Republican Union (Portugal)

The Republican Union Party (Portuguese: Partido da União Republicana, PUR), commonly known as the Republican Union or the Unionist Party, was a political party in Portugal.

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History

The party was established on 24 February 1912 as the result of a split in the National Republican Union (UNR), with one faction breaking away to form the Evolutionist Party and the rump of the UNR becoming the Republican Union.[1][2] It won 15 seats in the House of Representatives and 11 seats in the Senate in the 1915 parliamentary elections, emerging as the third-largest faction after the Democratic Party.

The party boycotted the 1918 elections,[3] but returned to run in the 1919 elections, in which it won 17 House seats, regaining its place as the third-largest party.

In 1919 the party merged with the Evolutionist Party to form the Republican Liberal Party.[1]

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References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1548 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Vincent E. McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe: Poland-Yugoslavia, Greenwood Press, p762
Nohlen & Stöver, p1557

Defunct political parties in Portugal
Constitutional Monarchy (1834–1910)	Cartista Constituent Party Historic Party Liberal Regenerator Party Miguelist Portuguese Republican Party Portuguese Socialist Party Progressive Dissidence Progressive Party Reformist Party Regenerator Party Setembrismo
First Republic (1910–1926)	Catholic Centre Party Democratic Leftwing Republican Party Democratic Party Evolutionist Party Integralismo Lusitano Causa Monárquica National Republican Party Nationalist Republican Party Reconstitution Party Regionalist Party Republican Liberal Party Republican Union Union of Economic Interests
Ditadura Nacional (1926–1933)	National Syndicalists
Estado Novo (1933–1974)	Movement of Democratic Unity Movement of National Antifascist Unity National Union Portuguese Marxist–Leninist Committee Portuguese National Liberation Front Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades
Third Republic (1974–)	Communist Electoral Front Communist Party (Reconstructed) Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist) Democratic Party of the Atlantic Democratic Renewal Party Hope for Portugal Movement Humanist Party Internationalist Communist League Left-wing Union for the Socialist Democracy Left Revolutionary Front Marxist–Leninist Committee of Portugal Movement for the Sick Movement of Socialist Left National Solidarity Party New Democracy Party People's Socialist Front Politics XXI Popular Democratic Union Popular Unity Party Portuguese Democratic Labour Party Portuguese Democratic Movement Portuguese Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Socialist Party Worker–Peasant Alliance Workers Politics Communist Organisation Workers' Revolutionary Party

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