United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation

This article is about the Sabahan political party of the 1960s. For the current manifestation of UPKO, formed in Sabah in 1994, see United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation.
United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation
Abbreviation UPKO
Founder Fuad Stephens
Founded 1961
Dissolved 1967
Succeeded by United Sabah National Organisation
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The United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation (UPKO) was a political party in Sabah at the time it became a state of Malaysia in the 1960s.

The party was founded by Donald Stephens in 1961 as the United National Kadazan Organisation (UNKO). Its core constituency was indigenous Sabahans. At the time of its founding it had approximately 20,000 members.[1]

Upon the formation of Malaysia in 1963, the party entered into a coalition with the United Sabah National Organisation (USNO), a Muslim party, and the Sabah Chinese Association to form a consociationalist government of the new state of Sabah. Stephens became the state's first chief minister.[1] In the same year, UNKO renamed itself the United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation (UPKO).

Stephens was forced out of the chief ministership in 1964 and became a federal minister.[2] The party dissolved in 1967 and was absorbed by USNO.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Lim, Regina (2008). Federal-state Relations in Sabah, Malaysia: The Berjaya Administration, 1976-85. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 42.
  2. ↑ Luping, Herman (14 September 2013). "Sabah foresees a brighter future". New Straits Times. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Former federal minister celebrates 80th birthday in style". Borneo Post. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
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