Democratic Party (Hungary)

Democratic Party Demokrata Párt
President	Vilmos Bereczki
Founded	6 September 1993
Dissolved	December 1994
Split from	Democratic Smallholders' and Party (DKPP)
Ideology	Democratic liberalism
Political position	Centre-left
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The Democratic Party (Hungarian: Demokrata Párt; DEMP), was a short-lived political party in Hungary between 1993 and 1994.

History

The Democratic Party's legal predecessor was the short-lived Democratic Smallholders' and Party (DKPP) which was established by former moderate liberal members of Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP) on 19 January 1993. The DKPP criticized József Torgyán's leadership. The DKPP split when MP Vilmos Bereczki and his supporters founded the DEMP on 6 September 1993.

The DEMP had four individual candidates in the 1994 parliamentary election, who received 0.02 percent of the votes, failing to win a seat. Just before the December 1994 local elections, the DEMP was officially dissolved.

Election results

National Assembly

Election year	National Assembly				Government
	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
1994	1,150	0.02%	0 / 386		extra-parliamentary

Sources

• Vida, István (2011). "Demokrata Párt (DEMP)". Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) [Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010)] (in Hungarian). Gondolat Kiadó. p. 341. ISBN 978-963-693-276-3.