The Constitutional Democratic Party ( it, Partito Democratico Costituzionale, PDC) was a

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political party in Italy. The party emerged in 1913 from the left-wing of the dominant Liberals, of which it continued to be a government coalition partner. In the 1913 general election the party, which was rooted in Southern Italy while in the

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it often presented joint candidates with the Liberals, won 4.8% of the vote and 40 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. In 1919 the PDC was merged with other liberal parties and groupings in the

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, that gained 10.9% and 60 seats in the 1919 general election, while other Democrats joined

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– Radical joint lists.Piergiorgio Corbetta; Maria Serena Piretti, ''Atlante storico-elettorale d'Italia'', Zanichelli,

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2009

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