About: Jamaica United Front

An Entity of Type: political party, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Jamaica United Front was a political party in Jamaica. It was a right wing small party and was first noticed when in 1980 it proposed a national unity government of the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party. It contested one seat in the 1983 Jamaican general election. The elections that year saw a mass boycott (turnout was just 2.7%) as the People's National Party protested against the government. The JUF received only 144 votes and failed to win a seat. It did not contest any further elections.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Jamaica United Front was a political party in Jamaica. It was a right wing small party and was first noticed when in 1980 it proposed a national unity government of the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party. They were involved in an attempted coup on June 23, 1980. The leader, Charles Johnson, had been a member of the United States Army, serving in Vietnam and was running a security company in Kingston. The coup was seen by the left as a plot by the CIA and by the Jamaican Labour Party (which had not been involved) as an excuse to bring in troops from Cuba prior to elections. Johnson was acquitted in 1981 when a witness was judged to be unreliable. It contested one seat in the 1983 Jamaican general election. The elections that year saw a mass boycott (turnout was just 2.7%) as the People's National Party protested against the government. The JUF received only 144 votes and failed to win a seat. It did not contest any further elections. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 32934910 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2188 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 988339653 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Jamaica United Front was a political party in Jamaica. It was a right wing small party and was first noticed when in 1980 it proposed a national unity government of the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party. It contested one seat in the 1983 Jamaican general election. The elections that year saw a mass boycott (turnout was just 2.7%) as the People's National Party protested against the government. The JUF received only 144 votes and failed to win a seat. It did not contest any further elections. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Jamaica United Front (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:party of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License