Conservative Catholics (Italy)

The Conservative Catholics (Italian: Cattolici Conservatori) were a right-wing conservative political party in Italy, composed by strong conservatives and clericalists.

Conservative Catholics Cattolici Conservatori
Leader	Stefano Cavazzoni Carlo Santucci Stefano Jacini
Founded	1913
Dissolved	1919
Split from	Italian Catholic Electoral Union
Merged into	Italian People's Party
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Ideology	Conservatism Clericalism Reactionarism Integralism
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
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History

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

Electoral results

Chamber of Deputies
Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader
1913	89,630 (9th)	1.8	9 / 508	–	several