Social Christian Conservative Party

Social Christian Conservative Party Partido Conservador Social Cristiano
Leader	Eduardo Cruz-Coke
Founded	1948
Dissolved	28 July 1957
Split from	Conservative Party
Merged into	Christian Democratic Party
Headquarters	Santiago de Chile
Ideology	Christian democracy Christian humanism Social conservatism
Political position	Centre
Politics of Chile Political parties Elections

The Social Christian Conservative Party (Spanish: Partido Conservador Social Cristiano, PCSC) was a centrist political party in Chile, founded in 1949 as the Conservative 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 (1953), whereas others participated in the Social Christian Federation with the National Falange from 1955 to 1957. In July 1957 the Social Christian Conservative Party merged with the Chilean National Falange to form the Christian Democratic Party of Chile.

Presidential candidates

The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the Social Christian Conservative Party. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections).

• 1952: Pedro Alfonso (lost)

Election results

Year (number 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

Bibliography

• Cruz-Coke, Ricardo. 1984. Historia electoral de Chile. 1925-1973. Editorial Jurídica de Chile. Santiago
• Pereira, Teresa. 1994. El Partido Conservador: 1930-1965, ideas, figuras y actitudes. Editorial Universitaria. Santiago de Chile.
• Sanfuentes Carrión, Marcial. 1957. El Partido Conservador. Editorial Universitaria. Santiago