The National Workers' Party ( pl, Narodowa Partia Robotnicza, NPR) was a political party in Poland.

History

The NPR was established in Warsaw on 23 May 1920 by a merger of the National Workers' Union and the National Party of Workers.Jerzy Jan Lerski (1996) ''Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945'', Greenwood Publishing Group, p380 Strongest in

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, Pomerania, Łódź and Silesia, it had around 150,000 members by the following year. It received around 5% of the vote in the 1922 elections, winning 18 seats in the Sejm and three in the Senate.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp1509–1512 The party was a member of the Józef Piłsudski governments until 1926, but then split into two factions; one retained the NPR name, whilst the other became known as NPR-Left. The NPR-Left supported Piłsudski's Sanation regime, whilst the NPR, which had been reduced to around 80,000 members, opposed it. The

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saw the NPR's vote share fall to 2%. As a result, it was reduced to 11 seats in the Sejm and two in the Senate. In 1930 the NPR joined the Centrolew alliance, which contested the

1930 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1930. Asia * 1930 Persian legislative election * 1930 Madras Presidency legislative council election * 1930 Japanese general election Europe * 1930 Finnish parliamentary election * 1930 Norwegian parl ...

. The alliance won 79 seats, of which the NPR took eight. It later became part of the Front Morges, and by 1934 only had around 20,000 members. The party boycotted the

1935 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1935. Asia * 1935 Philippine legislative election * 1935 Philippine presidential election Europe * 1935 Czechoslovakian parliamentary election * 1935 Czechoslovak presidential election * 1935 Danish Fo ...

, and in 1937 it merged with the Polish Christian Democratic Party to form the Labor Party.

Ideology

The party's platform in 1921 called for social solidarity and a strong parliamentary democracy, and supported autonomy for national minorities except Jews.

Election results

Sejm

References

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