Evolutionist Party
{{Short description|Former Portuguese political party}}
{{Infobox political party
| name = Republican Evolutionist Party
| native_name = Partido Republicano Evolucionista
| native_name_lang = pt
| colorcode = {{party color|Evolutionist Party}}
| abbreviation = PRE
| leader = António José de Almeida
| founded = 24 February 1912
| dissolved = 1919
| split = Portuguese Republican Party
| merged = Republican Liberal Party
| ideology = Classical LiberalismErnesto Castro Leal (2008), Partidos e Programas
O campo partidário republicano português 1910-1926, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Conservative Liberalism{{cite thesis |last=VIEIRA |first= Duarte Pedro Cação |date= 2019|title= A Burguesia às Urnas? - O Voto na 1ª República (As Eleições de 1922) |url= https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/19044/1/master_duarte_cacao_vieira.pdf |work= |degree= Masters |location= Lisbon |publisher= ISCTE IUL |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= 3 March 2025}}
| country = Portugal
| position = Center-right
}}
{{Politics of Portugal}}
The Republican Evolutionist Party ({{langx|pt|Partido Republicano Evolucionista}}, PRE), commonly known as the Evolutionist Party, was a political party in Portugal led by António José de Almeida.
History
The party was established on 24 February 1912 as the result of a split in the Portuguese Republican Party that led to the creation of the PRE, the Democratic Party and the Republican Union.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1548 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}} It won 26 seats in the House of Representatives and nine seats in the Senate in the 1915 parliamentary elections, emerging as the second-largest faction after the Democratic Party.
The party boycotted the 1918 elections,Nohlen & Stöver, p1557 but returned to run in the 1919 elections, in which it won 38 House seats, regaining its place as the second-largest party.
After Almeida became president in 1919, the party merged with the Republican Union to form the Republican Liberal Party during the same year.
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