Republican Union (Portugal)

Portuguese political party

Republican Union Party

Partido da União Republicana

Abbreviation| PUR
Leader| Manuel de Brito Camacho
Founded| 24 February 1912
Dissolved| 1919
Split from| Portuguese Republican Party
Merged into| Republican Liberal Party
Ideology| Conservatism [1][2]
Political position| Center-right

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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.

## History

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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.[3][4] 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,[5] 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.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Ernesto Castro Leal (2008), Partidos e Programas O campo partidário republicano português 1910-1926, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
2. ^ VIEIRA, Duarte Pedro Cação (2019). A Burguesia às Urnas? - O Voto na 1ª República (As Eleições de 1922) (PDF) (Masters thesis). Lisbon: ISCTE IUL. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
3. ^ a b Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1548 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
4. ^ Vincent E. McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe: Poland-Yugoslavia, Greenwood Press, p762
5. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1557

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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–)|

* Christian Democratic Party
* Communist Electoral Front
* Communist Party (Reconstructed)
* Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist)
* Democratic Party of the Atlantic
* Democratic Renewal Party
* Democratic Republican Party
* Hope for Portugal Movement
* Humanist Party
* Independent Movement for the National Reconstruction / Party of the Portuguese Right
* Independent Social Democratic Action
* 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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