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1981?1988 political party in South Korea
The
Korean National Party
(
Korean
:
韓國國民黨
,
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
|
| Constituency
|
Party list
|
Total
|
+/?
|
| 1981
|
Kim Jong-cheol
|
2,147,293
|
13.3
|
|
|
|
new
|
3rd
|
Opposition
|
| 1985
|
1,828,744
|
9.2
|
|
|
|
 5
|
4th
|
Opposition
|
| 1988
|
Lee Man-sup
|
65,032
|
0.2
|
|
|
|
20
|
7th
|
Extra-parliamentary
|
References
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- ^
a
b
Haruhiro Fukui (1985)
Political parties of Asia and the Pacific
, Greenwood Press, p672
- ^
大韓民國選擧史
p124
