Union for the New Republic

{{About|the political party in France|other uses|New Republic (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox political party

| colorcode = {{party color|Union for the New Republic}}

| name = Union for the New Republic

| native_name = Union pour la nouvelle république

| logo = Croix de Lorraine.svg

| logo_size = 80px

| caption = {{center|The Cross of Lorraine was the official symbol of the UNR.}}

| leader1_title = President

| leader1_name = Charles de Gaulle

| leader2_title = General Secretary

| leader2_name = Robert Poujade {{small|(last)}}

| founder = Charles de Gaulle

| foundation = {{start date|1958|10|1|df=y}}

| dissolution = {{end date|1967|11|26|df=y}}

| predecessor = National Centre of Social Republicans

| successor = Union for the Defense of the Republic

| headquarters = Paris

| wing1_title = Trade union

| wing1 = Union démocratique du travail

| newspaper = La Lettre de la nation Magazine

| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|

|Gaullism{{refn|{{Citation |first=Yves |last=Mény |title=France: The Institutionalisation of Leadership |work=Comparative European Politics |edition=Third |publisher=Routledge |year=2008 |page=105}}{{cite news |title=FRANCE: The Page of Progress |url=https://time.com/archive/6613048/france-the-page-of-progress/ |access-date=20 June 2024 |work=TIME |date=15 December 1958 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Cerny |first1=P. G. |title=The Fall of Two Presidents and Extraparliamentary Opposition: France and the United States in 1968 |journal=Government and Opposition |date=1970 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=287-306 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}}}

|Dirigisme{{cite news |last1=Bell |first1=David |title=New Republic: Midnight In Paris |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/05/04/152017727/new-republic-midnight-in-paris |access-date=20 June 2024 |work=NPR |date=4 May 2012}}

|Social conservatism

|Conservatism{{Citation |first=J. A. |last=Laponce |title=The Government of the Fifth Republic |publisher=University of California Press |year=1961 |page=23}}}}

| position = Centre-Right to Right-wing{{refn|{{Citation |first=Jean |last=Blondel |title=Contemporary France: Politics, Society and Institutions |publisher=Methuen & Co |year=1974 |pages=24–25}}{{cite journal |last1=Emmenegger |first1=Patrick |title=A 'Red Wave' over Europe |journal=The Power to Dismiss |date=15 October 2014 |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198709237.003.0004}}}}

| european =

| europarl = Liberal and Allies Group (1958–1965)[http://www.europe-politique.eu/rassemblement-des-democrates-europeens.htm UFE on Europe Politique]
European Democratic Union (1965–1967)

| colours = {{Color box|{{party color|Union for the New Republic}}|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|#EF4135|border=darkgray}} Blue and red

| flag = 200px

| country = France

}}

The Union for the New Republic ({{langx|fr|L'Union pour la nouvelle République}}, {{IPA|fr|lynjɔ̃ puʁ la nuvɛl ʁepyblik|pron}}, UNR) was a Gaullist political party in France, formed in support of Charles de Gaulle in the 1958 elections.

History

The UNR won 189 of 466 seats in the November 1958 elections.{{Cite journal |last=Rohn |first=Peter H. |last2=Macridis |first2=Roy C. |last3=Brown |first3=Bernard E. |date=1961 |title=The De Gaulle Republic, Quest for Unity |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/443963 |journal=The Western Political Quarterly |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=253 |doi=10.2307/443963 |issn=0043-4078|hdl=2027/mdp.39015012077858 |hdl-access=free }}

In 1962, the UNR grouped with the Gaullist Democratic Union of Labour (French: Union démocratique du travail, UDT) to form the UNR-UDT. They won 233 seats out of 482, slightly less than an absolute majority. 35 Independent Republicans boosted their support.

In 1967, UNR candidates ran under the title Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic (Union des démocrates pour la V^e République, UD-V^e), winning 200 out of 486 seats.

The UNR was renamed Union for the Defense of the Republic in 1967, and later Union of Democrats for the Republic in 1971.

Secretaries General of the UNR

Roger Frey, 1958–1959
Albin Chalandon, 1959
Jacques Richard, 1959–1961
Roger Dusseaulx, 1961–1962
Louis Terrenoire, 1962
Jacques Baumel, 1962–1967
Robert Poujade, 1967–1969

UNR in the Senate

Under the Fifth Republic, 39 senators were affiliated to the UNR Group and 11 of them were Muslims or with Muslim origins.[http://www.senat.fr/anciens-senateurs-5eme-republique/unr.html Groupe de l'Union pour la Nouvelle République]

First Senate election – 37 seats; 12.0%
Second Senate election – 32 seats; 11.7%
Third Senate election – 30 seats; 10.9%

Maurice Bayrou was the leader of the group in the Senate from October 1962 to October 1965.

Election results

=Presidential =

class="wikitable" style=text-align:center \|+President of the French Republic !rowspan=2\|Election !rowspan=2\|Candidate !colspan=2\|First round !colspan=2\|Second round !rowspan=2\|Result
Votes !% !Votes !%
1958 \| rowspan="2" \|Charles de Gaulle \| 62,394 \| 78.51% \|- \|- \|{{yes2\|Won}}
1965 \| 10,828,521 \| 44.65% \| 13,083,699 \| 55.20% \|{{yes2\|Won}}

class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+President of the French Republic

!rowspan=2|Election

!rowspan=2|Candidate

!colspan=2|First round

!colspan=2|Second round

!rowspan=2|Result

Votes

!Votes

1958

| rowspan="2" |Charles de Gaulle

| 62,394

| 78.51%

|{{yes2|Won}}

1965

| 10,828,521

| 44.65%

| 13,083,699

| 55.20%

|{{yes2|Won}}

= National Assembly =

class="wikitable" \|+ National Assembly ! rowspan="2" \|Election year ! rowspan="2" \|Leader ! colspan="2" \|First round ! colspan="2" \|Second round ! rowspan="2" \|Seats ! rowspan="2" \|+/− ! rowspan="2" \|Rank (seats)
Votes !% !Votes !%
1958 \|Charles de Gaulle \|3,603,958 \|17.6 \|4,769,052 \|26.4 \|{{composition bar\|189\|576\|{{party color\|Union for the New Republic}}}} \|– \|1st
1962 \|Georges Pompidou \|5,855,744 \|31.9 \|6,169,890 \|40.5 \|{{composition bar\|233\|491\|{{party color\|Union for the New Republic}}}} \|{{Increase}}44 \|1st

class="wikitable"

|+ National Assembly

! rowspan="2" |Election year

! rowspan="2" |Leader

! colspan="2" |First round

! colspan="2" |Second round

! rowspan="2" |Seats

! rowspan="2" |+/−

! rowspan="2" |Rank

(seats)

Votes

!Votes