The party was revived after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and restoration of the monarchy.
[1] From the 1896 elections onwards, it was the main opposition to the ruling Liberal Party.
Ferenc Kossuth and Albert Apponyi led a right-wing grouping that supported an alliance with Germany, whilst Gyula Justh and later Mihály Károlyi led a left-wing faction that opposed working with Germany.
In the 1935 elections it won a single seat, running on a joint list with the National Radical Party in one multi-member constituency.
* Limit for parties to join the National Assembly in Hungary is 5 % of popular votes