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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
 
Leader Park Chung-hee Kim Hong-il
Party Democratic Republican New Democratic
Leader since 31 August 1963 12 May 1971
Leader's seat not contesting
(President)
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 1.8%p Increase 11.7%p


Speaker before election

Lee Hyo Sang
Democratic Republican

Speaker

Baek Du-jin
Democratic Republican

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%.

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Democratic Republican Party 5,460,581 48.8 113 –16
New Democratic Party 4,969,050 44.4 89 +44
National Party 454,257 4.0 1 New
People's Party [ko] 155,277 1.4 1 +1
Unificational Socialist Party 97,398 0.9 0 0
Mass Party 59,359 0.5 0 –1
Invalid/blank votes 234,280
Total 11,430,202 100 204 +29
Registered voters/turnout 15,610,258 73.2
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8