Progressivism in South Korea

Timeline of all mainstream political parties

Progressivism in South Korea is a broadly associated with Socialism, Social democracy and Democratic socialism.

Major Progressive parties election results of South Korea

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Party Name
1952	Cho Pong-am	797,504	11.4%	Defeated N	Progressive Party
1956	Cho Pong-am	2,163,808	30.0%	Defeated N	Progressive Party
1987	Baik Ki-wan	Quit midway through			Independent
1992	Baik Ki-wan	238,648	1.0%	Defeated N	Independent
1997	Kwon Young-ghil	306,026	1.2%	Defeated N	People's Victory 21
2002	Kwon Young-ghil	957,148	3.9%	Defeated N	Democratic Labor Party
2007	Kwon Young-ghil	712,121	3.0%	Defeated N	Democratic Labor Party
	Geum Min	18,223	0.07%	Defeated N	Korea Socialist Party
2012	Lee Jung-hee	Quit midway through			Unified Progressive Party
	Kim So-yeon	16,687	0.05%	Defeated N	Independent
	Kim Soon-ja	46,017	0.15%	Defeated N	Independent

Legislative elections

Election	Total seats	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Election leader	Party Name
1950	2 / 210	89,413	1.3%	new 2 seats; Minority	Socialist Party	Jo So-ang
1960	4 / 233	541,021	6.0%	new 4 seats; Minority	Social Mass Party	Seo Sang-il
	1 / 233	57,965	0.6%	new 1 seats; Minority	Korea Socialist Party	Jeon Jin-han
1967	1 / 175	249,561	2.3%	new 1 seats; Minority	Mass Party	Seo Min-ho
	0 / 175	104,975	1.0%	new 0 seats; Minority	Unified Socialist Party	Kim Cheol
1971	0 / 204	59,359	0.5%	1 seats; Minority	Mass Party	Ri Mong
	0 / 204	97,398	0.9%	0 seats; Minority	Unified Socialist Party	Kim Cheol
1981	2 / 276	524,361	3.2%	new 2 seats; Minority	Democratic Socialist Party	Ko Chong-hun
	0 / 276	122,778	0.7%	new 0 seats; Minority	Socialist Party	Kim Cheol
1985	1 / 276	288,863	1.4%	new 1 seats; Minority	New Politics Socialist Party	Ko Chong-hun
1988	0 / 299	65,650	0.3%	new 0 seats; Minority	Party of the people	Jeong Tae-yun
	1 / 299	251,236	1.3%	new 0 seats; Minority	Hangyore Democratic Party	Ye Chun-ho
1992	0 / 229	319,041	1.5%	new 0 seats; Minority	People's Party	Lee U-jae
2000	0 / 273	223,261	1.2%	new 0 seats; Minority	Democratic Labor Party	Kwon Young-ghil
	0 / 273	125,082	0.7%	new 0 seats; Minority	Youth Progressive Party	Choi Hyeok
2004	10 / 299	2,774,061	13.0%	10 seats; Minority	Democratic Labor Party	Kwon Young-ghil
	0 / 299	47,311	0.22%	0 seats; Minority	Socialist Party	Won Yong-su
2008	5 / 299	973,445	5.68%	5 seats; Minority	Democratic Labor Party	Cheon Yeong-se
	0 / 299	504,466	2.94%	new 0 seats; Minority	New Progressive Party	Roh Hoe-chan Sim Sang-jung
	0 / 299	35,496	0.20%	0 seats; Minority	Korea Socialist Party	Choi Gwang-Eun
2012	13 / 300	2,198,405	10.3%	new 13 seats; Minority	Unified Progressive Party	Lee Jung-hee
	0 / 300	243,065	1.13%	0 seats; Minority	New Progressive Party	Hong Sehwa An Hyo-sang
2016	0 / 300	91,705	0.38%	0 seats; Minority	Labor Party	Koo Kyo-hyun
	6 / 300	1,719,891	7.23%	new 6 seats; Minority	Justice Party	Sim Sang-jung

Local elections

Election	Metropolitan Self-government	Metropolitan Council	Local Self-government	Local Council	Party Name
3rd (2002)	0 / 16	11 / 682	2 / 232	N/A	Democratic Labor Party
4th (2006)	0 / 16	15 / 733	0 / 230	66 / 2,888	Democratic Labor Party
5th (2010)	0 / 16	24 / 761	3 / 228	115 / 2,888	Democratic Labor Party
	0 / 16	3 / 761	0 / 228	22 / 2,888	New Progressive Party
6th (2014)	0 / 17	3 / 789	0 / 226	34 / 2,898	Unified Progressive Party
	0 / 17	1 / 789	0 / 226	6 / 2,898	Labor Party
	0 / 17	0 / 789	0 / 226	11 / 2,898	Justice Party

See also

• List of political parties in South Korea
• Juchesasangpa