The National Conservative Party (PNC), also called the Conservative Party, was a conservative political party in Cuba that existed from 1902 to 1952.
The National Conservative Party emerged as a splintergroup of the Moderate Party during the August War of 1906, and Mario Garcia Menocal served as its political leader. In 1912, Menocal was elected President, but his fraudulent re-election in 1916 led to the outbreak of a brief civil war in 1917, instigated by the rival Liberal Party of Cuba. The PNC lost to the Cuban Popular Party in 1920, and, while the Liberal Gerardo Machado prevailed in the 1924 elections, his military dictatorship was supported by both liberals and conservatives. In 1931, Menocal was exiled after a failed coup attempt against Machado. The Conservatives failed to regain power over the ensuing decades. Menocal died in 1941, and the party slowly declined. After the 1952 coup, most of the Cuban political parties were dismantled and the PNC practically disappeared.