Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania

The Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania (Romanian: Partidul Democrat Agrar din România, PDAR) was a political party in Romania.

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History

The PDAR was formed on 29 January 1990 as a competitor to the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party. In the transitional government led by Petre Roman, PDAR member Nicolae Ștefan was Minister of Agriculture. The party received 1.8% of the Chamber of Deputies vote in the 1990 general elections, winning nine seats.[1] It also received 1.6% of the vote in the Senate elections, but failed to win a seat.[2]

Despite increasing its Chamber vote share in the 1992 general elections to 3%, it failed to win a seat.[3] However, it won five seats in the Senate with 3.3% of the vote.[4] It contested the 1996 elections as part of the National Union of the Centre alliance, alongside the Ecological Movement of Romania and the Humanist Party. However, the alliance received only 0.9% of the vote, failing to win a seat.[5] In 1998 the PDAR merged with the New Romania Party to form the Romanian National Party.

Electoral history

Legislative elections
Election Chamber Senate Position Aftermath
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
1990 250,403 1.83
9 / 395
 221,790 1.59
0 / 119
 7th Supported the FSN government (until October 1991)
Part of the coalition government (from October 1991)
1992 322,990 2.99
0 / 341
 359,042 3.25
5 / 143
 7th Supported the PDSR–PUNR–PRM government
1996 Part of the National
Union of the Centre
0 / 341
 118,859 0.97
0 / 143
 16th Extraparliamentary

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1599 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. 1990 Parliamentary Elections: Senate Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine University of Essex
  3. 1992 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived 2003-01-07 at the Wayback Machine University of Essex
  4. Nohlen & Stöver, pp1607–1613
  5. 1996 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine University of Essex
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