South Korean local elections, 2010

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June 2, 2010

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All 16 seats of Metropolitan Mayors and Governors
(All 3,991 seats of Provincial and Municipal leaders and Assemblies)

	First party	Second party

Leader	Chung Sye-kyun	Chung Mong-joon
Party	Democratic	Grand National
Last election	3 seats (1,080 seats)	12 seats (2,345 seats)
Seats won	7 (1,484)	6 (1,623)
Seat change	4 (404)	6 (722)

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Lee Hoi-chang
Party	Liberty Forward	Democratic Labor
Last election	- (-)	0 seats (81 seats)
Seats won	1 (172)	0 (142)
Seat change	1 (172)	- (61)

Left top: Results of metropolitan mayoral and gubernatorial elections
Right top: Results of municipal mayoral elections
Left bottom: Results of provincial legislative elections
Right top: Results of municipal legislative elections

GNP DEP LFP DLP CKP
NPP PFU PPP FU PPU Ind.

The 5th local elections were held in South Korea on 2 June 2010. The voter turnout reached 54.4%, the highest in 15 years.

The ruling GNP was able to win 4 out of 7 mayoral seats but suffer by massive landslide on the gubernatorial election winning only 2 out of 9 seats. On the other hand, DEP was able to capture 2 mayoral seats and swept 5 out of 9 gubernatorial seats. The LFP won Daejeon while two independent candidates won gubernatorial seats one in Gyeongsangnam-do and the other in Jeju-do.

Provincial Governor election turnout rates

Metropolitan Mayoral and Governor election map by party

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