1971 South Korean presidential election

1971 South Korean presidential election

← 1967 27 April 1971 1972 →
 
Nominee Park Chung-hee Kim Dae-jung
Party Democratic Republican New Democratic
Popular vote 6,342,828 5,395,900
Percentage 53.20% 45.26%

Leading candidate by province

President before election

Park Chung-hee
Democratic Republican

Elected President

Park Chung-hee
Democratic Republican

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 27 April 1971.[1] The result was a victory for incumbent president Park Chung-hee, who won 53.2% of the vote. Voter turnout was 79.8%.[2] Within a year of his re-election, Park declared martial law and introduced the Yushin Constitution, which vested him with sweeping and near-dictatorial powers.

These would be the last contested presidential elections in South Korea until 1981, and the last direct presidential elections until 1987.

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p420 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
  2. ^ Nohlen et al., p465