sentences:  As the agrarian government grew more and more autocratic.A group of political parties (the United People's Progressive Party, the Democratic Party, the Radical Democratic Party, and People's Alliance) ran together in the April 1923 elections as the Constitutional Bloc but only won 17 seats.Fraud and the newly effective first-past-the-post voting system were the culprits; although the BANU was still relatively popular amongst the countrymen.