The Korean National Party ( ko, 한국국민당, Hangukgukmindang, Korea National Citizen's Party) was a political party in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

History

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.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p672 Kim Chong-cheol was elected party president, 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 Kim Jong-pil (; ; January 7, 1926 – June 23, 2018), also known colloquially as JP, was a South Korean politician and the founder/first director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA, now the National Intelligence Service). He s ...

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 Democratic Justice Party (; DJP) was the ruling party of South Korea from 1981 to 1988. History Chun had become the country's de facto leader after leading a military coup in December 1979, and was elected president in his own right in ...

. 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.大韓民國選擧史
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Election results

References

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