The Korea Nationalist Party (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.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p672 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
House of Representatives Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– Position Status 1950 Yun Chi-young 677,173 9.69 new 2nd 1954 Sin Ik-hui 72,923 0.97 21 4th
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