1996 South Korean legislative election

none South Korea 1984 legislative 1992 South Korean legislative election 1992 2000 South Korean legislative election 2000 63.91% ( 7.95pp) All 299 seats in the National Assembly 150 11 April 1996 Kim Young-sam presidential portrait.jpg Kim Young-sam New Korea Party 149 seatsas Democratic Liberal Party 139 10 6,783,730 34.52% 3.97pp Kim Dae-jung presidential portrait.jpg Kim Dae-jung National Congress for New Politics Did not exist 79 New 4,971,961 25.30% New Kim Jong-pil.png Kim Jong-pil United Liberal Democrats 32 seatsUnification National Party and New Political Reform Party 50 18 3,178,474 16.17% 2.99pp Park IlChang Eul-byung United Democratic 97 seatsas Democratic Party 15 82 2,207,695 11.23% 17.94pp 1996 South Korean legislative election.svg 300px Results of the election. Speaker Hwang Nak-joo New Korea Party Kim Soo-han New Korea Party Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 12 April 1996.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 0-19-924959-8 The result was a victory for the New Korea Party, which won 139 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 63.9%. Although the New Korea Party remained the largest party in the National Assembly, it failed to win the majority. Electoral system Of the 299 seats, 253 were elected in single-member districts via first-past-the-post voting, while the remainder were allocated via proportional representation at the national level. 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 List of political parties in South Korea Parties Leader Ideology Seats StatusLast electionBefore election New Korea Partyas Democratic Liberal Party Kim Young-sam Conservatism 149 299 Democratic Liberal Party (South Korea) 146 299 Democratic Liberal Party (South Korea) Government National Congress for New Politics Cho Soon-hyung Liberalism Did not exist 52 299 National Congress for New Politics Opposition United Democratic Party Park IlChang Eul-byung 97 299 Democratic Party (South Korea, 1991)as Democratic Party 36 299 Democratic Party (South Korea, 1995) Opposition United Liberal Democrats Kim Jong-pil Conservatism 31 299 Unification National PartyUnification National Party 29 299 United Liberal Democrats rowspan="2" Opposition 1 299 New Political Reform PartyNew Political Reform Party The governing New Korea Party (formerly the Democratic Liberal Party) of President Kim Young-sam, lost its absolute congressional majority. The election was held three years into President Kim's five year mandate. The opposition National Congress for New Politics was formed by veteran opposition leader Kim Dae-jung and his supporters in the Democratic Party. Kim had retired from politics following his loss in the 1992 Presidential election but formed the new party after his return in 1995. The right-wing United Liberal Democrats was led by former Prime Minister of South Korea Kim Jong-pil, a former ally of President Kim. He had been a member of the former ruling Democratic Liberal Party but broke with it after Kim's victory in 1992. It joined with Kim Dae Jung's opposition and formed coalition. The United Democratic Party had once been the premier opposition party. It supported Kim Dae-jung's unsuccessful Presidential campaign in 1992 and was the largest opposition party in the outgoing National Assembly. However, following the defection of Kim and his supporters, the party was reduced to a minor force. It later merged to Kim Young-sam's party. Results #f8f9fa 79 National Congress for New Politics 15 Democratic Party (South Korea, 1995) 139 Democratic Liberal Party (South Korea) 50 United Liberal Democrats 16 Independent FPTP PR Total +/– New Korea Party 6783730 121 18 139 –10 Democratic Liberal Party (South Korea) National Congress for New Politics 4971961 66 13 79 New United Liberal Democrats 3178474 41 9 50 +18 United Democratic Party 2207695 9 6 15 –82 Unified People of Non-faction Party 177050 0 0 0 New #0898D0 Great Korean Democratic Party 3114 0 0 0 New # 21st Century Korean Independence Party 1693 0 0 0 New #D04030 Chinmin Party 571 0 0 0 New Independents 2328785 16 0 16 –5 469726 253 46 299 0 31488294 Nohlen et al. By city/province + Results by city/provinces RegionNKPNCNPULDUDPInd. Totalseats Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seoul 27 36.5 18 35.2 0 11.3 1 13.5 1 3.1 47 Busan 21 55.8 0 6.4 0 5.5 0 18.8 0 11.7 21 Daegu 2 24.5 0 1.4 8 35.8 0 4.0 3 11.7 13 Incheon 9 38.2 2 29.5 0 14.5 0 11.0 0 5.9 11 Gwangju 0 7.5 6 86.2 0 0.8 0 2.0 0 3.4 6 Daejeon 0 21.4 0 11.4 7 49.8 0 12.6 0 4.1 7 Gyeonggi 18 33.2 10 27.4 5 18.6 3 13.9 2 6.6 38 Gangwon 9 37.3 0 6.7 2 23.6 2 14.5 0 17.7 13 North Chungcheong 2 31.5 0 8.9 5 39.4 0 8.9 1 10.9 8 South Chungcheong 1 28.9 0 6.1 12 51.2 0 7.9 0 5.5 13 North Jeolla 1 23.4 13 63.7 0 0.5 0 5.8 0 5.7 14 South Jeolla 0 17.7 17 71.0 0 0.8 0 1.3 0 9.3 17 North Gyeongsang 11 34.9 0 1.6 2 20.6 1 6.9 5 33.3 19 South Gyeongsang 17 46.5 0 4.2 0 4.7 2 14.7 4 18.7 23 Jeju 3 37.2 0 29.4 0 1.2 0 2.0 0 30.2 3 Constituency total 121 34.5 66 25.3 41 16.2 9 11.2 16 11.8 253 PR seats 18 13 9 6 – 46 Total seats 139 79 50 15 16 299 Notes References External links 1996 elections in South Korea Inter-Parliamentary Union Category:Legislative elections in South Korea Parliamentary election