South Korean legislative election, 1981

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Parliamentary elections were held in South Korea on 25 March 1981.^[1] The result was a victory for the Democratic Justice Party, which won 151 of the 276 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 77.7%.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Democratic Justice Party	5,776,624	35.6	151	+83
Democratic Korea Party	3,495,829	21.6	81	New
Korean National Party	2,147,293	13.2	25	New
Civil Rights Party	1,088,847	6.7	2	New
New Politics Party	676,921	4.2	2	New
Democratic Socialist Party	524,361	3.2	2	New
Democratic Farmer's Party	227,715	1.4	1	New
Peaceful People Party	144,000	0.9	1	New
Socialist Party	122,778	0.8	0	New
Korea Christian Democratic Party	103,893	0.6	0	New
Unification National Group Party	87,977	0.5	0	New
Won-il Democratic Founding Party	76,863	0.5	0	New
Independents	1,734,224	10.7	11	–11
Invalid/blank votes	190,520	–	–	–
Total	16,397,845	100	276	+45
Registered voters/turnout	21,094,468	77.7	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

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

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