United National Kadazan Organisation
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United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation
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| Abbreviation | UPKO |
| Founder | Fuad Stephens |
| Founded | 1961 |
| Dissolved | 1967 |
| Succeeded by | United Sabah National Organisation |
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.
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. 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. The party dissolved in 1967 and was absorbed by USNO.
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