Progressive Party (Cape Colony)
Progressive Party | |
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Leaders | Cecil Rhodes, The Viscount Milner, Gordon Sprigg |
Founded | 1890 |
Dissolved | 1910 |
Succeeded by | Unionist Party |
Headquarters | Cape Town |
Ideology | Liberalism Protectionism Pro-Imperialism |
Political position | Centre-right |
The Progressive Party of the
History
The Progressive Party formed in the late 1890s from the pro-imperialist politics of politicians such as
They initially formed the opposition to the government of Prime Minister
They lost power on 2 February 1908, to the opposition South African Party under John X. Merriman. After this election the Progressives renamed themselves the "Union Party".
The similarly named "Progressive Movement" started in the neighbouring Transvaal in 1891 as a movement of wealthy foreign immigrants (or "Uitlanders") who opposed the Afrikaner government of the Transvaal. Just before Union, they became the "Progressive Association of the Transvaal".[1] They won 21 of the 69 seats in the 1907 elections, losing to Het Volk Party which won 39 seats.
After the creation of the Union of South Africa, the Union Party of the Cape, the Progressive Association of the Transvaal and the Constitutional Party of the Orange Free State merged to form the Unionist Party.
See also
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
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