United Rhodesia Party

United Rhodesia Party

The name United Rhodesia Party and the acronym, URP, refer to two political parties in Southern Rhodesia.

The first was the party, led by Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins, and which in 1933 came to power in the colony. It was informally known as the United Party, later formally known as the United Federal Party (UFP).

The second is the party founded and led by former UFP premier of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Garfield Todd, during the time in which Southern Rhodesia was one of three territories within the Central African Federation (CAF). This revived URP, which stood to the left of the more centrist UFP, merged with the latter in 1958 following Todd's defeat in the Territorial elections and the victory of the UFP, led at the time by Sir Edgar Whitehead.


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