1958 South Korean legislative election
South Korea
2 May 1958
All 233 seats in the House of Representatives
117 seats needed for a majority
Turnout87.80% (Decrease 3.34pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Liberal Syngman Rhee 42.07 126 +12
Democratic Chough Pyung-ok 33.99 79 +64
Unification 0.63 1 New
Independents – 21.67 27 −41
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on Friday 2 May 1958.[1] The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 126 of the 233 seats. Voter turnout was 87.8%.

Electoral system

The elections were held under first-past-the-post voting.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Liberal Party3,607,09242.07126+12
Democratic Party2,914,04933.9979+64
Unification Party53,7160.631New
National Association50,5680.590–3
Other parties90,1601.050–
Independents1,857,70721.6727–41
Total8,573,292100.00233+30
Valid votes8,576,75796.11
Invalid/blank votes347,1483.89
Total votes8,923,905100.00
Registered voters/turnout10,164,42887.80
Source: Nohlen et al.[lower-alpha 1]
  1. ↑ The results are inconsistent, with a difference of 3,465 between the party vote totals and the reported number of valid votes.[2]

By city/province

Region Total
seats		 Seats won
LP DP UP Ind.
Seoul 16 1 14 0 1
Gyeonggi 25 14 8 0 3
Gangwon 20 15 2 0 3
North Chungcheong 13 8 4 0 1
South Chungcheong 22 15 6 0 1
North Jeolla 24 10 11 0 3
South Jeolla 32 18 10 1 3
North Gyeongsang 38 24 8 0 6
South Gyeongsang 40 20 15 0 5
Jeju 3 1 1 0 1
Total 233 126 79 1 27

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
    2. ↑ Nohlen et al., pp428–429
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