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Portuguese Republican Party

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Portuguese Republican Party
Partido Republicano Português
Founded25 March 1876 (1876-03-25)
Dissolved1912 (1912) (de facto)
1926 (1926) (de jure)
Succeeded byRepublican Party
Republican Evolutionist Party
Republican Union Party
HeadquartersLisbon
IdeologyRepublicanism
Anti-clericalism
Secularism
Classical radicalism
Political positionCentre to centre-left
SloganPátria e Liberdade
("Fatherland and Liberty")
Party flag

The Portuguese Republican Party (Portuguese: Partido Republicano Português, pronounced [pɐɾˈtiðu ʁɛpuβliˈkɐnu puɾtuˈɣeʃ]) was a Portuguese political party formed during the late years of the constitutional monarchy that proposed and later brought about the replacement of the monarchy with the Portuguese First Republic.[1]

When the Republic was established on the 5 October 1910 Revolution, the members of the party initially stood together, but soon began splitting into different parties, including the Democratic Party, Republican Union, and Evolutionist Party, some of which themselves later merged or split to form the Democratic Leftwing Republican Party, Reformist Party, Centrist Republican Party, Popular Party, Radical Party, Republican Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Union, Reconstitution Party and Nationalist Republican Party.

Notable members

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Electoral performance

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Election Votes % Seats[a] Result
Kingdom of Portugal
1878
1 / 137
Opposition
1879
1 / 137
Opposition
1881
1 / 137
Opposition
1884
2 / 151
Opposition
1887
2 / 152
Opposition
1889
2 / 152
Opposition
1890
4 / 152
Opposition
1892
4 / 152
Opposition
1894
2 / 152
Opposition
1895 Boycotted
0 / 114
Extraparliamentary opposition
1897 Boycotted
0 / 114
Extraparliamentary opposition
1899
3 / 138
Opposition
1900
0 / 138
Extraparliamentary opposition
1901
0 / 148
Extraparliamentary opposition
1904 Boycotted
0 / 148
Extraparliamentary opposition
1905
0 / 148
Extraparliamentary opposition
April 1906
1 / 148
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Opposition
August 1906
4 / 148
Opposition
1908
7 / 148
Opposition
1910
14 / 155
Election annulled following a coup d'état
Republic of Portugal
1911 (constituent assembly)
229 / 234
Supermajority

See also

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References

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  1. ^ From 1878 to 1908 the 6 seats representing overseas territories are excluded, and from 1884 to 1895 the 6 seats elected at the national level are excluded.
  2. ^ The Republican candidate elected in April 1906 refused to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies as a protest against electoral fraud