Editing Unity for Human Rights Party (section)

==History==
The party first contested [[1992 Albanian parliamentary election|national elections]] in 1992, when it received 2.7% of the national vote and won two seats.<ref name=NS>[[Dieter Nohlen|Nohlen, D]] & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp139–142 {{ISBN|9783832956097}}</ref> The [[1996 Albanian parliamentary election|1996 elections]] saw the party increase its share of the vote to 4%, winning three seats.<ref name=NS/> Although the party's vote share dropped to 3.2% in the [[1997 Albanian parliamentary election|early elections in 1997]], it gained an additional MP, winning four seats. However, another drop in the party's support in the [[2001 Albanian parliamentary election|2001 elections]] saw it reduced to three seats. Despite again increasing its vote share to 4.1% in the [[2005 Albanian parliamentary election|2005 elections]], the party lost another MP as it was reduced to two seats. The [[2009 Albanian parliamentary election|2009 elections]] saw the party reduced to one seat.<ref>Nohlen & Stöver, p2047</ref>

In the [[2011 Albanian local elections|2011 local elections]] the party lost its councillors in [[Gjirokastër]] and [[Delvinë]] and one of its two municipal seats in [[Sarandë]],<ref name="2011e">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cec.org.al/images/stories/zgjedhje-vendore/2011/html_lshumemerore/110919_-_DTI_-_lista_keshill_2011.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705092257/http://www.cec.org.al/images/stories/zgjedhje-vendore/2011/html_lshumemerore/110919_-_DTI_-_lista_keshill_2011.htm|url-status=dead|title=Municipal seats 2011|archive-date=July 5, 2015}}</ref><ref name="2007e">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cec.org.al/images/stories/zgjedhje-vendore/2007/rezultate_2007/rezultate%20perfundimtare_pdf/keshill.pdf|title=Municipal seats 2007}}</ref> maintained its seat [[Shkodër]] and gained one of the seats in [[Korçë]] in addition to the mayoralty in nine communes.<ref name="2011e"/><ref name="2007e"/> In the [[2013 Albanian parliamentary election|2013 parliamentary elections]] it retained its single seat, running as part of the Alliance for a European Albania headed by the [[Socialist Party of Albania|Socialist Party]].

In the [[2015 Albanian local elections|2015 local elections]] the party failed to win any mayoralties, losing seats to other Greek parties such as [[MEGA/EEM]], as well as the Socialist Party.<ref>[http://www.cityfm.al/2015/06/shpallen-fituesit-ne-jug-pbdnj-humb-kudo/]{{dead link|date=July 2019}}</ref>

In the parliamentary elections of 2017 it joined forces with the Democratic Party and fielded two candidates: the party leader Vangjel Dule in Vlorë and one in Korçë County,<ref>[https://rm.coe.int/4th-op-albania-en-/168093903b Fourth Opinion on Albania - adopted on 11 October 2018]. Council of Europe, p. 33</ref> with the former being elected.<ref>[https://www.cnn.gr/news/kosmos/story/86647/ekloges-alvania-aytodynamia-rama-deixnoyn-ta-prota-apotelesmata Εκλογές Αλβανία: Αυτοδυναμία Ράμα δείχνουν τα πρώτα αποτελέσματα.]</ref> It continued its alliance with the Democratic Party in the [[2021 Albanian parliamentary election|2021 parliamentary elections]], in which it won a single seat on the Democratic Party's list.