1963 South Korean legislative election

1963 South Korean legislative election
South Korea
← 1960 26 November 1963 1967 →

All 175 seats in the National Assembly
88 seats needed for a majority
Turnout72.11% (Decrease 12.24pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Democratic Republican Park Chung Hee 33.48 110 New
Civil Rule Yun Posun 20.12 41 New
Democratic Park Soon-cheon 13.60 13 −162
People's Kim Byeong-ro 8.84 2 New
Liberal Democratic Kim Jun-yeon 8.09 9 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency
Speaker before Speaker after
None None

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 November 1963.[1] They were the first held after the 1961 coup and subsequent approval of a new constitution the previous December, which inaugurated the Third Republic. All candidates had to run under the banner of a political party.

The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party of coup leader Park Chung Hee, which won 110 of the 175 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 72.1%.

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