1958 South Korean legislative election
Legislative elections were held in South Korea on Friday 2 May 1958.[1] The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 126 of the 233 seats. Voter turnout was 87.8%.
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| Turnout | 87.80% ( 3.34pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Electoral system
The elections were held under first-past-the-post voting.
Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Liberal Party | 3,607,092 | 42.07 | 126 | +12 | |
| Democratic Party | 2,914,049 | 33.99 | 79 | +64 | |
| Unification Party | 53,716 | 0.63 | 1 | New | |
| National Association | 50,568 | 0.59 | 0 | –3 | |
| Other parties | 90,160 | 1.05 | 0 | – | |
| Independents | 1,857,707 | 21.67 | 27 | –41 | |
| Total | 8,573,292 | 100.00 | 233 | +30 | |
| Valid votes | 8,576,757 | 96.11 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 347,148 | 3.89 | |||
| Total votes | 8,923,905 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 10,164,428 | 87.80 | |||
| Source: Nohlen et al.[lower-alpha 1] | |||||
- The results are inconsistent, with a difference of 3,465 between the party vote totals and the reported number of valid votes.[2]
By city/province
| Region | Total seats |
Seats won | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP | DP | UP | Ind. | ||
| Seoul | 16 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| Gyeonggi | 25 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| Gangwon | 20 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| North Chungcheong | 13 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| South Chungcheong | 22 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| North Jeolla | 24 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 3 |
| South Jeolla | 32 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 3 |
| North Gyeongsang | 38 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 6 |
| South Gyeongsang | 40 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 5 |
| Jeju | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 233 | 126 | 79 | 1 | 27 |
Notes
References
- Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- Nohlen et al., pp428–429
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