Party of Independence and '48

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Party of Independence and '48
Függetlenségi és 48-as Párt
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The Party of Independence and '48 (

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History

The Party of Independence and '48 was established in 1884 by a merger of the Independence Party and the Party of 1848.[1] Lajos Kossuth was its spiritual leader until he died in 1894, and the party was also referred to as the "Kossuth Party" thereafter.[1] From the 1896 elections onwards, it was the main opposition to the ruling Liberal Party. It won the 1905 and 1906 elections, but it lost the 1910 elections to the National Party of Work.

By this time the party was beginning to split into factions. Ferenc Kossuth and Albert Apponyi led a right-wing grouping that supported an alliance with Germany, whilst Gyula Justh and later Mihály Károlyi led a left-wing faction that opposed working with Germany. In 1916 the party split when Károlyi left to establish the United Party of Independence and '48, with Károlyi becoming Prime Minister in 1918. Following World War I, the party was severely weakened. It failed to win a seat in the 1920 elections. It ran in the 1922 elections as the Independence and '48 Kossuth Party, winning one seat, which it retained in the 1926 elections.[2]

By 1931 the party had adopted its final name, the National Independence Kossuth Party (Hungarian: Országos Függetlenségi és Kossuth Párt). The elections that year saw it lose its single seat. In the 1935 elections it won a single seat, running on a joint list with the National Radical Party in one multi-member constituency.[3][4] The party did not contest the 1939 elections, and was dissolved on 13 April 1945 when it merged into the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party.

Election results

Election Votes % Seats +/– Status
1884
75 / 413
 – Opposition
1887
78 / 413
 Increase 3 Opposition
1892
86 / 413
 Increase 8 Opposition
1896
50 / 413
 Decrease 36 Opposition
1901
79 / 413
 Increase 29 Opposition
1905
165 / 413
 Increase 86 Opposition
1906
253 / 413
 Increase 88 In government
1910
51 / 413
 Decrease 202 Opposition
1920 14,928 1.3% (#6)
0 / 219
 Decrease 51 Extra-parliamentary
1922 33,220 2.03% (#9)
1 / 245
 Increase 1 Opposition
1926 13,564 1.17% (#8)
1 / 245
 Steady Opposition
1931 28,518 1.89% (#7)
0 / 245
 Decrease 1 Extra-parliamentary
1935[a] 5,648 0.29%
1 / 245
 Increase 1 Opposition
  1. ^ Joint list in one multi-member constituency with the National Radical Party

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-313-23804-9
  2. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p920
  4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p930
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