Hungarian Workers' Party (defunct)

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The Hungarian Workers' Party (Hungarian : Magyarországi Munkáspárt, MMP) was a political party in Hungary during the early 1920s.

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History

The party first contested national elections in 1920 as the Hungarian National Workers' Party (Magyar Munkások Országos Pártja), winning a single seat in the parliamentary elections that year. [1] By the 1922 elections it had been renamed the Hungarian Workers' Party. It retained its single seat, but it did not contest any further elections.

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p9292 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7