November 26, 1963 (Tue.) The 6th National Assembly Elections

The 6th election of the National Assembly members was held just a month after the 5th presidential election. In this election, for the first time in the constitutional history of the ROK, the proportional representation system was introduced according to the “Election of National Assembly Members Act” announced on January 16, 1963. In this election, 131 lawmakers were elected from the local constituency and 44 from the national constituency.
Just the same as the presidential election, political party nomination for candidate registration was mandated in this election. For the national constituency, a party submitted a list of its numbered candidates for each constituency. In this case, the number of nominees submitted by each party was not to exceed that of the allocated members to the National Assembly to each constituency. People identified as unqualified under the Hatch Act were not able to be registered as candidate. If a candidate lost the eligibility to run for election or the candidate’s political party was dissolved or the candidate joined another party, the candidate registration would have been canceled. The issuance system of the copy of voter list introduced to the 4th election was nullified and a polling station was banned in barracks.
As a result of the election, the Democratic Republican Party won 110 seats (88 and 22 each for the local and national constituency), accounting for 62.8%. The political parties that won seats were five including the Democratic Justice Party (27 and 14 for each constituency among 41), Democratic Party (8 and 5 for each constituency among 13), Liberal Democratic Party (6 and 3 for each constituency among 9), and People’s Party (2 for the local constituency) in addition to the Democratic Republican Party. The other seven parties failed to win a single seat.