1963 South Korean legislative election

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 November 1963. 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.

1963 South Korean legislative election

26 November 1963
All 175 seats in the National Assembly 88 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	72.11% ( 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

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%.

Electoral system

The unicameral National Assembly was elected by parallel voting, with 131 legislators elected in single-member constituencies and 44 allocated via a modified formula on the national level, excluding parties that did not win more than three seats or more than 5% of the valid vote. If the percentage of votes for the first-placed party was over 50%, the national seats would be allocated in proportion to vote share, with the first-placed party being limited to two-thirds of the available national seats (it would then be eliminated from further consideration for national seats). When the number of votes of the top party was less than 50%, half of the seats in the national constituency were automatically allocated to the first-placed party (which was then eliminated from further consideration for national seats), and the process repeated for the remaining parties (meaning the second place party would now be considered the "top party" for purposes of the next allocation) until all remaining seats were allocated.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				FPTP	PR	Total	+/–
	Democratic Republican Party	3,112,985	33.48	88	22	110	New
	Civil Rule Party	1,870,976	20.12	27	14	41	New
	Democratic Party	1,264,285	13.60	8	5	13	–162
	People's Party	822,000	8.84	2	0	2	New
	Liberal Democratic Party	752,026	8.09	6	3	9	New
	Conservative Party	278,477	2.99	0	0	0	New
	Liberal Party	271,820	2.92	0	0	0	–2
	Righteous Citizens Party	259,960	2.80	0	0	0	New
	New Development Party	189,077	2.03	0	0	0	New
	Autumn Wind Association	183,938	1.98	0	0	0	New
	New People's Association	165,124	1.78	0	0	0	New
	Korea Independence Party	128,162	1.38	0	0	0	0
Total		9,298,830	100.00	131	44	175	–58
Valid votes		9,298,830	96.64
Invalid/blank votes		323,353	3.36
Total votes		9,622,183	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		13,344,149	72.11
Source: Nohlen et al.

By city/province

Region	Total seats	Seats won
		DRP	CR	DP	LDP	PP
Seoul	14	2	7	4	1	0
Busan	7	6	1	0	0	0
Gyeonggi	13	7	5	1	0	0
Gangwon	9	7	0	1	1	0
North Chungcheong	8	6	1	0	1	0
South Chungcheong	13	8	3	0	0	2
North Jeolla	11	7	4	0	0	0
South Jeolla	19	12	3	1	3	0
North Gyeongsang	20	19	1	0	0	0
South Gyeongsang	15	12	2	1	0	0
Jeju	2	2	0	0	0	0
Constituency total	131	88	27	8	6	2
PR list	44	22	14	5	3	0
Total	175	110	41	13	9	2