Croatian Popular Party was founded in 1919, as political branch of the Croatian Catholic movement

Croatian Catholic movement

Croatian Catholic movement is the name for the gathering of organized Catholic lay initiatives and associations, who acts in the first half of the 20th century in Croatia, as a response on increasing liberalism, with a new, aggressive approach, and on the phenomena of Church and religion lost the...

, and participated in elections in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until the royal dictatorship 1929.

In the 1920 elections

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Constitutional Assembly election, 1920

The 1920 Constitutional Assembly election of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes for the National Assembly took place on 28 November 1920....

, the party ran together with the Bunjevac-Šokac Party

Bunjevac-Šokac Party

Bunjevac-Šokac Party was a political party of Croats the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) part of province of Bačka ....

. The HPS had nine representatives elected: from the former Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

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 were Velimir Deželić, Rev. Janko Šimrak and Stjepan Barić; from the former Kingdom of Dalmatia

Kingdom of Dalmatia

The Kingdom of Dalmatia was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1815 to 1918. Its capital was Zadar.-History:...

 were dr. Ante Dulibić, dr. Dominik Mazzi and Mate Milanović-Litre; from Herzegovina

Herzegovina

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 were fra. Didak Buntić

Didak Buntic

Fra Didak Buntić was a Croatian friar and educator from Herzegovina.Buntic was born on October 9, 1871. The next day he was baptized as Franjo Buntić. He entered the Franciscan order in 1888 and finished seminary in 1894....

, dr. Marko Rebac and dr. Nikola Mandić

Nikola Mandic

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.

After King Alexander

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

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 declared a dictatorship on January 6, 1929 the party was abandoned and officially ceased to exist by police decree on January 21.

The modern-day Croatian Popular Party

Croatian Popular Party

Croatian Popular Party is a right-wing political party in Croatia.The party was founded in 1997 by Tomislav Merčep after his departure from Croatian Democratic Union....

, founded in 1997, is named the same way.