Korea Nationalist Party

Korea Nationalist Party

대한국민당
大韓國民黨
Korea Nationalist Party 대한국민당; 大韓國民黨
Founded	November 11, 1948; November 11, 1949;
Dissolved	March 1949; February 1958;
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Ideology	Tridemism (de jure);
Colors	Blue; Green;
	Politics of South Korea; Political parties; Elections;

The Korea Nationalist Party (Korean: 대한국민당; Hanja: 大韓國民黨; RR: Daehangukmindang; KNP) was a political party in South Korea.

History

The party was established towards the end of 1949 by a group of 71 MPs led by Yun Chi-young.^[2] In the 1950 parliamentary elections it received 9.7% of the vote and won 24 seats, emerging as the joint-largest party with the Democratic Nationalist Party. In the next elections in 1954 it was reduced to only three seats.

Yun was the KNP candidate for the vice-presidency in the 1956 elections, receiving only 2.8% of the vote. The party lost parliamentary representation in the 1958 elections

Election results

Vice President

Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Result
1956	Yun Chi-young	241,278	2.79	Not elected

House of Representatives

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Status
1950	Yun Chi-young	677,173	9.69	24 / 210	new	2nd	Opposition
1954	Sin Ik-hui	72,923	0.97	3 / 203	21	4th	Opposition

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c first iteration
^ ^a ^b ^c second iteration

References

^ 極東問題 - 263-266호. 極東問題研究所. 2001. p. 119. 이에 대한 국민당 의 회답 은 삼민주의 (三民主義) 에 의한 통일 이었다 . 1981 년 3 월 국민당 은 정식 으로 삼민주의 에 의한 평화 통일 을 제안 하고 민주 , 자유 , 평 등 , 박애 의 기초 위에 통일 을 실 현할 것을 호소 했다 .
^ Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p672