TheWest Indian National Congress Party was apolitical party inBarbados.
The party was established in 1944 byWynter Crawford as a breakaway from theBarbados Progressive League.[1][2] In theNovember 1944 elections it was one of the three parties that won eight of the 24 seats each, and formed a coalition government with the Progressive League.[2] The party won seven seats in the1946 elections and three seats in1948. In the1951 elections, the first underuniversal suffrage, the party was reduced to two seats. It did not run in subsequent general elections.[3] Crawford contested thenext elections in 1956 as a candidate of theDemocratic Labour Party, another breakaway from the Progressive League (now renamed the Barbados Labour Party).
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