Parti Negara


The Parti Negara was a Malay-based political party which was formed by former leaders of the Independence of Malaya Party in 1954, and formally launched in February 1954. It was founded by Dato Sir Onn Jaafar, the first president of the United Malays National Organisation. He formed the party after losing an internal power struggle.
The party, which was constitutionally multi-ethnic, sought to create a niche for itself as a third force in the late fifties and early sixties but it failed miserably. The party did not gain significant support within the Malay community, and was derided by the UMNO-led Alliance Party for its alleged chauvinism. The only parliamentary seat Parti Negara ever won was in the 1959 general elections in Terengganu, by Onn himself.
With the death of Onn in 1962, Parti Negara eventually fizzled out. The seat that Onn won was won back by the Alliance in the subsequent by-election.

List of party leaders

President
#NameTook officeLeft officeRemarks
1Hamzah Abdullah28 February 195410 December 1955
2Onn Jaafar10 December 195519 January 1962
3Baba Ludek19 January 19623 January 1964

Secretary-General
#NameTook officeLeft officeRemarks
1Raja Ayoub Raja Bot28 February 195419 October 1954
2Onn Jaafar19 October 195410 December 1955
3Raja Ayoub Raja Bot10 December 195519 January 1962
4Garieb Abdul Raouf19 January 196223 October 1965

General election results

State election results