| Country: | South Korea |
| Flag Year: | 1997 |
| Type: | legislative |
| Previous Election: | 1996 South Korean legislative election |
| Previous Year: | 1996 |
| Next Election: | 2004 South Korean legislative election |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
| Turnout: | 57.22% (6.69pp) |
| Seats For Election: | All 273 seats in the National Assembly |
| Outgoing Members: | Outgoing members |
| Elected Mps: | Incoming members |
| Majority Seats: | 137 |
| Election Date: | 13 April 2000 |
| Image1: | Lee Hoi-chang (2010).jpg |
| Leader1: | Lee Hoi-chang |
| Party1: | Grand National Party |
| Last Election1: | 140 seats |
| Seats1: | 133 |
| Seat Change1: | 7 |
| Popular Vote1: | 7,365,359 |
| Percentage1: | 38.96% |
| Swing1: | 6.79pp |
| Leader2: | Kim Dae-jung |
| Party2: | Millennium Democratic Party |
| Alliance2: | Alliance of DJP |
| Last Election2: | 79 seats |
| Seats2: | 115 |
| Seat Change2: | 36 |
| Popular Vote2: | 6,780,625 |
| Percentage2: | 35.87% |
| Swing2: | 10.57pp |
| Image3: | Kim Jong-pil 1999.png |
| Leader3: | Kim Jong-pil |
| Party3: | United Liberal Democrats |
| Alliance3: | Alliance of DJP |
| Last Election3: | 50 seats |
| Seats3: | 17 |
| Seat Change3: | 33 |
| Popular Vote3: | 1,859,331 |
| Percentage3: | 9.84% |
| Swing3: | 6.33pp |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Speaker | |
| Before Party: | United Liberal Democrats |
| After Party: | Millennium Democratic Party |
Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 13 April 2000.[1]
Opinion polls suggested that the ruling Democratic Party would win the most seats, but the result was a victory for the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), which won 133 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly. The United Liberal Democrats (ULD) lost two-thirds of their seats due to GNP's victory in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gangwon-do (South Korea), and also fewer local votes in Chungcheong.
With no party winning a majority, the 16th parliament was the first hung parliament in South Korean history.[2]
The Democrats, ULD and Democratic People's Party (DPP) formed a coalition to gain a majority. However, the ULD withdrew support in 2001 and joined the conservative opposition. Seven ULD members subsequently defected from the party and joined the GNP, giving it a majority.
Of the 273 seats, 227 were elected in single-member districts via first-past-the-post voting, while the remainder were allocated via proportional representation at the national level. Proportional seats were only available to parties which won three percent of the national valid vote among seat-allocated parties and/or won five or more constituency seats.
See also: List of political parties in South Korea.
| Parties | Leader | Ideology | Seats | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last election | Before election | |||||
| Grand National Party | Kim Young-sam | Conservatism | rowspan="2" | |||
| Millennium Democratic Party | Cho Soon-hyung | Liberalism | ||||
| United Liberal Democrats | Kim Jong-pil | Conservatism | ||||
| Democratic People's Party | Cho Soon | Did not exist | ||||
| New Korea Party of Hope | Kim Yong-hwan Heo Hwa-pyeong | |||||
| Region | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNP | MDP | ULD | DPP | NKPH | Ind. | |||
| Seoul | 45 | 17 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Busan | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Daegu | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Incheon | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gwangju | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Daejeon | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ulsan | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gyeonggi | 41 | 18 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gangwon | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Chungcheong | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Chungcheong | 11 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| North Jeolla | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| South Jeolla | 13 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| North Gyeongsang | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Gyeongsang | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jeju | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Constituency total | 227 | 112 | 96 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| PR list | 46 | 21 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 299 | 133 | 115 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |