section_path: History
section_name: History
paragraph_text: History
  
  The party was founded as a political organisation in 1976, born out of the increased youth radicalism in Denmark during the 1970s.
  
  In 1982, the party successfully campaigned in a national referendum for Greenland to leave the European Economic Community (EEC).
  
  Inuit Ataqatigiit made a major electoral breakthrough in the 2009 Greenlandic parliamentary election. Making gains from the 2005 Greenlandic parliamentary election, it doubled its total number of seats in the Parliament from seven to 14 seats out of 31, just two seats short of a majority, and nearly doubled its total vote share from 22.4% to 43.7%. It supplanted both its coalition partners, shifting the Forward party from first to second and the Democrats party from second to third. At the 2014 elections, the party obtained 11 members in the Greenlandic parliament, but after elections in 2018, their share decreased to eight seats. Following the 2021 elections, Inuit Ataqatigiit once again became the largest party in the Greenlandic parliament, with 12 seats, but fell to third place with 7 seats in 2025.