However, Communist opposition to Teleki led to him losing his place in the Cabinet, and he resigned as party leader in June 1945.

[3] Although the PDP was ostracised by left-wing parties in the buildup to the November 1945 elections, it still had around 60,000 members, whilst its Világ newspaper had a circulation of around 80,000.

In the elections the party won two seats, taken by Sándor Szent-Iványi and women's rights campaigner Margit Slachta.

Prior to the 1949 elections several parties were forcibly merged into the Communist-led Hungarian Independence People's Front,[4] whilst the PDP was banned.

[2] * Limit for parties to join the National Assembly in Hungary is 5 % of popular votes