In 1970, he ran for re-election, defeating Centre Party challenger Thomas Bashford with 63% of the vote. He ran for re-election again in 1974, defeating Rhodesia Party candidate Peter Bridger and the independent Wendy Ann Truen with 66% of vote. He ran for re-election for the last time in 1977, defeating with 74% of the vote challengers Lance Halford Reynolds of the National Unifying Force, Robert Sutton of the Rhodesian Action Party, and the independent Wendy Ann Truen. In the years following Zimbabwe's independence, Hamilton Ritchie emigrated to South Africa and continued to practice dentistry. He died there in 1999. Electoral history References 1918 births 1999 deaths People from Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Royal Air Force Medical Service officers British dentists British emigrants to Rhodesia Rhodesian dentists White Rhodesian people Rhodesian Front politicians Members of the Parliament of Rhodesia People from Harare Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Zimbabwean emigrants to South Africa South African dentists Zimbabwean expatriates in South Africa 20th-century surgeons 20th-century dentists British expatriates in Jamaica