The Democratic Korea Party (Korean: 민주한국당; Hanja: 民主韓國黨; RR: Minjuhangukdang, DKP) was a political party in South Korea.
Democratic Korea Party 민주한국당 | |
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| Founded | 17 January 1981 |
| Dissolved | 29 April 1988 |
| Headquarters | Seoul, South Korea |
| Ideology | Liberalism (South Korean) |
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History
editThe DKP was established on 17 January 1981 following a meeting of fourteen former members of the New Democratic Party on 22 November 1980.[1] Yu Chi-song was elected party president, and its candidate for the February 1981 presidential elections, in which he finished second to the incumbent president Chun Doo-hwan.
In the March 1981 parliamentary elections the DKP received 21.6% of the vote, winning 81 seats and emerging as the second-largest party to Chun's Democratic Justice Party. The party was widely perceived as being under the control of the Chun Doo-hwan's government to preserve the pretense of democratic competition between parties. The party was not recognised by Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam as they both were barred from running elections.
In the 1985 elections the party was reduced to 35 seats. The party received just 0.2% of the vote in the 1988 elections, failing to win a seat. It was subsequently deregistered on 29 April 1988.[2]
Election results
editLegislature
edit| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | Position | Status | |||
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| Constituency | Party list | Total | +/– | ||||||
| 1981 | Yu Chi-song | 3,495,829 | 21.57 | 57 / 184 | 24 / 92 | 81 / 276 | new | 2nd | Opposition |
| 1985 | 3,930,966 | 19.68 | 26 / 184 | 9 / 92 | 35 / 276 |  46 | 3rd | Opposition | |
| 1988 | 32,799 | 0.17 | 0 / 224 | 0 / 75 | 0 / 299 | 35 | 9th | Extra-parliamentary | |