The League converted rivals by absorbing their defecting deputies.

Evidence

And not without cause: of the 90 seats in the newly expanded Assembly only 29 were contested and of these the League won 22. Of the remaining seven seats, two went to the Liberal Party, and five to a break-away fragment of the H.D.M.S. which had ignored the official party boycott. Many former H.D.M.S. deputies had in fact changed sides and entered the new Assembly on the S.Y.L. ticket. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 413

Categorization

• XREF: This absorption of H.D.M.S. deputies into S.Y.L. directly feeds the final section of the chapter on the 1960 government. — connects to: Absorbing rivals turned the F.L.N. into a mass movement. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 440; Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence; Outbidding parties poach defectors from moderate rivals to consolidate in-group unity. — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 54

Related

• Absorbing rivals turned the F.L.N. into a mass movement. (similarity 0.84)
• The 1960 election eclipsed the N.U.F. and entrenched S.N.L. dominance (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Absorbing rivals turned the F.L.N. into a mass movement. #corroborates (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 440
• Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence #expands (0.40)