1978 South Korean legislative election
South Korea
12 and 21 December 1978
154 of the 231 seats in the National Assembly
78 seats needed for a majority
Turnout77.08% (Increase 5.72pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
New Democratic Yi Cheol-seung 32.82 61 +9
Democratic Republican Park Chung-hee 31.70 68 −5
Democratic Unification Yang il-dong 7.39 3 +1
Independents – 28.09 22 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency
Speaker before Speaker after
Chung Il-kwon
Democratic Republican		 Baek Du-jin
Presidential appointee

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 12 December 1978 to elect 154 members of the National Assembly.[1] Another 77 members appointed by President Park Chung-hee were indirectly elected by the National Conference for Unification on 21 December 1978.[2]

Despite garnering 169,000 fewer popular votes than the opposition New Democratic Party, the ruling Democratic Republican Party won a supermajority victory with 68 of the 154 elected seats in the National Assembly and an additional 77 members appointed by President Park. Voter turnout was 77.1%.

Electoral system

Of the elected seats, two members were elected from each constituency via single non-transferable vote.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
New Democratic Party4,861,20432.8261+9
Democratic Republican Party4,695,99531.7068–5
Democratic Unification Party1,095,0577.393+1
Independents4,160,18728.0922+3
Presidential appointees77+4
Total14,812,443100.00231+12
Valid votes14,812,44398.60
Invalid/blank votes210,9271.40
Total votes15,023,370100.00
Registered voters/turnout19,489,49077.08
Source: Nohlen et al.

By city/province

Region Total seats Seats won
DRP NDP DUP Ind.
Seoul 22 9 11 1 1
Busan 10 4 5 0 1
Gyeonggi 16 8 7 0 1
Gangwon 10 5 3 0 2
North Chungcheong 8 3 4 1 0
South Chungcheong 14 7 5 0 2
North Jeolla 12 6 4 0 2
South Jeolla 20 8 7 1 4
North Gyeongsang 22 9 8 0 5
South Gyeongsang 18 8 7 0 3
Jeju 2 1 0 0 1
Total 146 68 61 3 22

Presidential appointees

On 21 December 1978, the National Conference for Unification indirectly elected 77 members of the National Assembly appointed by President Park Chung-hee. Out of the 2,581 delegates, 2,573 were present with 2,539 of them approving the election of Park's appointees.[2]

PartyVotes%Seats
Presidential appointees2,53999.1077
Against230.90–
Total2,562100.0077
Valid votes2,56299.57
Invalid/blank votes110.43
Total votes2,573100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,58199.69
Source: JoongAng Ilbo[2]

By city/province

Region Votes Delegates
For Against Invalid Voted Absent Total
Seoul 376 9 4 389 2 391
Busan 143 1 1 145 0 145
Gyeonggi 319 0 0 319 0 319
Gangwon 149 2 0 151 0 151
North Chungcheong 130 1 0 131 0 131
South Chungcheong 229 4 1 234 0 234
North Jeolla 200 1 0 201 2 203
South Jeolla 310 1 1 312 0 312
North Gyeongsang 373 2 1 376 3 379
South Gyeongsang 284 2 2 288 1 289
Jeju 26 0 1 27 0 27
Total 2,539 23 11 2,573 8 2,581
Source: Naver News Library[3]

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
  2. 1 2 3 ""80년대엔 복지사회 기필코 이룩" 3기 유정의원 77명 선출". JoongAng Ilbo. 21 December 1978.
  3. ↑ "三年制議員(삼년제의원)73명 大統領推薦(대통령추천)대로選出(선출)". Naver News Library.
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