South Korean legislative election, 1963

26 November 1963

All 175 seats to the National Assembly
88 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

72.1% (

12.2%)

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Park Chung-hee	Yun Posun	Park Soon-cheon
Party	Democratic Republican	Civil Rights	Democratic Party
Leader since	31 August 1963	15 September 1963	18 July 1963
Leader's seat	not contesting (President)	PR List 1	Mapo
Seats won	110	40	14
Popular vote	3,112,985	1,870,976	1,252,827
Percentage	33.5%	20.1%	13.5%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Kim Jun-yeon	Kim Byeong-ro
Party	Liberal Democratic	People's
Leader since	3 September 1963	12 September 1963
Leader's seat	Yeongam, Gangjin	-
Seats won	9	2
Popular vote	752,026	822,000
Percentage	8.1%	8.8%

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Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 November 1963.^[1] The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party, which won 110 of the 175 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 72.1%.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Democratic Republican Party	3,112,985	33.5	110	New
Civil Rights Party	1,870,976	20.1	41	New
Democratic Party	1,264,285	13.6	13	–162
People's Party	822,000	8.8	2	New
Liberal Democratic Party	752,026	8.1	9	New
Conservative Party	276,477	3.0	0	New
Liberal Party	271,820	2.9	0	–2
Righteous Citizens Party	259,960	2.8	0	New
New Development Party	189,077	2.0	0	New
Autumn Wind Association	193,938	2.0	0	New
New People's Association	175,124	1.8	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	323,353	–	–	–
Total	9,622,183	100	175	–58
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

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

Elections and referendums in South Korea
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