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2004 South Korean legislative election

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Field	Value
country	South Korea
flag_year	1997
type	legislative
previous_election	2000 South Korean legislative election	previous_year = 2000	election_date = 15 April 2004	next_election = 2008 South Korean legislative election	next_year = 2008
seats_for_election	All 299 seats in the National Assembly
outgoing_members	List of members of the National Assembly (South Korea), 2000–2004	elected_mps = List of members of the National Assembly (South Korea), 2004–2008
majority_seats	150
turnout	60.63% (3.38pp; Const. votes)
60.63% (New; PR votes)
1blank	Constituency vote	2blank = % and swing
3blank	Regional vote	4blank = % and swing
image1	Minister of Unification Chung Dong-Young.jpg
leader1	Chung Dong-young
party1	Uri Party
last_election1	Did not exist
seats1	152
seat_change1	New
1data1	8,957,665	2data1 = 41.99% (New)
3data1	8,145,824	4data1 = 38.27% (New)
image2	Park Geun-hye.jpg
leader2	Park Geun-hye
party2	Grand National Party
last_election2	133 seats
seats2	121
seat_change2	12
1data2	8,083,609	2data2 = 37.90% (1.06pp)
3data2	7,613,660	4data2 = 35.77% (New)
image4	Kwon Young-Ghil.png
leader4	Kwon Young-ghil
party4	Democratic Labor Party (South Korea)
last_election4	0 seats
seats4	10
seat_change4	10
1data4	920,229	2data4 = 4.31% (3.13pp)
3data4	2,774,061	4data4 = 13.03% (New)
leader5
party5	Millennium Democratic Party
last_election5	115 seats
seats5	9
seat_change5	106
1data5	1,698,368	2data5 = 7.09% (28.78pp)
3data5	2,774,061	4data5 = 7.96% (New)
map_image	South Korean Legislative Election 2004 districts.svg
title	Speaker
before_election	Park Kwan-yong	before_party = Grand National Party
after_election	Kim Won-ki	after_party = Uri Party

60.63% (New; PR votes)

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 15 April 2004. In the 17th election for the National Assembly, voters elected 299 members of the legislature. The newly formed Uri Party and other parties supporting President Roh Moo-hyun, who was impeached by the outgoing National Assembly, won a majority of seats. This was the first time a centre-left liberal party won a majority in the National Assembly since 1960.

Electoral system

The election was held under parallel voting, with 243 members elected in single-member constituencies via first-past-the-post voting and the remainder elected via proportional representation. Proportional seats were only available to parties which won three percent of the national valid vote among seat-allocated parties and/or won five or more constituency seats.

Political parties

Parties	Ideology	Seats	Status	Before election
Grand National Party}}"	Grand National Party	Park Geun-hye	Conservatism
Millennium Democratic Party}}"	Millennium Democratic Party		Liberalism
United Liberal Democrats}}"	United Liberal Democrats	Kim Jong-pil	Conservatism
Democratic People's Party (South Korea)}}"	Democratic People's Party		Conservatism		Opposition}}
New Korea Party of Hope}}"	New Korea Party of Hope		Conservatism	Dissolved

The newly formed liberal Uri Party (Uri-dang or Our Party) gained support through its opposition to the impeachment of President Roh. It won 32 out of 49 seats in Seoul, 44 out of 62 in Incheon and Gyeonggi, confirming that a majority of voters supported the President Roh.

The conservative Grand National Party, which supported the impeachment of President Roh, suffered a loss of support, but won a majority in North Gyeongsang and South Gyeongsang regions and retained the 100 seats necessary to block constitutional changes.

The progressive, socialist Democratic Labor Party got 13.03% of vote share, but won only 10 out of 299 seats due to the FPTP system. However this was considered as a great triumph within political landscape of South Korea which is traditionally anti-communist and against left-wing policies. DLP also won two FPTP seats in Ulsan and Changwon based on labor movement.

The Millennium Democratic Party, formerly the major liberal party, was the second-largest party prior to the election but sustained the biggest loss in the backlash following its leading role in the impeachment of Roh, as much of its support shifted to the Uri Party.

The United Liberal Democrats, a conservative regional party based on North Chungcheong and South Chungcheong regions, lost support since its leader, Kim Jong-pil, did not contest the last presidential election.

Results

By city/province

Region	Uri	GNP	DLP	MDP	ULD	NI21	Ind.	Total
seats	Uri Party}}"		Grand National Party}}"		Democratic Labor Party (South Korea)}}"		Millennium Democratic Party}}"		United Liberal Democrats}}"		Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	Seats	Total	129	42.0	100	37.9	2	4.3	5	8.0	4	2.7	1	2	243
Seoul		32		42.9	16	41.3	0	3.5	0	9.8	0	0.8	0	0	48
Busan	1	38.9		17		52.6	0	2.9	0	0.7	0	0.3	0	0	18
Daegu	0	26.8		12		62.4	0	2.6	0	1.8	0	0.5	0	0	12
Incheon		9		44.6	3	38.9	0	7.4	0	5.2	0	0.7	0	0	12
Gwangju		7		54.1	0	0.1	0	6.2	0	36.5	0	0.3	0	0	7
Daejeon		6		45.7	0	22.4	0	1.5	0	3.2	0	22.1	0	0	6
Ulsan	1	28.1		3		36.3	1	18.0	0	0.6	0	0.8	1	0	6
Gyeonggi		35		45.7	14	40.6	0	4.1	0	6.6	0	0.7	0	0	49
Gangwon	2	38.8		6		43.4	0	4.1	0	6.3	0	0.2	0	0	8
North Chungcheong		8		50.4	0	32.6	0	3.3	0	1.0	0	9.2	0	0	8
South Chungcheong		5		38.9	1	15.8	0	2.2	0	3.5	4	33.8	0	0	10
North Jeolla		11		64.5	0	0.1	0	4.5	0	18.6	0	0.1	0	0	11
South Jeolla		7		49.1	0	0.3	0	2.7	5	36.6	0	0.1	0	1	13
North Gyeongsang	0	25.8		14		54.6	0	3.4	0	0.4	0	0.6	0	1	15
South Gyeongsang	2	34.6		14		48.0	1	8.5	0	0.5	0	0.5	0	0	17
Jeju		3		49.4	0	40.2	0	3.4	0	3.8	0	0.6	0	0	3

Region	Uri	GNP	DLP	MDP	ULD	Other	Uri Party}}"
Seoul		37.7	36.7	12.6	8.4	2.1	2.5
Busan	33.7		49.4	12.0	1.9	0.7	2.3
Daegu	22.3		62.1	11.6	1.1	0.8	2.2
Incheon		39.5	34.6	15.3	5.4	2.1	3.0
Gwangju		51.6	1.8	13.1	31.1	0.3	2.0
Daejeon		43.8	24.3	11.8	3.1	14.5	2.4
Ulsan	31.2		36.4	21.9	1.5	0.8	8.2
Gyeonggi		40.2	35.4	13.5	6.1	2.0	2.8
Gangwon	38.1		40.6	12.8	3.5	1.3	3.6
North Chungcheong		44.7	30.3	13.1	2.2	6.3	3.5
South Chungcheong		38.0	21.2	10.5	2.8	23.8	3.7
North Jeolla		67.3	3.4	11.1	13.6	1.0	3.6
South Jeolla		46.7	2.9	11.2	33.8	1.0	4.4
North Gyeongsang	23.0		58.3	12.0	1.4	1.2	4.1
South Gyeongsang	31.7		47.3	15.8	1.4	0.8	3.0
Jeju		46.0	30.8	14.1	5.1	1.1	2.9
	38.3
23	21	8	4	0	0

Notes

References

link. Yoo. Kyung-jong. Goyang Shinmun. (March 8, 2024)

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