The National Labour Party was founded and officially registered by the
Supreme Court of Mongolia on 5 November 2011. On 29 December 2015,
Sainkhüügiin Ganbaatar, an
independent member of the
State Great Khural, joined the NLP, and with him, the party got its first seat in parliament. He was nominated with 98% of the 300 votes as the next party chairman. However, a scandal about the authenticity of Ganbaatar's diploma and biography led to a leadership feud between him and party board member Badrakhyn Naidalaa. Prior to the
2016 parliamentary election, Naidalaa and then-party secretary
Togmidyn Dorjkhand reformed the party, and nominated Naidalaa as the party chairman. Both nominations were rejected by the Supreme Court, leaving then-registered chairman Surenkhüügiin Borgil as the legitimate party leader. The party was unable to run in the 2016 parliamentary elections, allegedly due to the
General Election Commission of Mongolia receiving two different materials, one being false documents and the other being incomplete. The party nominated its candidates, including party chairman Borgil, as independents. No NLP members were elected into the State Great Khural. In the aftermath of the
2018 anti-government protests, which exposed a
cabal between senior government officials from the ruling
Mongolian People's Party (MPP) and the opposition
Democratic Party (DP), the NLP started gaining traction among the public as a possible
third-party opposition. The 2021 merger of ex-President
Nambaryn Enkhbayar's
MPRP, which previously had been the third largest party, with the MPP, the split of the
Democratic Party (DP), the main opposition to the MPP, into pro- and anti-
Battulga factions. In the
2020 parliamentary election and the
2021 presidential election, the party performed well among young people in urban areas. The NLP was regarded as a progressive outfit of young and well-educated Mongolian professionals, and was also popular among
Mongolian expats who heavily supported the party from abroad. In the
2020 parliamentary election, it formed an electoral coalition called the
Right Person Electorate Coalition with the
Mongolian Social Democratic Party and the Justice Party. The coalition secured one out of 76 seats in the
State Great Khural. The party's then-only
MP Togmidyn Dorjkhand succeeded Badrakhyn Naidalaa as the next party chairman during an online party congress in January 2021. In the
2021 presidential election, the coalition came in second place with over 20% of the total ballots, outnumbering the DP as the main rival to the MPP for the first time in
Mongolia's politics.
Dangaasurengiin Enkhbat, the party's presidential nominee, won over 75% of the expat vote. In May 2022, the National Labour Party changed its party name to the HUN Party and declared its political position as
centre-right. The party remained a coalition partner to the MPP after the
2025 anti-government protests, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister
Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene and the collapse of the coalition government. Following the collapse of the Oyun-Erdene cabinet, MP
Jargalsaikhany Zoljargal renounced his party membership due to disagreements with the party's role in government in the summer of 2025. He formally withdrew and became a
non-partisan on 3 December 2025, reducing the total HUN Party seats from 8 to 7. == Name ==