1950 South Korean legislative election
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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 30 May 1950.[1] The elections resulted in a tie between the Democratic Nationalist Party and the Korea Nationalist Party, which both won 24 seats,although a majority of the 210 seats were won by independents. Voter turnout was 92%.
Results
[edit]Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Democratic Nationalist Party | 683,910 | 9.79 | 24 | |
Korea Nationalist Party | 677,173 | 9.69 | 24 | |
National Association | 473,153 | 6.77 | 14 | |
Korea Youth Party | 227,539 | 3.26 | 10 | |
Korean Federation of Trade Unions | 117,939 | 1.69 | 3 | |
Socialist Party | 89,413 | 1.28 | 2 | |
Ilmin Club | 71,239 | 1.02 | 3 | |
Korea Independence Workers Party | 45,813 | 0.66 | 0 | |
National Independence Federation | 33,464 | 0.48 | 1 | |
Korea Independence Party | 17,745 | 0.25 | 0 | |
Other parties | 152,365 | 2.18 | 3 | |
Independents | 4,397,287 | 62.93 | 126 | |
Total | 6,987,040 | 100.00 | 210 | |
Valid votes | 6,987,040 | 90.13 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 765,036 | 9.87 | ||
Total votes | 7,752,076 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 8,434,737 | 91.91 | ||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
By city/province
[edit]Region | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||||
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DNP | KNP | NP | YP | FTU | SP | IC | NIF | Other | Ind. | ||
Seoul | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Gyeonggi | 30 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Gangwon | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
North Chungcheong | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
South Chungcheong | 19 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
North Jeolla | 22 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
South Jeolla | 30 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
North Gyeongsang | 34 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22 |
South Gyeongsang | 32 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
Jeju | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Total | 210 | 28 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 129 |
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