Korea Nationalist Party

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The Korea Nationalist Party (Korean: 대한국민당, Daehan Gukmin Dang, 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.^[1] 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. However, 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, but received only 2.8% of the vote. The party lost parliamentary representation in the 1958 elections

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