Trentino People's Party

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Trentino People's Party
Partito Popolare Trentino
AbbreviationPPT/TVP
Leader Alcide De Gasperi
Founded1904
Dissolved1919
Merged into Italian People's Party
Headquarters Trento, Austria
Ideology Christian democracy
Italian-speaking minority interests
Regionalism
Political position Centre
Colours  black

The Trentino People's Party (Italian : Partito Popolare Trentino), previously the People's Political Union of Trentino (Unione Politica Popolare del Trentino), was a political party in Austria-Hungary, founded in 1904 in support of Italian minorities in Trentino. [1] [2] Its leader was Alcide De Gasperi. [3]

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History

In the 1911 Cisleithanian legislative election the PPT was the second largest Italian party in the Vienna Parliament, after having been the largest in the 1907 election.

In 1920, after the annexation of Trentino into Italy, the PPT was merged into the Italian People's Party.

Electoral results

Imperial Council

Imperial Council
Election year# of
overall votes
% of
overall vote
# of
overall seats won
+/–Leader
1907 40,943 (#1 IT)0.9
7 / 516
1911 40,543 (#1 IT)0.9
7 / 516

Regional Council

Landtag of Tyrol
Election year# of
overall votes
% of
overall vote
# of
elective seats won
+/-Leader
1914 40,343 (#1 IT)35.9
7 / 25

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