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. All candidates had to run under the banner of a political party.

1963 South Korean legislative election
South Korea
← 1960 26 November 1963 1967 →

All 175 seats in the National Assembly
88 seats needed for a majority
Turnout72.11% (Decrease 12.24pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Democratic Republican Park Chung Hee 33.48 110 New
Civil Rule Yun Posun 20.12 41 New
Democratic Park Soon-cheon 13.60 13 −162
People's Kim Byeong-ro 8.84 2 New
Liberal Democratic Kim Jun-yeon 8.09 9 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency
Speaker before Speaker after
None None

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%.

Electoral system

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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

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PartyVotes%Seats
FPTPPRTotal+/–
Democratic Republican Party3,112,98533.488822110New
Civil Rule Party1,870,97620.12271441New
Democratic Party1,264,28513.608513–162
People's Party822,0008.84202New
Liberal Democratic Party752,0268.09639New
Conservative Party278,4772.99000New
Liberal Party271,8202.92000–2
Righteous Citizens Party259,9602.80000New
New Development Party189,0772.03000New
Autumn Wind Association183,9381.98000New
New People's Association165,1241.78000New
Korea Independence Party128,1621.380000
Total9,298,830100.0013144175–58
Valid votes9,298,83096.64
Invalid/blank votes323,3533.36
Total votes9,622,183100.00
Registered voters/turnout13,344,14972.11
Source: Nohlen et al.

By city/province

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Region Total
seats
Seats won
DRP CR DP LDP PP
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

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