Montserrat Labour Party . In the May 1958 elections , it put forward two candidates, but received only 12% of the vote and failed to win a seat. The party was re-established in 2006. In the elections held later that year, it received 24.4% of
10-514: The 1952 elections , the first held under universal suffrage , the party won all five seats in the Legislative Council . It lost two seats in the 1955 elections , but won four seats in 1958 . Constitutional changes in 1960 created the post of Chief Minister , with MLP leader William Henry Bramble becoming the first person to hold the post. The party won five of the seven seats in the 1961 and 1966 elections . The 1970 elections were
15-544: The 2014 elections . This Montserrat -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Caribbean political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Montserrat Labour Party The Montserrat Labour Party (MLP) was a political party in Montserrat . The party was established in 1951, and was linked with the Montserrat Trades and Labour Union . In
20-643: The first occasion on which the MLP had faced serious opposition. Percival Austin Bramble , son of William, had previously been a member of the MLP and was elected to the Legislative Council as an MLP candidate in the 1966 elections. However, he subsequently broke away to form the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) as a result of controversy over the number of holiday and retirement homes being built on
25-507: The vote, winning one seat in the Legislative Council . Following the elections, it joined a coalition government with the New People's Liberation Movement and an independent MP. Although the NPLM had won three seats, MDP leader Lowell Lewis became Chief Minister . The party did not contest the 2009 elections , although Lewis ran as an independent and was elected. The party also failed to contest
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