1971 South Korean legislative election

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1971 South Korean legislative election

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All 204 seats to the National Assembly
103 seats needed for a majority
Turnout73.2% (Decrease2.8 pp)
  Majority party Minority party
  Park Chung-hee 1963's.png Kim Hong-il 1961-may-20.jpg
Leader Park Chung-hee Kim Hong-il
Party Democratic Republican New Democratic
Leader since 31 August 1963 12 May 1971
Leader's seat Did not contest[1] PR List 4
Last election 129 seats 45 seats
Seats won 113 89
Seat change Decrease 16 Increase 44
Popular vote 5,460,581 4,969,050
Percentage 48.8% 44.4%
Swing Decrease 1.8pp Increase 5.8pp

Republic of Korea legislative election 1971 districts result.png

Speaker before election


Democratic Republican

Speaker

Baek Du-jin
Democratic Republican

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 25 May 1971.[2] The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party, which won 113 of the 204 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 73.2%.

Results[]

PartyVotes%Seats
FPTPPRTotal+/–
Democratic Republican Party5,460,58148.778627113–16
New Democratic Party4,969,05044.38652489+44
454,2574.06101New
People's Party155,2771.39101+1
Unificational Socialist Party97,3980.87000±0
59,3590.53000–1
Total11,195,922100.0015351204+29
Valid votes11,195,92297.95
Invalid/blank votes234,2802.05
Total votes11,430,202100.00
Registered voters/turnout15,610,25873.22
Source: Nohlen et al.

By city/province[]

Region Total
seats
Seats won
Democratic Republican New Democratic National People's
Seoul 19 1 18 0 0
Busan 8 2 6 0 0
Gyeonggi 16 11 4 0 1
Gangwon 9 8 1 0 0
North Chungcheong 8 6 2 0 0
South Chungcheong 15 11 4 0 0
North Jeolla 12 6 6 0 0
South Jeolla 22 15 7 0 0
North Gyeongsang 24 15 8 1 0
South Gyeongsang 18 9 9 0 0
Jeju 2 2 0 0 0
Constituency total 153 86 65 1 1
PR list 51 27 24 0 0
Total 204 113 89 1 1

References[]

  1. ^ Park Chung-hee was the President and thus ineligible to run for the National Assembly.
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
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