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1950 South Korean legislative election
South Korea
← 1948 30 May 1950 1954 →
All 210 seats in the House of Representatives
106 seats needed for a majority
Turnout91.91%
Party Leader Vote % Seats
Democratic Nationalist Sin Ik-hui
Kim Seong-su 		9.79 24
Nationalist Yun Chi-young 9.69 24
National Association Syngman Rhee 6.77 14
Korea Youth 3.26 10
Federation of Trade Unions 1.69 10
Socialist 1.28 2
Ilmin Club 1.02 3
National Independence 0.48 1
Other parties – 2.18 3
Independents – 62.93 126
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency
Speaker before Speaker after
Shin Ik-hee
National Association		 Shin Ik-hee
National Association
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Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 30 May 1950. The elections resulted in a tie between the Democratic Nationalist Party and the Korea Nationalist Party, which both won 24 seats,although a majority of the 210 seats were won by independents. Voter turnout was 92%.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Democratic Nationalist Party683,9109.7924
Korea Nationalist Party677,1739.6924
National Association473,1536.7714
Korea Youth Party227,5393.2610
Korean Federation of Trade Unions117,9391.693
Socialist Party89,4131.282
Ilmin Club71,2391.023
Korea Independence Workers Party45,8130.660
National Independence Federation33,4640.481
Korea Independence Party17,7450.250
Other parties152,3652.183
Independents4,397,28762.93126
Total6,987,040100.00210
Valid votes6,987,04090.13
Invalid/blank votes765,0369.87
Total votes7,752,076100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,434,73791.91
Source: Nohlen et al.

By city/province

Region Total
seats 		Seats won
DNP KNP NP YP FTU SP IC NIF Other Ind.
Seoul 16 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 7
Gyeonggi 30 4 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 20
Gangwon 12 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6
North Chungcheong 12 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
South Chungcheong 19 1 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 11
North Jeolla 22 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 15
South Jeolla 30 9 2 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 13
North Gyeongsang 34 2 3 1 4 0 0 1 0 1 22
South Gyeongsang 32 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 26
Jeju 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Total 210 28 19 13 9 3 2 3 1 3 129
Source: National Election Commission

See also

References

  1. 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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