The Trentino People's Party (), previously the People's Political Union of Trentino (''Unione Politica Popolare del Trentino''), was a political party in

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...

, founded in 1904 in support of

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

minorities in

Trentino Trentino (), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento (; ; ), is an Autonomous province#Italy, autonomous province of Italy in the Northern Italy, country's far north. Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the Regions of Italy, region of Tren ...

. Its leader was

Alcide De Gasperi Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi (; 3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 t ...

History

In the

1911 Cisleithanian legislative election Legislative elections to elect members of the Imperial Council were held in Cisleithania, the Austrian section of Austria-Hungary over several days in June and July 1911. A coalition of German national and liberal parties, the ''Deutscher Nati ...

the PPT was the second largest Italian party in the Vienna Parliament, after having been the largest in the 1907 election. In 1920, after the annexation of Trentino into Italy, the PPT was merged into the Italian People's Party.

Electoral results

Imperial Council

Regional Council

References

{{Reflist Defunct political parties in Austria Political parties in Trentino Christian democratic parties in Italy Catholic political parties Alcide De Gasperi Political parties in Austria-Hungary