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Since 2025, the NUPH has launched several sub-groups, appealing to the youth, women, and some vocal minorities, increasing its party membership from the first time since 2008 from 812,000 to the current registered amount of 1,312,908 confirmed members of the NUPH.

== History ==

=== Party Origins [~1960s - 1993] ===

The National Unionist Party, started sometime vaguely in the Junta-era of Patrajan history, was an essentially-covert gathering of leftover Social Nationalists and Pretvists that dimmed down in both intensity and extremism over time. Upon the founding of the original NUP, it considered itself, and was considered, a neo-terrorist cell, and three or four shootings in the 1960s were attributed to alleged members, though none confessed to even the existence of the party. However, as time went on, and as military crackdowns and propaganda eventually led to a subsiding of tensions, the NUP found itself in a slow and careful shift to the mainstream. Its leadership, previously decentralized, had its first central meetings in the 1980s, as talks of the military backing away and allowing a new democratic constitution to be made emerged. This meeting, whether coincidentally around this time, or intentionally-called because of this waxing military involvement, led to the formation of "The Committee," an aptly-named congress that elected the first leader of the NUP, Karlo Valerij, sometime around the mid-80s.

On December 13, 1993, the National Unionist Party was dissolved in its entirety, and its assets, members, and other details transferred over into the new National Union Party of the Homeland several minutes later.

=== Early History [1993 - 2002] ===

The early history of the NUPH was marked by only marginal improvements in winnings. The rebranding helped, however, as in 1994 regional elections, the NUPH secured 14 seats across the south of the nation, and even managed to flip a member of Parliament towards the party. However, the largest boost to early momentum came when the republic was reformed and confederated in 1995. After the dissolution of the Federal Republic and the start of the Confederated Republic, the NUPH found a large increase in votes. In the 1998 elections, the NUPH secured several appointed subcomittee positions from political contacts in other parties, and also won 13 seats in the Assembly, and 5 in the Senatorium. This 1998 push essentially marked the NUPH as a small, but possibly tie-flipping, influence in the government. The reforms of Barasian, though slow, proved to be quite important.

However, after another win in the 2001 elections, wherein the NUPH got three more seats in the Assembly, Barasian suffered a massive stroke, reportedly caused by a mixture of stress and chronic health problems. In 2002, Martin Barasian passed away. In his place, political hopeful and then-Provincial Governor of Paulinios Leonid Analli was elected as Party Leader by the Committee, starting what many call the "Analli Era" of the party.

=== The Analli Era [2002 - 2022] ===

After his ascension to Party Leader in 2002, Leonid Analli immediately worked on further moderation of the party, eliminating the old moniker of the party congress from "The Committee" towards the "Union Committee of the Party." Along with that, Analli further de-facto exiled the last remnants of the older members, kicking out the most fervent of those believers. Many of those exiles, including and led by former Party Leader Markos Martelli, would proceed to found the Patrajan National League, an extremist political party nearly classified a terrorist organization in 2008.

In 2022, Marija Torenvoa was then elected as the Party Leader, beginning what many theorists call the "Torenvoa Era" of the party.

=== The Torenvoa Era [2022 - ] ===