National Democratic Union (Italy)

The party scored 6.8%, placing itself at the fourth place in the election.{{cite book|author=John Foot|title=Modern Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=evwcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA235|year=2014|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-04192-0|page=235}}{{cite book|author=John Lamberton Harper|title=America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnyXtXWR0wwC&pg=PA186|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52282-3|page=186}} This grouping, during the sessions of the Constituent Assembly, represented the continuation of the Liberal elite, which governed Italy from the years of Giovanni Giolitti until the rise of Benito Mussolini and the instauration of the Fascist regime.

Important politicians elected on the UDN lists were Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Luigi Einaudi, Benedetto Croce, Enrico De Nicola, Gaetano Martino, Giuseppe Paratore, Ivanoe Bonomi, Raffaele De Caro, Meuccio Ruini, Enrico Molè, Bruno Villabruna, Epicarmo Corbino and Aldo Bozzi.

The alliance was succeeded in the 1948 general election by the National Bloc.{{cite book|author1=Ram Mudambi|author2=Pietro Navarra|author3=Giuseppe Sobbrio|chapter=A History of the Italian Political System – 1913 to the Present|title=Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG7A6LtPOf4C&pg=PA32|year= 2001|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|isbn=978-1-78195-082-1|pages=31–32}}

It was composed of the following political parties:

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