Popular Republican Movement

The Movement Republican Popular (MRP, French: Mouvement Républicain Populaire) was a French political party of the Fourth Republic. Its leaders included Georges Bidault, Robert Buron, Paul Coste-Floret, Pierre Pflimlin, Robert Schuman, and Pierre-Henri Teitgen.

Founded in 1944 by Bidault, the party was initially an important political player and participated in most of the governments of the fourth republic. However, unlike its Christian Democratic counterparts in Germany and Italy, the vote for the MRP declined in the last elections; the party was deeply divided over the Algerian war, with Bidault supporting the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS). During the 1960s, the party supported de Gaulle. On September 13, 1967, the MRP ceased to exist.

However, from 1959 onwards, a large part of its militants were associating with the Gaullism parties or went on to form the Democratic Center (future Center of Social Democrats) that was integrated into the political coalition Union for French Democracy in 1978.

Election results

Presidential Elections

Year	Candidate	First round		Results
		Votes	%
1947a	Auguste Champetier de Ribes	242	27.41 %	No electorate
1953a	Georges Bidault	131	14.12 %	No electorate
1958	No candidate.
1965	Jean Lecanuet	3.777.120	15.57 %	No electorate

^a Indirect voting by French parliamentarians.

Parliamentary elections

Year	First round		Second round		Scalls	+/−	Position	Government
	Votes	%	Votes	%
1945	4.580.222	23.91 %	No second round.		150/586		2.o place	Government
June 1946	5.589.213	28.22 %	No second round.		166/586	16	1.o place	Government
November 1946	4.988.609	25.96 %	No second round.		173/627	7	2.o place	Government
1951	2.369.778	12.60 %	No second round.		95/625	78	5th place	Government
1956	2.366.321	10.88 %	No second round.		83/595	12	4.o place	Opposition
1958	1.858.380	9.10 %	1.370.246	7.40 %	57/546	26	3.o place	Opposition
1962	1.665.695	9.08 %	821.635	5.45 %	36/465	21	5th place	Government