The Citizens' Party ( is, Borgaraflokkurinn) was a political party in

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History

The party was formed as a loose collective of conservative candidates for the 1923 elections,

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p965 including former members of the dissolved Home Rule Party, as well as the

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. It won the elections, taking 16 of the 28 seats in the Lower House and 7 of the 14 seats in the Upper House.Nohlen & Stöver, pp975–977 In February 1924 twenty of the party's MPs founded the

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, and the party was dissolved in the same year.McHale, p520 The three remaining MPs sat under the banner of the

, before forming the

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in 1927. A second Citizens' Party was established in 1987.

References

{{Defunct political parties in Iceland Defunct political parties in Iceland Political parties disestablished in 1924 1924 disestablishments in Iceland