It was founded in early 1922, and in the same year they won an electoral landslide in the parliamentary election.

[5] Initially, the party was conservative and agrarian but in the early 1930s its fascist faction grew to become the largest, and shortly after they established a militia.

[6] The main leader of the fascist faction was Gyula Gömbös, who served as the prime minister from 1932 to 1936.

Gömbös declared the party's intention to achieve "total control of the nation's social life".

[7] A faction of the most pro-Nazi members led by the party's former leader Béla Imrédy split from the party October 1940 to form the Party of Hungarian Renewal [Wikidata] (Magyar Megújulás Pártja) that sought to explicitly "solve" the "Jewish Problem."