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1963 South Korean legislative election

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FieldValue
countrySouth Korea
flag_year1949
typelegislative
previous_election1960 South Korean parliamentary election
previous_year1960
next_election1967 South Korean legislative election
next_year1967
turnout72.11% ( 12.24pp)
seats_for_electionAll 175 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats88
election_date26 November 1963
image_size130x130px
image1Park_Chung-hee_1963's.png
leader1Park Chung-hee
party1Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)
seats1110
popular_vote13,112,985
percentage133.48%
image2Yun Bo-seon.jpg
leader2Yun Posun
party2Civil Rule Party
seats241
popular_vote21,870,976
percentage220.12%
image3박순천.png
leader3Park Soon-cheon
party3Democratic Party (South Korea, 1955)
seats313
popular_vote31,252,827
percentage313.60%
leader4Kim Byeong-ro
party4People's Party (South Korea, 1963)
color4663
seats42
popular_vote4822,000
percentage48.84%
image5Kim Jun-yeon, Speaker of National Assembly of South Korea.jpg
leader5Kim Chun-yon
party5Liberal Democratic
color5005848
seats59
popular_vote5752,026
percentage58.09%
map_imageRepublic_of_Korea_legislative_election_1963_districts_result.png
map_captionResults by constituency
titleSpeaker
before_electionNone
after_electionNone

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 November 1963. 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.

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

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

By city/province

RegionTotal
seatsSeats wonDRPCRDPLDPPPDemocratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}"Civil Rule Party}}"Democratic Party (South Korea, 1955)}}"People's Party (South Korea, 1963)}}"Seoul14Busan7Gyeonggi13Gangwon9North Chungcheong8South Chungcheong13North Jeolla11South Jeolla19North Gyeongsang20South Gyeongsang15Jeju2Constituency total1318827862PR list442214530Total175110411392
27410
61000
75100
70110
61010
83002
74000
123130
191000
122100
20000

References

References

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