South Korean legislative election, 2000

13 April 2000

All 273 seats to the National Assembly of South Korea 137 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	57.2%
	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Lee Hoi-chang	Kim Dae-jung	Kim Jong-pil
Party	Grand National	Millennium Democratic	ULD
Leader since	Sep.~Nov. 1997(NKP) 31 August 1998	5 September 1995(NC) 20 January 2000	21 March 1995
Leader's seat	PR List 1	not contesting (President)	PR List 1
Last election	139 seats, 34.5%(NKP)	79 seats, 25.3%(NC)	50 seats, 16.2%
Seats before	120	105	52
Seats won	133	115	17
Seat change	13	10	35
Popular vote	7,365,359	6,780,625	1,859,331
Percentage	39,0%	35.9%	9.8%

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Parliamentary elections were held in South Korea on 13 April 2000.^[1] Many questionnaire was shown that democrats would had more seats and votes, but the result was a victory for the Grand National Party, which won 133 of the 273 seats in the National Assembly. ULD lost 2/3 of the seats, due to GNP's victory in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gangwon-do (South Korea), and also fewer local votes in Chungcheong. However, GNP not reached half seats, so 16th parliament became Hung Parliament, and this is the only parliament that President's party lost majority. So democrats, ULD and even Democratic People's Party(DPP) started coalition again to gain majority. The voter turnout was 57.2%. This election was the first election of Democratic Labour Party, with no seats.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Grand National Party	7,365,359	39.0	133	+13
Millennium Democratic Party	6,780,625	35.9	115	+10
United Liberal Democrats	1,859,331	9.8	17	-35
Democratic People's Party	695,423	3.7	2	-5
Democratic Labor Party	223,261	1.2	0	New
Young Progressive Party	125,082	0.7	0	New
New Korean Party of Hope	77,498	0.4	1	New(-)
Republican Party	3,950	0.02	0	New
Independents	1,774,211	9.4	5	-9
Invalid/blank votes	252,384	-	-	-
Total	19,157,124	100	273	-26
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

External links

International Foundation for Election Systems election results page

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