The Hungarian Independence Party (, MFP) was a political party in

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

in the period after

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

History

The party was founded in 1947, shortly before the August parliamentary elections that year. Led by , it won 49 of the 411 seats, becoming the fifth largest party in Parliament. However, in October the National Elections Committee ruled that the party had participated in the election unlawfully, and its seats were annulled. A new party was established following the end of Communism. In the 1990 parliamentary elections it received less than 0.1% of the vote, and did not run again.Nohlen & Stöver, p909

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