Today (19 January), the Democratic Party of Mongolia has held  its National Congress and elected  party’s chairman. A total of four people were nominated for the leader of the Democratic Party; namely, MP S. Odontuya, former MP S. Bayartsogt, former Education Minister Lu.Gantumor, and Z.Narantuya. However, candidate S.Odontuya withdrew from competition.

Former MP Lu.Gantumor became the party leader with 152 votes following S.Bayartsogt got 129 votes, and Z.Narantuya got 12 votes after counting all the votes. 

After the 1990 democratic revolution, Mongolia became a country with a multi-party system. On 6 December 2000, five political parties – including the Mongolian National Democratic Party, Mongolian Social Democratic Party and others merged and established the Democratic Party of Mongolia. On 1 April 2006, a party convention elected Ts.Elbegdorj as the Party Leader.

In the 2012 parliamentary election, the party won 34 seats in the country’s 76-seat unicameral legislature, which was only a handful short of the simple majority requirement to unilaterally govern the country. The party suffered a severe loss in the subsequent parliamentary election, with the opposing Mongolian People’s Party obtaining a supermajority in the parliament in 2016. In the 2021 Mongolian presidential election, Democratic Party fell to the third place with only 6.37 percent of the popular vote and thus lost the presidency.