1971 South Korean legislative election

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 25 May 1971.[1] 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%.

1971 South Korean legislative election
South Korea
25 May 1971

All 204 seats in the National Assembly
103 seats needed for a majority
Turnout73.22% (Decrease 2.90pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Democratic Republican Park Chung-hee 48.77 113 -16
New Democratic Kim Hong-il 44.38 89 +44
National 4.06 1 New
People's 1.39 19 +19
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency
Speaker before Speaker after
Lee Hyo Sang
Democratic Republican
Baek Du-jin
Democratic Republican

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
FPTPPRTotal+/–
Democratic Republican Party5,460,58148.778627113–16
New Democratic Party4,969,05044.38652489+44
National Party454,2574.06101New
People's Party155,2771.39101+1
Democratic Socialist Party97,3980.870000
Mass Party59,3590.53000–1
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
DRP NDP NP PP
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. 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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