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About elections in South Korea
I'm Bartłomiej Paruzel, and I built ElectioMap to map national elections around the world. This is the South Korea hub on ElectioMap — it brings together the South Korea election I cover, with the official result, vote and turnout shares to two decimal places, and, where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, an interactive map you can explore region by region.
South Korea (the Republic of Korea) is a presidential republic in East Asia and one of Asia's most robust democracies, having transitioned from military authoritarian rule to free elections in 1987. The president is directly elected for a single five-year term and cannot be re-elected; the 300-seat unicameral National Assembly (Gukhoe) is elected every four years by a parallel mixed system combining single-member constituencies with proportional-representation seats. Politics is dominated by two large blocs: the liberal Democratic Party (Deobureo Minju Party) and the conservative People Power Party (PPP), with smaller forces such as the Rebuilding Korea Party, the Reform Party, the Progressive Party and the Justice Party. The 2020s were exceptionally turbulent: conservative Yoon Suk-yeol won the presidency in 2022, but his short-lived martial-law declaration in December 2024 triggered impeachment and removal, and the liberal Lee Jae-myung won the snap presidential election of 3 June 2025. Beyond national contests, South Korea holds nationwide local elections every four years to choose the mayors and governors of its 17 metropolitan cities and provinces, thousands of local councillors, and education superintendents — the most recent being the 9th local elections of 3 June 2026, a sweeping win for the governing Democratic Party. Elections are administered by the independent National Election Commission (NEC, nec.go.kr), whose preliminary and certified results are regarded as transparent and reliable. South Korea is a member of the OECD, the G20 and a major US treaty ally, and consistently ranks among the world's strongest democracies.
Each election listed here has its own page with the full breakdown by party or candidate and an interactive map of the result.
Every figure on ElectioMap is taken from the official electoral authority for South Korea — the national election commission or equivalent body that certifies the count. I enter vote and turnout percentages exactly as published, to two decimal places and without rounding, and show seat totals wherever a chamber is being filled. When ElectioMap covers an election live, the page updates automatically as official figures are released. For the full sourcing and update policy, see Data & Methodology and the Editorial Policy.
The most recent South Korea election covered on ElectioMap is the Local Election 2026, held Jun 3, 2026. Its page has the full result with vote shares and, where official regional data is published, a map by region.
All South Korea figures come from the official electoral authority that certifies the count, entered exactly as published to two decimal places. See the Data & Methodology page for the full sourcing and update policy.
Where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, the South Korea election page includes an interactive map — click a region to see how each party or candidate performed there. Where no official per-region data exists, the page shows the certified national result and says so.