Democratic Party (South Korea, 2000)

"Millennium Democratic Party" redirects here. For the party in East Timor, see Millennium Democratic Party (East Timor).

Democratic Party
Founded	20 January 2000
Dissolved	27 June 2007
Merger of	National Congress for New Politics and New People Party
Succeeded by	Uri Party and Democratic Party (2007)
Headquarters	25-4, Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Ideology	Liberalism Sunshine Policy
International affiliation	None
Colours	Green, yellow (informally)
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

Democratic Party
Hangul	민주당
Hanja	民主黨
Revised Romanization	Minjudang
McCune–Reischauer	Minjutang
Millennium Democratic Party
Hangul	새천년민주당
Hanja	새千年民主黨
Revised Romanization	Saecheonnyeon Minjudang
McCune–Reischauer	Saech'eonnyŏn Minjutang

The Democratic Party was a political party of South Korea, formerly called the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP; 새천년민주당; Saecheonnyeon Minjudang), it changed its name to the present form on May 6, 2005.

History

In 2000, the party officially founded, after it merged of National Congress for New Politics and New People Party led by Rhee In-je and a number of conservative minded politicians joined it. In the 2000 Parliamentary election the party came second winning 115 seats.

Roh Moo-hyun was elected as president in 2002, but he subsequently left the party after he inaugurated as president and his supporters formed the Uri Party in 2003.

The MDP lost popularity when Roh was impeached in March 2004 by the National Assembly for illegal electioneering and incompetence charges with support from the Grand National Party, losing 53 seats to a total of only 9 seats in the 2004 parliamentary election. Roh Moo-hyun was later re-instated by the Constitutional Court, and served as president until the end of his term.

By June 2007 Much of the party member joined the Uri Party while the New People faction form the Democratic Party (2007).

Presidential election primary

Candidates

This is a list of official pre-registered candidates that declared their 2007 presidential bid.

Name	Occupation	Results	Notes
Cho Sun-hyeong(조순형)	Member for Seongbuk-gu-eul		led the impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun in 2004
Kim Min-seok(김민석)	Former Assembly member		Former Seoul mayoral candidate in 2002 local body election(when Lee Myung Bak was elected that position)
Lee In-je(이인제)	Member for Nonsan, Geumsan and Gyeryung		Presidential candidate of election 1997
Shin Guk-hwan(신국환)	Member for Munkyeong and Yecheon		Former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy of Roh's Administration
Jang Sang(장 상)	Former leader of Democratic party		Former president of Ewha Womans University

• Kim Yeong-hwan(김영환), former Assembly member and also former Minister of Science and Technology of the Kim Dae-jung Administration has been declared not to run its presidential primary on August 31, 2007

Election results

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Party Name
2002	Roh Moo-hyun	12,014,277	48.9%	Elected Y	Millennium Democratic Party

Legislative elections

Election	Total seats won	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome of election	Election leader	Party Name
2000	115 / 299	6,780,625	35.9%	36 seats; in Coalition (MDP-ULD-DPP)	Kim Dae-jung	Millennium Democratic Party
2004	9 / 299	1,510,178	7.1%	53 seats; Minority	Choug Soon-hyung	Millennium Democratic Party

Local elections

Election	Metropolitan mayor/Governor	Provincial legislature	Municipal mayor	Municipal legislature	Party Name
2002	4 / 16	143 / 682	44 / 227		Millennium Democratic Party
2006	2 / 16	80 / 733	20 / 230	276 / 2,888	Democratic Party (2000)

See also

• List of political parties in South Korea
• Politics of South Korea
• Elections in South Korea
• Liberalism in South Korea
• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy

External links

• Democratic Party official site