Movement for National Unity

The Movement for National Unity was a political party in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It was formed shortly before the 1984 general elections by a split from the United People's Movement due to the refusal of most party members to disown Fidel Castro's politics.^[1] 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.^[2] The new party received 2.0% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. In the 1989 elections it increased its share of the vote to 2.4%, but remained seatless. However, in the 1994 elections it received 17.4% of the vote and won a single seat.^[3] In the same year it merged with the Saint Vincent Labour Party to form the Unity Labour Party.

Election results

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Status
1984	Ralph Gonsalves	855	2.03%	0 / 13		4th	Extra-parliamentary
1989		1,030	2.35%	0 / 15		3rd	Extra-parliamentary
1994		8,178	17.42%	1 / 15	1	3rd	Opposition

^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p. 596. ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
^ Mars, Perry. Ideology and change : the transformation of the Caribbean left. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. p. 59.
^ Nohlen, pp. 603-604.