South Korean legislative election, 2016

South Korean legislative election, 2016

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All 300 seats of the National Assembly of South Korea 151 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	58.0%
First party Second party   Leader Kim Chong-in Kim Moo-sung Party Minjoo Saenuri Leader since 27 January 2016 14 July 2014 Leader's seat Proportional representation Busan Jung–Yeongdo Last election 127 seats, 36.5% (as DUP) 152 seats, 42.8% (LFP: 5 seats, 3.2%) Seats before 102 146 Seats won 123 122 Seat change 21 24 Popular vote 6,069,744 7,960,272 Percentage 25.5% (PR) 33.5% (PR) Swing 11.0% 12.5%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Ahn Cheol-soo (pictured) Chun Jung-bae Sim Sang-jung Party People's Justice Leader since 2 February 2016 18 July 2015 Leader's seat Seoul Nowon C Gwangju Seo B Gyeonggi Goyang A Last election New party 13 seats, 10.3% (as UPP) Seats before 20 5 Seats won 38 6 Seat change 18 1 Popular vote 6,355,572 1,719,891 Percentage 26.7% (PR) 7.2% (PR) Swing New party 3.1%
Popular vote totals given are direct votes for the parties' national lists.
Speaker before election Chung Ui-hwa Saenuri Elected Speaker Chung Sye-kyun Minjoo

Chung Ui-hwa
Saenuri

Chung Sye-kyun
Minjoo

South Korea's 20th legislative elections were held on 13 April 2016. All 300 members of the National Assembly were elected, 253 from first-past-the-post constituencies and 47 from proportional party lists. The election was an upset victory for the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea, which defied opinion polling by winning a plurality of seats in the election and defeating the ruling conservative Saenuri Party by one seat. In votes for party lists, however, the Minjoo Party came third, behind the Saenuri Party in first place and the new People's Party in second.

The election marked an upheaval in the South Korean party system, installing a hung parliament for the first time since 2000 and a three-party system for the first time since 1996. The People's Party attained a kingmaker position in the new Assembly, while the leadership of the Saenuri Party including chairman Kim Moo-sung resigned en masse following their defeat, relinquishing control of the party to an emergency response commission.

The 2016 legislative election was the first to be held in South Korea following the formation of the People's Party and the enforcement of controversial Constitutional Court rulings dissolving the left-wing Unified Progressive Party and mandating the redistricting of the Assembly's constituencies.

In the 2012 legislative election, the ruling conservative Saenuri Party won a slim majority of 152 seats out of 300. The party also retained control of the presidency, as Saenuri candidate Park Geun-hye won the presidential election that year. By the time of the 2016 legislative election, the Saenuri delegation had fallen to 146 out of 292 filled Assembly seats, exactly 50%. The 2016 election was seen as an important stepping stone to the next presidential election, which will be held in December 2017.

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