Korean National Party

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; RR: Hangukgukmindang; lit. Korea National Citizen's Party) was a political party in South Korea.

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. Kim Jong-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 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.

Election results

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats				Position	Status
				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