1981 South Korean legislative election

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 25 March 1981.[1]

1981 South Korean legislative election

25 March 1981
All 276 seats to the National Assembly 139 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	77.7% (0.6 pp)
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Chun Doo-hwan Yu Chi-song Kim Jong-cheol Party Democratic Justice Democratic Korea Korean National Leader since January 1981 January 1981 23 January 1981 Leader's seat not contesting (President) Pyeongtaek, Anseong not contesting Seats won 151 81 25 Popular vote 5,776,624 3,495,829 2,147,293 Percentage 35.6% 21.6% 13.3%
Speaker before election Dissolution of parliament Elected Speaker Jung Rae Hyuk Democratic Justice

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The new electoral system for the National Assembly implemented a system of proportional representation, while abolishing the president's power to appoint one-third of the chamber's members. 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 were barred from running. Kim Dae-jung was arrested on May 17, 1980, and was sentenced to death on a of "inciting rebellion". Even the Democratic Republican Party of the late president 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 Army Security Command.