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The UP had a clear majority at every election between 1934 and 1958 except 1946, when Huggins still managed to remain as Prime Minister. When in 1953 the Federation Of Rhodesia And Nyasaland came into being and the colony of Southern Rhodesia became a territory alongside Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland , the United Party changed its name to the United Rhodesia Party, and in 1958 yet another merger took place, when the United Rhodesia Party merged with the Federal party to form the United Federal Party. In the same year the party split following the sacking of the liberal Garfield Todd , who unsuccessfully contested the 1958 general election as head of a revived United Rhodesia Party. In 1962 the United Federal Party lost the General Election to the more conservative Rhodesian Front , and ceased to function effectively as a political force after the 1965 election and UDI . SEE ALSO REFERENCES Rasmussen, R. K., & Rubert, S. C., 1990. ''A Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe'', Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, United States of America. |
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