The Party of Hungarian Life, formerly called the Christian Farmers, Smallholders and Civic Party and the National Unity Party, was the fascist political party that ruled Hungary from 1922 to 1944.
The party was founded in 1922 and won that year's parliamentary election in a landslide. Initially a conservative and agrarian party, the party's fascist faction grew to become the largest during the early 1930s, and this faction established a militia. Fascist leader Gyula Gombos served as prime minister from 1932 to 1936 and renamed the party to the "National Unity Party," declaring the party's intention to achieve total control of the nation's social life. In 1939, the party won a huge majority in parliament, including 49% of the popular vote and 72% of the parliament's seats. The party promoted nationalist propaganda, and some of its members sympathized with the national socialist Arrow Cross Party. In 1939, the party was renamed to the "Party of Hungarian Life." During World War II, a faction of pro-Nazi members split to form the Party of Hungarian Renewal in October 1940. In 1944, the Arrow Cross Party seized control of Hungary with German support, and the Party of Hungarian Life dissolved.