The Social Christian Conservative Party (Spanish: Partido Conservador Social Cristiano) was a right-wing

Right-wing politics

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 political party in Chile

Chile

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, founded in 1949 as the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (Chile)

The Conservative Party of Chile was one of the principal Chilean political parties since its foundation in 1836 until 1949, when it broke apart. In 1953 it reformed as the United Conservative Party and in 1966 joined with the Liberal Party to form the National Party...

 split in two factions. For electoral purposes, one of the factions was named the Social Christian Conservative Party (the other being called the Traditionalist Conservative Party). Some of the Social Christian Conservatives later returned to form in together with the 'Traditionals' the United Conservative Party

United Conservative Party

The United Conservative Party was a right-wing Chilean party founded in December 1953 after the merger of the Traditionalist Conservative Party and parts of the Social Christian Conservative Party, issued from the Conservative Party. It supported for the 1958 presidential election the candidacy of...

 (1953), whereas others participated in the Social Christian Federation with the Falange Nacional from 1955 to 1957. In July 1957 the Social Christian Conservative Party fused with the Chilean Falange Nacional to form the social-christian

Christian left

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 Christian Democratic Party of Chile.

Election results

Year (no of all deputies)	Number of deputies	Votes received	Percentage
1949 (147)	31	98.221	21,1
1953 (147)	2	33.332	4,3
1957 (147)	2	33.654	3,8

Source: Cruz-Coke 1984