History
The UNR won 206 of 579 seats in the November 1958 elections.
In 1962, the UNR grouped with the Gaullist Democratic Union of Labour (French: Union démocratique du travail, UDT) to form the UNR-UDT. They won 233 seats out of 482, slightly less than an absolute majority. 35 Independent Republicans boosted their support.
In 1967, UNR candidates ran under the title Democratic Union of the Fifth Republic (Union démocratique pour la Ve République, UD-Ve), winning 200 out of 486 seats.
The UNR was renamed Union for the Defense of the Republic in 1968, and later Union of Democrats for the Republic in 1971.
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