1981 South Korean legislative election

1981 South Korean legislative election

25 March 1981
Turnout	77.74% ( 0.66pp)
Party Leader % Seats ± Democratic Justice 35.64 151 Democratic Korea 21.57 81 Korean National Party 13.25 25 Civil Rights Party (South Korea) 6.72 2 New Politics 4.18 2 Democratic Socialist Party (South Korea) 3.24 2 Democratic Farmer's 1.41 1 Peaceful People 0.89 1 Independents 10.70 11
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker before Speaker after Dissolution of parliament Jung Rae Hyuk Democratic Justice

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 25 March 1981.

The new electoral system for the National Assembly implemented a system of proportional representation, while abolishing the president's power to appoint one-third of the chamber's members. The result was a victory for the Democratic Justice Party, which won 151 of the 276 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 77.7%.

The election was held under the influence of Coup d'état of 1979 and 1980. Major opposition political figures like Kim Young-sam were barred from running. Kim Dae-jung was arrested on May 17, 1980, and was sentenced to death on a of "inciting rebellion". Even the Democratic Republican Party of the late president Park Chung-hee was forcibly dissolved, and major figures like Kim Jong-pil was barred from running.

The election, while ostensibly a multi-party election, is widely considered to have been a fraudulent one, with supposed "opposition" politicians being heavily vetted by the Agency for National Security Planning and the South Korean Army Security Command.

Results

By city/province

Region	Total seats	Seats won
		DJP	DKP	KNP	CRP	NPP	DSP	DFP	PPP	Ind.
Seoul	28	14	11	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
Busan	12	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Gyeonggi	24	12	10	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Gangwon	12	6	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Chungcheong	8	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1
South Chungcheong	16	8	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
North Jeolla	14	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Jeolla	22	10	9	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
North Gyeongsang	26	13	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	3
South Gyeongsang	20	10	5	3	1	0	1	1	0	3
Jeju	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Constituency total	184	90	57	18	2	2	2	1	1	11
PR list	92	61	24	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	276	151	81	25	2	2	2	1	1	11