Conservative Catholics (Italy)

Conservative Catholics Cattolici Conservatori
Leader	Various
Founded	1861
Dissolved	1919
Merged into	Italian People's Party
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Ideology	Royalism Clericalism Reactionarism
Political position	Far-right (1861–1890s) Right-wing (1890s–1919)
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The Conservative Catholics (Italian: Cattolici Conservatori) was a right-wing conservative political group in Italy, active from 1861 as a kind of "Historical far-right" (composed by strong conservatives and clericalists), but became important only in the early years of 1900s.

It emerged in 1913 from the right-wing of the clerical Catholic Electoral Union. In the 1913 general election the party won 1.8% of the vote and 9 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.^[1] In 1919 the Catholics were merged with other clerical parties and groupings in the Italian People's Party, that gained 20.5% and 100 seats in the 1919 general election.^[2][3]

Electoral results

Chamber of Deputies
Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
1913	89,630 (#9)	1.8	9 / 508	–	several

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Francesco Leoni, Storia dei partiti politici italiani, Guida, Naples 2001
3. Piergiorgio Corbetta; Maria Serena Piretti, Atlante storico-elettorale d'Italia, Zanichelli, Bologna 2009