Another election in late 1963 had given a slim majority to a coalition of two political parties, the ZNP (the Zanzibar Nationalist Party) and the ZPPP (the Zanzibar and Pemba Peoples Party).
Uchaguzi mwingine uliofanyika mwishoni mwa mwaka 1963 ukiipa ushindi mdogo wa kura Muungano wa vyama viwili ZNP na (chama cha kizalendo Zanzibar) na ZPPP (Chama cha watu wa Pemba na Unguja).