2004 South Korean legislative election

2004 South Korean legislative election
15 April 2004
All 299 seats in the National Assembly
150 seats needed for a majority
Turnout60.63% (3.38pp; Const. votes)
60.63% (New; PR votes)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Chung Dong-young Park Geun-hye
Party Uri Grand National
Last election Did not exist 133 seats
Seats won 152 121
Seat change New 12
Constituency vote 8,145,824 8,083,609
 % and swing 41.99% (New) 37.90% (1.06pp)
Regional vote 8,145,824 7,613,660
 % and swing 38.27% (New) 35.77% (New)
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Kwon Young-ghil Cho Soon-hyung
Party Democratic Labor Millennium Democratic
Last election 0 seats 115 seats
Seats won 10 9
Seat change 10 106
Constituency vote 920,229 1,698,368
 % and swing 4.31% (3.13pp) 7.09% (28.78pp)
Regional vote 2,774,061 2,774,061
 % and swing 13.03% (New) 7.96% (New)
Speaker before election

Park Kwan-yong
Grand National

 Elected Speaker

Kim Won-ki
Uri

Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 15 April 2004. In the 17th election for the National Assembly, voters elected 299 members of the legislature. The newly formed Uri Party and other parties supporting President Roh Moo-hyun, who was impeached by the outgoing National Assembly, won a majority of seats. This was the first time a centre-left liberal party won a majority in the National Assembly since 1960.

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