The United Conservative Party ( es, Partido Conservador Unido, PCU) was a right-wing

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founded in December 1953 after the merger of the Traditionalist Conservative Party and a faction of the

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, issued from the

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. It supported for the 1958 presidential election the candidacy of

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and participated, along with the

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and supporters of former president

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, in its government. In 1962, it participated in the

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center-right coalition which opposed the left-wings FRAP coalition and supported for the 1964 presidential election

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(who obtained less than 56% of the votes). Following the low results obtained at the 1965 parliamentary elections, the United Conservative Party merged in 1966 with the

and the National Action (founded in 1963 by Jorge Prat Echaurren, who had been Minister of Finances in 1954 in

's cabinet), thus creating the National Party.

Electoral results

* 1957 parliamentary election (21 deputies on a total of 147) — 13,8% of the votes Cruz-Coke, Ricardo. 1984. ''Historia electoral de Chile. 1925-1973''. Editorial Jurídica de Chile. Santiago * 1961 parliamentary election (17 deputies on a total of 147) — 14,3% of the votes * 1965 parliamentary election (03 deputies on a total of 147) — 05,2% of the votes

Presidential candidates

The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the United Conservative Party. (Information gathered from th
Archive of Chilean Elections
. *

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

(won) *

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

(won)

Footnotes

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Electoral results

Presidential candidates

See also

Footnotes

Further reading