The Economic Party (''Partito Economico'', PE) was an Italian political party founded in 1919 in
Turin
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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
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, 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
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