Korean National Party

1981–1988 political party in South Korea

Korean National Party

한국국민당

Founded| 23 January 1981
Dissolved| 29 April 1988
Headquarters| Seoul, South Korea
Ideology| Conservatism (South Korean)
Political position| Right-wing
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The Korean National Party (Korean: 한국국민당, romanized: Hangukgukmindang, lit. 'Korea National Citizen's Party') was a political party in South Korea.

## History

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The party was established on 23 January 1981 following a meeting of fifteen former MPs from the Democratic Republican Party and Yushin Political Alliance on 18 December 1980.[1] Kim Chong-cheol was elected party president,[1] and was selected as the party's presidential candidate for the February 1981 presidential elections; he finished third out of the four candidates with 1.6% of the vote.

In the March 1981 parliamentary elections the party received 13.3% of the vote, winning 25 seats and emerging as the third-largest party in parliament. The 1985 parliamentary elections saw the party's vote share reduced to 9.2% as it won twenty seats. When Kim Jong-pil staged a political comeback in October 1987, he founded the New Democratic Republican Party, with sixteen members defecting, eight to the New Democratic Republican Party and another eight joined the Democratic Justice Party.

The party lost all its seats in the 1988 elections, in which it received only 0.2% of the vote. As it was by law that a party failing to win a seat and receiving less than 2% of the vote in parliamentary elections would be disbanded, the party was officially dissolved on 29 April 1988.[2]

## Election results

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Election  | Leader  | Votes  | %  | Seats  | Position  | Status

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Constituency  | Party list  | Total  | +/–
1981 | Kim Jong-cheol | 2,147,293  | 13.3  |

18 / 184

7 / 92

25 / 276

| new | 3rd  | Opposition
1985 | 1,828,744  | 9.2  |

15 / 184

5 / 92

20 / 276

|  5  | 4th  | Opposition
1988 | Lee Man-sup | 65,032  | 0.2  |

0 / 224

0 / 75

0 / 299

|  20  | 7th  | Extra-parliamentary

## References

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1. ^ a b Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p672
2. ^ 大韓民國選擧史 p124

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