Editing Hungarian Workers' Party (section)

== History ==
The party was established as the '''Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party''' on 17 December 1989 as a successor party of the [[Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party]] (MSZMP) by a small group of old MSZMP members who opposed its transformation into the [[Hungarian Socialist Party]] (MSZP). Among them was [[Károly Grósz]], the last general secretary of the old MSZMP, who became the new party's acting chairman

In the [[1990 Hungarian parliamentary election|1990 elections]] it received around 3% of the national vote, the largest share for a party that failed to win a seat.{{sfnp|Nohlen|Stöver|2010|p=924}}{{sfnp|Nohlen|Stöver|2010|p=932}}

In 1993 the party adopted the name '''Workers' Party''', and in the same year a group of hard-liners broke away to form another [[Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1993)|Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party]]. In the [[1994 Hungarian parliamentary election|1994 elections]], the party won a similar share of the vote, again emerging as the largest party without a seat. Despite increasing its vote share to around 4% in the [[1998 Hungarian parliamentary election|1998 elections]], the party again remained seatless. In the [[2002 Hungarian parliamentary election|2002 elections]], the party's vote share fell to around 2%, and for the first time since 1990, not the largest party without parliamentary representation.{{sfnp|Nohlen|Stöver|2010|p=924}}{{sfnp|Nohlen|Stöver|2010|p=932}}

On 12 November 2005 it became the '''Hungarian Communist Workers' Party''' when a split led to the formation of the [[Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 – European Left|Workers' Party of Hungary 2006]] led by János Fratanolo. In the [[2006 Hungarian parliamentary election|2006 elections]] the party received less than 0.5% of the national vote, whilst in the [[2010 Hungarian parliamentary election|2010 elections]], its vote share fell to just 0.1%. On 11 May 2013 the party was renamed again, this time becoming the '''Hungarian Workers' Party''' due to a law passed the previous year banning the public use of names associated with "authoritarian regimes of the 20th century."<ref>{{cite news|title=Hungarian CWP, New name of the Hungarian CWP |url=http://solidnet.org/hungary-hungarian-communist-workers-party/hungarian-cwp-new-name-of-the-hungarian-cwp-en-ru-sp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002052606/http://solidnet.org/hungary-hungarian-communist-workers-party/hungarian-cwp-new-name-of-the-hungarian-cwp-en-ru-sp|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 October 2016|access-date=September 18, 2018|newspaper=Solidnet|date=14 May 2013}}</ref> In the [[2014 Hungarian parliamentary election|2014 parliamentary election]], the party received 0.56% of the votes, again the largest party without parliamentary seats.