The Citizens' Party () was a political party in Iceland.
History The party was formed as a loose collective of conservative candidates for the 1923 elections,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p965 including former members of the dissolved Home Rule Party, as well as the Independence Party.Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p519 It won the elections, taking 16 of the 28 seats in the Lower House and 7 of the 14 seats in the Upper House.Nohlen & Stöver, pp975–977 In February 1924 twenty of the party's MPs founded the Conservative Party, and the party was dissolved in the same year.McHale, p520 The three remaining MPs sat under the banner of the Independence Party, before forming the Liberal Party in 1927.
A second Citizens' Party was established in 1987.
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