2018 South Korean local elections

2018 South Korean local elections
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All 17 metropolitan mayors and governors
(All 3,977 seats of provincial and municipal leaders and councillors)
Turnout60.2% Increase 3.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Choo Mi-ae Hong Jun-pyo Cho Bae-sook
Party Democratic Liberty Korea Democracy and Peace
Regional
offices 		8 governors
6 met. mayors 		1 governors
1 met. mayors 		0
Regional
offices +/– 		Increase 3 governors
Increase 2 met. mayors 		Decrease 2 governors
Decrease 3 met. mayors 		New party
Mayors 151 53 5
Mayors +/– Increase 71 Decrease 64 New party
Councillors 652 (P)
1,638 (M) 		137 (P)
1009 (M) 		3 (P)
49 (M)
Councillors +/– Increase 303 (P)
Increase 481 (M) 		Decrease 279 (P)
Decrease 404 (M) 		New party
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Lee Jeong-mi Yoo Seung-min (pictured)
Park Joo-sun
Party Justice Bareunmirae
Regional
offices 		0 0
Regional
offices +/– 		Steady 0 New party
Mayors 0 0
Mayors +/– Steady 0 New party
Councillors 11 (P)
26 (M) 		5 (P)
21 (M)
Councillors +/– Increase 11 (P)
Increase 15 (M) 		New party
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The 7th local elections were held in South Korea on 13 June 2018. The election coincided with the by-elections for the vacant seats in the National Assembly.[1] The election was a landslide victory for the Democratic Party of Korea, the ruling party, after two successful summits with the third inter-Korean summit on 27 April and the first North Korea-United States summit in Singapore on 12 June.[2]

  1. ^ "<막 오른 지방선거 레이스>재보선 10곳 이상 내년 지방선거는 거물급'미니총선'". Munhwa Ilbo. Naver. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
  2. ^ Jung, Kwangho; Kang, Youngju (2020). "A report of the 2018 regional election in South Korea". Regional & Federal Studies. 30 (3): 493–509. doi:10.1080/13597566.2020.1761341. ISSN 1359-7566. S2CID 219447359.