Republican Party of Albania

Template:Infobox political party The Republican Party of Albania (Template:Langx, PR or PRSH) is a political party in Albania. It currently holds 1 of the 140 seats in the Parliament of Albania,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> in alliance with the Democratic Party of Albania.

History

The party was founded on 10 January 1991 under the leadership of the writer Sabri Godo, who was also its first Chairman. The party was formed with the backing of the Italian Republican Party.<ref name="DayEast">Template:Cite book</ref> After the Democratic Party, it was the second party to be founded in Albania after the anti-communist revolution in the autumn of 1990.

In the 1992 elections the party received 2.9% of the national vote and won a single seat.<ref name=NS>Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp139–142 Template:ISBN</ref> They joined a coalition with the Democratic Party, but had little influence on the policies being shaped. The 1996 elections saw the party almost double its share of the vote to 5.9%, winning three seats.<ref name=NS/> After the 1997 uprising, in which the center-right coalition was overthrown by socialist supporters, the party became an opposition party. In the 1997 elections the party was reduced to a single seat.<ref name=NS/>

Before the 2001 elections, the party joined the Union for Victory Coalition under the leadership of the Democratic Party, which won 46 seats. In the 2005 elections the party received 20% of the vote in the national voting for the proportional seats, putting it in first place. Although it won 11 proportional seats, it failed to win a single constituency seat,<ref>Republic of Albania: Legislative Elections of 3 July 2005 Adam Carr</ref> resulting in the party only being the third largest in Parliament.<ref>Nohlen & Stöver, p143</ref> For the 2009 elections the party was part of the "Alliance for Changes" coalition. However, it was reduced to a single seat, after seeing its vote share fall to just 2.1% of the national total. In the 2011 local elections the party won a total of 67,039 votes throughout the country, twice the amount they had received in the 2009 Albanian parliamentary election.<ref name="2011 albanian elections results">"Aleanca per Qytetarin", fiton me 70.890 vota Koha Jonë</ref>

Election results

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Status
1991	27,393	1.47	Template:Composition bar	–	Template:No
1992	52,477	2.89	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase1	Template:Yes2
1996	94,567	5.74	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase2	Template:Yes2
1997	31,573	2.41	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease2	Template:No2
2001	Part of BF		Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 4	Template:No2
2005	272,746	19.96	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase6	Template:Yes2
2009	31,990	2.11	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease10	Template:Yes2
2013	52,168	3.02	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase2	Template:No2
2017	3,225	0.20	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 3	Template:No
2021	Part of PD–AN		Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase3	Template:No2
2025	Part of ASHM		Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease2	Template:No2