1973 South Korean legislative election


Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 27 February 1973.
The result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Republican Party, which won 73 of the 146 elected seats in the National Assembly. With one-thirds of seats appointed by President Park Chung-hee, the ruling party had a supermajority. Voter turnout was 72.9%.
The election reconstituted the National Assembly after Park had dissolved it in the October Restoration self-coup four months earlier and pushed through a constitutional referendum which removed presidential term limits and gave him the power to appoint one-third of the National Assembly. The opposition New Democratic Party had also split in 1972 over a leadership dispute between the Yu Chin-san faction and an opposing faction led by Kim Dae-jung and Kim Hong-il. One month before the election, the latter formed the. However, the DUP performed poorly and split the opposition vote, and in the aftermath the members expressed regret for their decision to run.

Results