The election broke the white oligarchy’s hold on government and enabled Lynden Pindling’s Progressive Liberal Party to form a government with supporting members. The change followed organizing against unequal political power. It marked majority rule within the colonial setting; Bahamian independence from Britain came later, in 1973.
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The majority-rule breakthrough occurred within the colonial setting and preceded formal independence.