Randol Fawkes
Sir Randol Francis Fawkes (20 March 1924 – 15 June 2000)
He served as Member of Parliament for the St. Barnabas constituency and for a short time as a Cabinet Minister in the first
Career
Fawkes is best remembered for the part he played in swinging the Bahamas' 1967 general election to bring about black "majority rule".
In 1967, the Bahamas was a
The predominantly white United Bahamian Party (UBP) government called a snap election in January 1967. Of the 38 seats contested, the ruling UBP won 18 seats and the black Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), which had previously only won six seats, won 18 seats.[2][4] Alvin Braynen, an independent, won 1 seat and Fawkes, leader of the Labour Party (which had fielded four candidates), won one seat.[2][4]
Fawkes and Braynen threw their votes behind the Pindling-led PLP making it the first time that the Bahamas was run by a black government ("majority rule").[4]
Braynen became the
In 1972 Fawkes founded a new political party, the Commonwealth Labour Party but it failed to win any seats.
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