1981 South Korean legislative election
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Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 25 March 1981.[1]
The new electoral system abolished appointed seats (1/3 of the National Assembly), which was replaced by proportional representation. The result was a victory for the Democratic Justice Party, which won 151 of the 276 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 77.7%.
The election was held under the influence of Coup d'état of 1979 and 1980. Major opposition political figures like Kim Young-sam was barred from running. Kim Dae-jung was arrested on May 17, 1980, and was a prisoner under death row, having been convicted of a fabricated charge of "inciting rebellion". Even the conservative Democratic Republican Party of Park Chung-hee was forcibly dissolved, and major figures like Kim Jong-pil was barred from running.
The election, while ostensibly a multi-party election, is widely considered to have been a fraudulent one, with supposed "opposition" politicians being heavily vetted by the Agency for National Security Planning and the South Korean .
Results[]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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FPTP | PR | Total | +/– | |||||
Democratic Justice Party | 5,776,624 | 35.64 | 90 | 61 | 151 | +83 | ||
Democratic Korea Party | 3,495,829 | 21.57 | 57 | 24 | 81 | New | ||
Korean National Party | 2,147,293 | 13.25 | 18 | 7 | 25 | New | ||
1,088,847 | 6.72 | 2 | 0 | 2 | New | |||
676,921 | 4.18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | New | |||
524,361 | 3.24 | 2 | 0 | 2 | New | |||
227,715 | 1.41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | New | |||
144,000 | 0.89 | 1 | 0 | 1 | New | |||
Socialist Party | 122,778 | 0.76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Korea Christian Democratic Party | 103,893 | 0.64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Unification National Group Party | 87,977 | 0.54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Won-il Democratic Founding Party | 76,863 | 0.47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Independents | 1,734,224 | 10.70 | 11 | 0 | 11 | –11 | ||
Total | 16,207,325 | 100.00 | 184 | 92 | 276 | +45 | ||
Valid votes | 16,207,325 | 98.84 | ||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 190,520 | 1.16 | ||||||
Total votes | 16,397,845 | 100.00 | ||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 21,094,468 | 77.74 | ||||||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
By city/province[]
Region | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||||||
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Democratic Justice | Democratic Korea | Korean National | Civil Rights | New Politics | Democratic Socialist | Democratic Farmer's | Peaceful People | Ind. | ||
Seoul | 28 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Busan | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gyeonggi | 24 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gangwon | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Chungcheong | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
South Chungcheong | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
North Jeolla | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Jeolla | 22 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
North Gyeongsang | 26 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
South Gyeongsang | 20 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Jeju | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Constituency total | 184 | 90 | 57 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
PR list | 92 | 61 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 276 | 151 | 81 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
References[]
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- Legislative elections in South Korea
- 1981 elections in South Korea