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{{Infobox political party
| colorcode = {{party color|United Christian Party (Hungary)}}
| name = United Christian Party
| native_name = Egyesült Kereszténypárt
| foundation = 1937
| dissolution =
| merger = [[Christian Economic and Social Party|KGSZP]], [[Christian Opposition|KE]], [[National Legitimist Party|NLN]]
| successor = [[Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)|KDNP]]
| ideology =
| position =
| religion = [[Catholicism]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://barankovics.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Hungarian-Chapters-The-Voyage-of-Hungarian-Christian-Democracy-to-the-Heart-of-Europe.pdf|page=26|section=II. The first prunes of modern Hungarian Christian democracy|author=Barankovics István Alapítvány|isbn=978-963-89921-8-5|title=The Voyage of Hungarian Christian Democracy to the Heart of Europe}}</ref>
| country = Hungary
}}{{Politics of Hungary}}
The '''United Christian Party''' ({{langx|hu|Egyesült Kereszténypárt}}, EKP) was a political party in [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]] that operated from the late 1930s until dissolving in 1944.
==History==
The party was formed in 1937 by a merger of the [[Christian Economic and Social Party]] (KGSZP), the [[Christian Opposition]] and the [[National Legitimist Party]] (NLN), although members of the Christian Opposition broke away later in the same year to re-establish their party.<ref name=NS>[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p911 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref> Some other members left to establish the far-right [[Christian National Socialist Front]] (KNSZF).<ref name=NS/>
The [[1939 Hungarian parliamentary election|1939 elections]] saw the new party win only four seats, eleven fewer than the KGSZP and NLN had won in [[1935 Hungarian parliamentary election|1935]]. It finished behind the Christian National Socialist Front in terms of vote share, although the KNSZF won only three seats. Neither party contested another election.<ref>Nohlen & Stöver, p908</ref>
After [[World War II]], the EKP was succeeded by the [[Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)|Christian Democratic People's Party]].<ref name="VM">Vincent E. McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p511 {{ISBN|0-313-23804-9}}</ref>
==Further reading==
*{{Cite book |author=Fazekas Csaba | editor = Wolfram Kaiser & Helmut Wohnout |chapter=Collaborating with Horthy: Political Catholicism and Christian Political Organizations in Hungary |title=Political Catholicism in Europe 1918–1945 |volume=1 |publisher=Routledge |year=2004 |pages=160–177}}
==References==
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[[Category:1937 establishments in Hungary]]