1988 South Korean legislative election

1988 South Korean legislative election

← 1985 26 April 1988 1992 →
All 299 seats in the National Assembly 150 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	75.77% (8.80pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– Democratic Justice Roh Tae-woo 33.96 125 −23 Reunification Democratic Kim Myeong-yun 23.83 59 New Peace Democratic Park Yeong-suk 19.26 70 New New Democratic Republican Kim Jong-pil 15.59 35 New Hankyoreh Democratic Ye Chun-ho 1.28 1 New Independents – 4.75 9 +5 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by constituency Speaker before Speaker after Lee Jae-hyeong Democratic Justice Kim Jae-soon Democratic Justice

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Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 April 1988.^[1] The result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Justice Party (DJP), which won 125 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 75.8%. This was the first time the ruling party did not win a majority in the National Assembly since the first legislative elections in 1950. In January 1990, the DJP merged with other two opposition parties, leaving the Kim Dae-jung-led Peace Democratic Party to be the sole opposition party.

Electoral system

Of the 299 seats, 224 were elected in single-member districts via first-past-the-post voting, while the remainder were allocated via proportional representation at the national level among parties that won five or more seats in constituencies. One-half of those seats would be awarded to the top party (which was then eliminated from further consideration for national seats), with the remainder allocated based on vote share.

Political parties

The governing Democratic Justice Party (DJP) had recently elected President Roh Tae-woo. While remaining the largest party, the DJP lost its absolute parliamentary majority. The party was hindered by a stronger opposition and the unpopularity of former party leader and President Chun Doo-hwan.

The opposition

For Kim Young-sam's Reunification Democratic Party the election was a major setback, winning third most seats in the parliament. This was after Kim had placed second in the first democratic presidential election, just ahead of Kim Dae-jung.

The New Democratic Republican Party (NDRP) led by former prime Minister

In January 1990, the DJP merged with the parties of Kim Young-sam and Kim Jong-pil to form the Democratic Liberal Party, with the former becoming its nominee in the 1992 presidential elections.

There were 224 constituency seats and 75 at large seats elected from lists in proportion to parties' share of constituency seats.

Results

By city/province

References