Editing Hubert Ingraham (section)

==Opposition==

Ingraham stood as an independent candidate in the 1987 general election and was one of only two Members of Parliament expelled from the ruling PLP to have gone on to immediate re-election as an independent.

Ingraham joined the [[Official Opposition]] in April 1990, and was immediately appointed Parliamentary Leader. When the Leader of the Opposition, Sir [[Cecil Wallace-Whitfield]], died in May 1990, Ingraham was unanimously elected Leader of the [[Free National Movement]] and was appointed [[Leader of the Opposition (Bahamas)|leader of the opposition]] on 18 May 1990, by Sir [[Henry Milton Taylor]], the [[Governor-General of the Bahamas|Governor-General]]. In June 1990, as freshman Leader of the Free National Movement, he led his party to a Marco City, [[Grand Bahama]], by-election victory over the governing party.  In the [[1992 Bahamian general election|general election of 19 August 1992]], Ingraham led the Free National Movement to a stunning 32–17 victory over the [[Progressive Liberal Party]], and thus ended the 25-year hold on power of Prime Minister Sir [[Lynden Pindling]].