1981 South Korean legislative election information
1981 South Korean legislative election
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25 March 1981
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All 276 seats in the National Assembly 139 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
77.74% ( 0.66pp)
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
Democratic Justice
Chun Doo-hwan
35.64
151
New
Democratic Korea
Yu Chi-song
21.57
81
New
National
Kim Jong-cheol [ko]
13.25
25
New
Civil Rights
Kim Eui-taek
6.72
2
New
New Politics
Kim Gapp-soo
4.18
2
New
Democratic Socialist
Ko Jeong-hoon
3.24
2
New
Democratic Farmer's
1.41
1
New
Peaceful People
0.89
1
New
Independents
–
10.70
11
−11
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Legislative 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%.
The election was held under the influence of Coup d'état of 1979 and 1980. Major opposition political figures like Kim Young-sam were barred from running. Kim Dae-jung was arrested on May 17, 1980, and was sentenced to death on a of "inciting rebellion". Even the Democratic Republican Party of the late president Park Chung-hee was forcibly dissolved, and major figures like Kim Jong-pil was barred from running.
The election, while ostensibly a multi-party election, is widely considered to have been a fraudulent one, with supposed "opposition" politicians being heavily vetted by the Agency for National Security Planning and the South Korean Army Security Command.
^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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