1963 South Korean legislative election

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 November 1963.[1] They were the first held after the 1961 coup and subsequent approval of a new constitution the previous December, which inaugurated the Third Republic.

1963 South Korean legislative election

26 November 1963
All 175 seats to the National Assembly 88 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	72.1% (12.2 pp)
Leader Park Chung-hee Yun Posun Park Soon-cheon Party Democratic Republican Civil Rule Democratic 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%   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%

The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party of coup leader Park Chung-hee, which won 110 of the 175 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 72.1%.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				FPTP	PR	Total	+/–
	Democratic Republican Party	3,112,985	33.5	88	22	110	New
	Civil Rule Party	1,870,976	20.1	27	14	41	New
	Democratic Party	1,264,285	13.6	8	5	13	–162
	People's Party	822,000	8.8	2	0	2	New
	Liberal Democratic Party	752,026	8.1	6	3	9	New
	Conservative Party	276,477	3.0	0	0	0	New
	Liberal Party	271,820	2.9	0	0	0	–2
	Righteous Citizens Party	259,960	2.8	0	0	0	New
	New Development Party	189,077	2.0	0	0	0	New
	Autumn Wind Association	193,938	2.0	0	0	0	New
	New People's Association	175,124	1.8	0	0	0	New
Invalid/blank votes		323,353	–	–	–	–	–
Total		9,622,183	100	131	44	175	–58
Registered voters/turnout		13,344,149	72.1	–	–	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

Results by city/province

Region	Total seats	Seats won
		Democratic Republican	Civil Rule	Democratic	Liberal Democratic	People's
Seoul	14	2	7	4	1	0
Busan	7	6	1	0	0	0
Gyeonggi	13	7	5	1	0	0
Gangwon	9	7	0	1	1	0
North Chungcheong	8	6	1	0	1	0
South Chungcheong	13	8	3	0	0	2
North Jeolla	11	7	4	0	0	0
South Jeolla	19	12	3	1	3	0
North Gyeongsang	20	19	1	0	0	0
South Gyeongsang	15	12	2	1	0	0
Jeju	2	2	0	0	0	0
Constituency total	131	88	27	8	6	2
PR list	44	22	14	5	3	0
Total	175	110	41	13	9	2

References

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