1971 South Korean legislative election
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%.
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Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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FPTP | PR | Total | +/– | |||||
Democratic Republican Party | 5,460,581 | 48.77 | 86 | 27 | 113 | –16 | ||
New Democratic Party | 4,969,050 | 44.38 | 65 | 24 | 89 | +44 | ||
National Party | 454,257 | 4.06 | 1 | 0 | 1 | New | ||
People's Party | 155,277 | 1.39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | ||
Unificational Socialist Party | 97,398 | 0.87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ±0 | ||
Mass Party | 59,359 | 0.53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –1 | ||
Total | 11,195,922 | 100.00 | 153 | 51 | 204 | +29 | ||
Valid votes | 11,195,922 | 97.95 | ||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 234,280 | 2.05 | ||||||
Total votes | 11,430,202 | 100.00 | ||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 15,610,258 | 73.22 | ||||||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
By city/province
Region | Total seats |
Seats won | |||
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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
- Park Chung-hee was the President and thus ineligible to run for the National Assembly.
- 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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