1948 South Korean Constitutional Assembly election

1948 South Korean Constitutional Assembly election
South Korea
← 1946 10 May 1948 1950 →
All 200 seats in the Constituent National Assembly
101 seats needed for a majority
Turnout95.50%
Party Leader Vote % Seats
National Association Syngman Rhee 25.87 55
Korea Democratic Kim Seong-su 13.51 29
Korea Youth Ji Cheong-cheon 9.66 12
National Youth Lee Beom-seok 2.23 6
Taehan Labour Federation 1.57 1
Farmers Federation 0.77 2
Other parties – 5.92 10
Independents – 40.47 85
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency
Speaker before Speaker after
None Rhee Syng-man
National Association
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Constitutional Assembly elections were held in South Korea on 10 May 1948. They were held under the U.S. military occupation, with supervision from the United Nations, and resulted in a victory for the National Association for the Rapid Realisation of Korean Independence, which won 55 of the 200 seats, although 85 were held by independents. Voter turnout was 95%.[1]

The elections were the first time in Korean history that the citizens were allowed to vote for a national legislative body.[2] The Korean peninsula had been under Japanese colonial rule for thirty-five years (1910–1945), and for hundreds of years before that, it had been governed by the (Yi Dynasty) Korean royal family and scholarly officials.

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p428 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference KPIT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).