2000 South Korean legislative election
South Korea
13 April 2000
All 273 seats in the National Assembly
137 seats needed for a majority
Turnout57.22% (Decrease 6.69pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Grand National Lee Hoi-chang 38.96 133 −21
Millennium Democratic Kim Dae-jung 35.87 115 +36
United Liberal Democrats Kim Jong-pil 9.84 17 −33
Democratic People's Cho Soon 3.68 2 New
New Korea Kim Yong-hwan
Heo Hwa-pyeong		 0.41 1 New
Independents – 9.39 5 −11
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results of the election
Speaker before Speaker after
Park Jyun-kyu
United Liberal Democrats		 Lee Man-sup
Millennium Democratic

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 13 April 2000.[1]

Opinion polls suggested that the ruling Democratic Party would win the most seats, but the result was a victory for the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), which won 133 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly. The United Liberal Democrats (ULD) lost two-thirds of their seats due to GNP's victory in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gangwon-do (South Korea), and also fewer local votes in Chungcheong.

With no party winning a majority, the 16th parliament was the first hung parliament in South Korean history.[2]

The Democrats, ULD and Democratic People's Party (DPP) formed a coalition to gain a majority. However, the ULD withdrew support in 2001 and joined the conservative opposition. Seven ULD members subsequently defected from the party and joined the GNP, giving it a majority.

Electoral system

Of the 273 seats, 227 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

Parties Leader Ideology Seats Status
Last election Before election
Grand National Party Kim Young-sam Conservatism
139 / 299
[lower-alpha 1]
128 / 299
 Government
15 / 299
[lower-alpha 2]
Millennium Democratic Party Cho Soon-hyung Liberalism
79 / 299
[lower-alpha 3]
98 / 299
 Opposition
United Liberal Democrats Kim Jong-pil Conservatism
50 / 299
52 / 299
 Opposition
Democratic People's Party Cho Soon Did not exist
8 / 299
 Opposition
New Korea Party of Hope Kim Yong-hwan
Heo Hwa-pyeong
3 / 299
 Opposition

Results

Party or allianceVotes%Seats
FPTPPRTotal+/–
Grand National Party7,365,35938.9611221133–21
Alliance of DJPMillennium Democratic Party6,780,62535.879619115+36
United Liberal Democrats1,859,3319.8412517–33
Total8,639,95645.7010824132New
Democratic People's Party695,4233.68112New
Democratic Labor Party223,2611.18000New
Young Progressive Party125,0820.66000New
New Korea Party of Hope77,4980.41101New
Democratic Republican Party3,9500.02000New
Independents1,774,2119.39505–11
Total18,904,740100.0022746273–26
Valid votes18,904,74098.68
Invalid/blank votes252,3841.32
Total votes19,157,124100.00
Registered voters/turnout33,482,38757.22
Source: Nohlen et al.

By city/province

Region Total
seats		 Seats won
GNP MDP ULD DPP NKPH Ind.
Seoul 45 17 28 0 0 0 0
Busan 17 17 0 0 0 0 0
Daegu 11 11 0 0 0 0 0
Incheon 11 5 6 0 0 0 0
Gwangju 6 0 5 0 0 0 1
Daejeon 6 1 2 3 0 0 0
Ulsan 5 4 0 0 0 0 1
Gyeonggi 41 18 22 1 0 0 0
Gangwon 9 3 5 0 1 0 0
North Chungcheong 7 3 2 2 0 0 0
South Chungcheong 11 0 4 6 0 1 0
North Jeolla 10 0 9 0 0 0 1
South Jeolla 13 0 11 0 0 0 2
North Gyeongsang 16 16 0 0 0 0 0
South Gyeongsang 16 16 0 0 0 0 0
Jeju 3 1 2 0 0 0 0
Constituency total 227 112 96 12 1 1 5
PR list 46 21 19 5 1 0 0
Total 299 133 115 17 2 1 5

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
  2. ↑ "Korea Elections: A Shocking Eruption of Public Dissatisfaction". The Asia Foundation. 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
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