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Political career Prime Minister (1948–1954) Leader of the Opposition (1935–1948) Minister of the Interior, Education and Public Health (1924–1933) Member of theHouse of Assembly (1919–1954) Early career Dutch Reformed Church minister Die Burger Purified National Party Reunited National Party Premiership Cabinets I II Apartheid Elections 1919 by 1920 1921 1924 1929 1933 1938 1943 1948 1953
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TheHerenigde Nasionale Party (English:Reunited National Party) was apolitical party inSouth Africa during the 1940s. It was the product of the reunion ofDaniel François Malan'sGesuiwerde Nasionale Party (English:Purified National Party) andJ.B.M. Hertzog's breakaway Afrikaner nationalist faction of theUnited Party in 1940.

In 1934, Hertzog had fused hisNational Party withJan Smuts'sSouth African Party to form theUnited Party due to pressure from the electorate during theGreat Depression. Hertzog split away in 1939, however, because of his strong anti-British stance and his view of Nazi Germany as a legitimate state, leading him to oppose South Africa's entry intoWorld War II on Britain's side.^[1]

Hertzog briefly led the new party but resigned after Malan and his faction rejected Hertzog's proposed platform of equality between British South Africans and Afrikaners. As a result, Malan became party leader and resumed his position asLeader of the Opposition. The Herenigde Nasionale Party gained popularity after the war and unexpectedly won theelections of 1948 with a majority of seats but a significant minority of the popular vote. Internationally it is known for the implementation ofapartheid. After 1948, the HNP merged with theAfrikaner Party, another Afrikaner nationalist party led by one of Hertzog's protégés, and reverted to the short name, theNasionale Party (National Party), which it retained until shortly after the fall of apartheid during the 1990s.

The initials of the Herenigde Nasionale Party, HNP, were later used by a breakaway party that was established in 1969, the rightwingHerstigte Nasionale Party (Re-established National Party).

Election	Party leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Result
1943	D. F. Malan	321,601	36.70%	43 / 150	16	2nd	Opposition
1948		401,834	37.70%	70 / 150	27	1st	Government

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