The Sejong City Council, officially the Sejong Special Self-Governing City Council (Korean: 세종특별자치시의회; Hanja: 世宗特別自治市議會) is the local council of Sejong City, South Korea.[1]
Sejong Special Self-Governing City Council 세종특별자치시의회 | |
|---|---|
| 4th Sejong Special Self-Governing City Council | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Founded | 1 July 2012 |
| Leadership | |
Chairman | Sang Byeong-heon, Democratic |
Vice Chairman | Park Ran-hee, Democratic |
Vice Chairman | Kim Hak-seo, People Power Party |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 20 |
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Political groups |
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Length of term | 4 years |
| Elections | |
Parallel voting
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Last election | 1 June 2022 |
| Website | |
| Sejong City Council (Korean) Sejong City Council (English) | |
| Sejong City Council | |
| Hangul | 세종특별자치시의회 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 世宗特別自治市議會 |
| Revised Romanization | Sejong Teukbyeol Jachisi Uihoe |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sechong T’ŭkpyŏl Chach’isi Ŭihoe |
There are a total of 18 members, with 16 members elected in the First-past-the-post voting system and 2 members elected in Party-list proportional representation.
Current composition edit
| Political party | Seats | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic | 13 | |
| People Power | 7 | |
| Total | 20 | |
Organization edit
The structure of Council consists of:
- Chairman
- Two Vice-chairmen
- Standing Committees
- Steering Committee of Council
- Administration and Welfare Committee
- Industry and Construction Committee
- Education Committee
- Special Committees
- Special Committees on Budget and Accounts
- Special Committees on Ethics
Recent election results edit
2018 edit
| Party | Constituency | Party list | Total seats | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | ± | Votes | % | Seats | ± | Seats | ± | |||
| Democratic Party of Korea | 85,299 | 62.97 | 16 |  8
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79,752 | 59.01 | 1 |  0
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17 | 8
| ||
| Liberty Korea Party | 22,513 | 16.62 | 0 |  4
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23,567 | 17.43 | 1 | 0
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1 | 4
| ||
| Justice Party | — | 17,369 | 12.85 | 0 | new | 0 | new | |||||
| Bareunmirae Party | 18,224 | 13.45 | 0 | new | 14,455 | 10.69 | 0 | new | 0 | new | ||
| Independents | 9,433 | 6.96 | 0 | 1
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— | 0 | 1
| |||||
| Total | 135,469 | 100.00 | 16 | – | 135,143 | 100.00 | 2 | – | 18 | – | ||
References edit
- ^ "제3대 세종시의회 개원식… 파사현정(破邪顯正) 의정활동 다짐". 충청뉴스. 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
- ^ "중앙선거관리위원회 선거통계시스템". National Election Commission.