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The '''Movement for National Unity''' was a political party in [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]. It was formed shortly before the [[1984 Vincentian general election|1984 general elections]] by a split from the [[United People's Movement (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)|United People's Movement]] due to the refusal of most party members to disown [[Fidel Castro]]'s politics.<ref name=N1>[[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p. 596. {{ISBN|978-0-19-928357-6}}</ref> Some of the support for the Movement for National Unity was the result of absorbing former members of the disbanded [[Youlou United Liberation Movement]] of the 1970s.<ref>Mars, Perry. ''Ideology and change : the transformation of the Caribbean left''. [[Detroit]]: Wayne State University Press, 1998. p. 59.</ref>  The new party received 2.0% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. In the [[1989 Vincentian general election|1989 elections]] it increased its share of the vote to 2.4%, but remained seatless. However, in the [[1994 Vincentian general election|1994 elections]] it received 17.4% of the vote and won a single seat.<ref>Nohlen, pp. 603-604.</ref> In the same year it merged with the [[Saint Vincent Labour Party]] to form the [[Unity Labour Party]].

==Election results==
=== House of Assembly elections ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
!Election
!Leader
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!+/–
!Position
!Status
|-
|[[1984 Vincentian general election|1984]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Ralph Gonsalves]]
|855
|2.03%
|{{Composition bar|0|13|hex=#4F81BD}}
|{{steady}}
|{{increase}} 4th
|{{eliminated|Extra-parliamentary}}
|-
|[[1989 Vincentian general election|1989]]
|1,030
|2.35%
|{{Composition bar|0|15|hex=#4F81BD}}
|{{steady}}
|{{increase}} 3rd
|{{eliminated|Extra-parliamentary}}
|-
|[[1994 Vincentian general election|1994]]
|8,178
|17.42%
|{{Composition bar|1|15|hex=#4F81BD}}
|{{increase}} 1
|{{steady}} 3rd
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[Youlou United Liberation Movement]]

==References==
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{{Saint Vincent and the Grenadines political parties}}

[[Category:Defunct political parties in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]
[[Category:Socialist parties in North America]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1994]]
[[Category:1994 disestablishments in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]