1954 South Korean legislative election
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All 203 seats in the House of Representatives 102 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 91.14% (![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 20 May 1954.[1] The result was a victory for Syngman Rhee's Liberal Party, which won 114 of the 203 seats. Voter turnout was 91.1%.
Electoral system
[edit]The elections were held under first-past-the-post voting.
Results
[edit]Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Liberal Party | 2,756,061 | 36.79 | 114 | New | |
Democratic Nationalist Party | 593,499 | 7.92 | 15 | –9 | |
National Association | 192,109 | 2.56 | 3 | –11 | |
Korea Nationalist Party | 72,923 | 0.97 | 3 | –21 | |
Other parties | 286,097 | 3.82 | 0 | – | |
Independents | 3,591,617 | 47.94 | 68 | –58 | |
Total | 7,492,306 | 100.00 | 203 | –7 | |
Valid votes | 7,492,306 | 97.32 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 206,082 | 2.68 | |||
Total votes | 7,698,388 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 8,446,509 | 91.14 | |||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
Results by city/province
[edit]Region | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||
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LP | DNP | NA | KNP | Other | Ind. | ||
Seoul | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Gyeonggi | 23 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Gangwon | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
North Chungcheong | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
South Chungcheong | 19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
North Jeolla | 22 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
South Jeolla | 30 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
North Gyeongsang | 34 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
South Gyeongsang | 32 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Jeju | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Total | 203 | 111 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 70 |
Source: National Election Commission |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8