United Conservative Party

United Conservative Party
Founded 15 December 1953
Dissolved 11 May 1966
Merger of Traditionalist Conservative Party and a faction of the Social Christian Conservative Party
Merged into National Party
Headquarters Santiago de Chile
Ideology Conservatism
Political position Right-wing
Politics of Chile
Political parties
Elections

The United Conservative Party (Spanish: Partido Conservador Unido) was a right-wing Chilean party founded in December 1953 after the merger of the Traditionalist Conservative Party and parts of the Social Christian Conservative Party, issued from the Conservative Party. It supported for the 1958 presidential election the candidacy of Jorge Alessandri and participated, along with the Liberal Party and supporters of former president Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, in its government. In 1962, it participated in the Democratic Front of Chile center-right coalition which opposed the left-wings FRAP coalition and supported for the 1964 presidential election Eduardo Frei Montalva (who obtained less than 56% of the votes).

Following the low results obtained at the 1965 legislative elections, the United Conservative Party merged in 1966 with the Liberal Party and the National Action (founded in 1963 by Jorge Prat Echaurren, who had been Minister of Finances in 1954 in Carlos Ibáñez del Campo's cabinet), thus creating the National Party.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cruz-Coke, Ricardo. 1984. Historia electoral de Chile. 1925-1973. Editorial Jurídica de Chile. Santiago

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