The National Party of 1848, or the Party of 1848 (Far-Left until 1870) was a Hungarian political party, whose members were mainly Lajos Kossuth's former supporters and those who opposed the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. Its members were mostly middle-class citizens and peasants. For a long time it was a faction of the
Resolution Party
The Resolution Party ( hu, Határozati Párt) was one of the two political groups of the National Assembly of 1861 in Hungary. The group was led by Count László Teleki
Count László Teleki IV de Szék (11 February 1811 – 8 May 1861) was ...
and then of the
Left Centre
The Left Centre ( hu, Balközép) was a political party in Hungary in the 1860s and 1870s led by Kálmán Tisza and Kálmán Ghyczy.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p505
History
The Left Centre finished se ...
under the name of Szélsőbal.
The party participated the
elections of 1861 and
1865
Events
January–March
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* January 13 – American Civil War : Sec ...
before becoming permanently independent in April 1868.
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Defunct political parties in Hungary
Political parties disestablished in 1874
Political parties in Austria-Hungary
Radical parties