1967 South Korean legislative election

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1967 South Korean legislative election
Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).svg
  1963 8 June 1967 1971  

All 175 seats in the National Assembly
88 seats needed for a majority
Turnout76.12% (Increase2.svg 4.01pp)
 Majority partyMinority party
  Park Chung-hee 1963's.png 3x4.svg
Leader Park Chung-hee Yu Jin-oh
Party Democratic Republican New Democratic
Last election110 seats65 [a]
Seats won12945
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 19Decrease2.svg 20
Popular vote5,494,9223,554,224
Percentage50.62%32.74%
SwingIncrease2.svg 17.14ppDecrease2.svg 17.91

Republic of Korea legislative election 1967 districts result.png
Results by constituency

Speaker before election

Rhee Hyo-sang
Democratic Republican

Elected Speaker

Rhee Hyo-sang
Democratic Republican

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 8 June 1967. [1] The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party, which won 129 of the 175 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 76.1%.

Contents

Electoral system

The unicameral National Assembly was elected by parallel voting, with 131 legislators elected in single-member constituencies and 44 allocated via a modified formula on the national level, excluding parties that did not win more than three seats or more than 5% of the valid vote. If the percentage of votes for the first-placed party was over 50%, the national seats would be allocated in proportion to vote share, with the first-placed party being limited to two-thirds of the available national seats (it would then be eliminated from further consideration for national seats).

When the number of votes of the top party was less than 50%, half of the seats in the national constituency were automatically allocated to the first-placed party (which was then eliminated from further consideration for national seats), and the process repeated for the remaining parties (meaning the second place party would now be considered the "top party" for purposes of the next allocation) until all remaining seats were allocated.

Results

1
45
129
PartyVotes%Seats
FPTPPRTotal+/–
Democratic Republican Party 5,494,92250.6210227129+19
New Democratic Party 3,554,22432.74281745–20
Liberal Party 393,4483.620000
Democratic Party  [ ko ]323,2032.98000New
Mass Party  [ ko ]249,5612.30101New
Korea Independence Party 240,9362.220000
People's Party  [ ko ]180,3241.66000–2
Justice Party142,6701.31000New
Democratic Socialist Party  [ ko ]104,9750.97000New
Free People's Party88,4740.81000New
New Korea Party83,2710.77000New
Total10,856,008100.00131441750
Valid votes10,856,00896.91
Invalid/blank votes346,3093.09
Total votes11,202,317100.00
Registered voters/turnout14,717,35476.12
Source: Nohlen et al.

Results by city/province

RegionTotal
seats
Seats won
DRP NDP MP
Seoul 141130
Busan 7250
Gyeonggi 131030
Gangwon 9810
North Chungcheong 8800
South Chungcheong 131210
North Jeolla 111100
South Jeolla 191621
North Gyeongsang 201820
South Gyeongsang 151410
Jeju 2200
Constituency total131102281
PR list4427170
Total175129451

Notes

  1. Civil Rule Party, Democratic Party, Liberal Democratic Party and People's Party

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References

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