National Political Union (UK)
National Political Union can refer to * National Political Union (England), an organisation founded in 1831 to agitate for extension of the franchise * National Political Union (1946), a Greek coalition of political parties from 1946 to 1950 * National Political Union (1984) The National Political Union ( el, Εθνική Πολιτική Ένωσις (EΠΕΝ), ''Ethniki Politiki Enosis'' (EPEN)) was a far-right political party in Greece. The party was founded on January 30, 1984 by jailed former junta leader Georg ...

National Political Union (England)
The National Political Union was an organisation set up in October 1831, after the rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Lords, to serve as a pressure group for parliamentary reform: “to support the King and his ministers against a small faction in accomplishing their great measure of Parliamentary Reform”. Modelled by Francis Place on the influential Birmingham Political Union, (but without its emphasis on currency reform) the N. P. U. was meant to serve both as a co-ordinating body for the country's political unions, and as a particular outlet for London radicals. Controversies, effects, and demise The N. P. U. was involved in controversy from its very outset, when the constituting meeting was invaded by a working-class protest against its middle-class membership: agreement on a moderate policy, but with half the Council seats reserved for manual workers, meant that the body would continue thereafter as a moderate centre of focus for both the middle and working classe ...
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National Political Union (1946)
The National Political Union ( (ΕΠΕ), ''Ethniki Politiki Enosis'' (EPE)) was a political alliance in Greece in the 1940s. History The coalition was founded in 1946 as an alliance of the National Unionist Party, the Democratic Socialist Party of Greece and the Liberal Party of Venizelists.Sona Nadenichek Golder (2006) ''The Logic of Pre-electoral Coalition Formation'' Ohio State University Press, p156 In the general elections that year the alliance received 19% of the vote, winning 68 seats. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 859 The alliance did not contest any further elections.Nohlen & Stöver, p. 835 See also * National Political Union (1984) The National Political Union ( el, Εθνική Πολιτική Ένωσις (EΠΕΝ), ''Ethniki Politiki Enosis'' (EPEN)) was a far-right political party in Greece. The party was founded on January 30, 1984 by jailed former junta leader Georg ... References {{Authority control Polit ...
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