Country: | South Korea |
Flag Year: | 1949 |
Previous Election: | 1954 |
Election Date: | 2 May 1958 |
Next Election: | 1960 |
Turnout: | 87.80% (3.34pp) |
Seats For Election: | All 233 seats in the House of Representatives |
Majority Seats: | 117 |
Party1: | Liberal Party (South Korea) |
Leader1: | Syngman Rhee |
Percentage1: | 42.07 |
Last Election1: | 114 |
Seats1: | 126 |
Party2: | Democratic Party (South Korea, 1955) |
Leader2: | Chough Pyung-ok |
Percentage2: | 33.99 |
Last Election2: | 15 |
Seats2: | 79 |
Party3: | Unification Party (South Korea) |
Percentage3: | 0.63 |
Last Election3: | new |
Seats3: | 1 |
Party4: | Independents |
Leader4: | – |
Percentage4: | 21.67 |
Last Election4: | 68 |
Seats4: | 27 |
Map: | Republic_of_Korea_legislative_election_1958_districts_result.png |
Speaker | |
Before Party: | Liberal Party (South Korea) |
After Election: | Lee Ki-poong |
After Party: | Liberal Party (South Korea) |
Legislative elections were held in South Korea on Friday 2 May 1958.[1] The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 126 of the 233 seats. Voter turnout was 87.8%.
The elections were held under first-past-the-post voting.
Region | Total seats | Seats won | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LP | DP | UP | Ind. | |||
Seoul | 16 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | |
Gyeonggi | 25 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 3 | |
Gangwon | 20 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
North Chungcheong | 13 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
South Chungcheong | 22 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
North Jeolla | 24 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 3 | |
South Jeolla | 32 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 3 | |
North Gyeongsang | 38 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 6 | |
South Gyeongsang | 40 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 5 | |
Jeju | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Total | 233 | 126 | 79 | 1 | 27 |