Economic Party (Italy) Explained

Economic Party
Native Name:Partito Economico
Leader:Ferdinando Bocca
Foundation:1919
Dissolution:1924
Headquarters:Turin, Italy
Ideology:Liberism
Social conservatism
Position:Right-wing
Country:Italy

The Economic Party (Partito Economico, PE) was an Italian political party founded in 1919 in Turin by a group of dealers and industrialists worried by the Red Biennium. The group viewed politics as subject to economic science, and was socially conservative.

The PE had its strongest constituencies in the larger cities of Northern Italy, as well as in Sicily, reaping benefits from its alliance with the Agrarian Party. In the 1919 general election, it received 1,5% of the vote and 7 seats. This support declined rapidly: in the 1921 election, the PE took 0,8% of the vote and 5 seats. It subsequently merged into the Agrarian Party.

Electoral results

Chamber of Deputies
width=13%Election yearwidth=16%Voteswidth=6%% width=1%Seatswidth=8%+/−width=19%Leader
191987.450 (8th)1.5
192153,382 (12th)0.8