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2018 South Korean local elections

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All 17 metropolitan mayors and governors (All 3,977 seats of provincial and municipal leaders and councillors)
Turnout	60.2% 3.4 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Choo Mi-ae Hong Jun-pyo Cho Bae-sook Party Democratic Liberty Korea Democracy and Peace Regional offices 8 governors 6 met. mayors 1 governors 1 met. mayors 0 Regional offices +/– 3 governors 2 met. mayors 2 governors 3 met. mayors New party Mayors 151 53 5 Mayors +/– 71 64 New party Councillors 652 (P) 1,638 (M) 137 (P) 1009 (M) 3 (P) 49 (M) Councillors +/– 303 (P) 481 (M) 279 (P) 404 (M) New party   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Lee Jeong-mi Yoo Seung-min (pictured) Park Joo-sun Party Justice Bareunmirae Regional offices 0 0 Regional offices +/– 0 New party Mayors 0 0 Mayors +/– 0 New party Councillors 11 (P) 26 (M) 5 (P) 21 (M) Councillors +/– 11 (P) 15 (M) New party
Gubernatorial & metropolitan mayoral elections: overall results and turnouts Gubernatorial & metropolitan mayoral elections: municipal-level breakdown

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The 7th local elections were held in South Korea on 13 June 2018. The election coincided with the by-elections for the vacant seats in the National Assembly. The election was a landslide victory for the Democratic Party of Korea, the ruling party, after two successful summits with the third inter-Korean summit on 27 April and the first North Korea-United States summit in Singapore on 12 June.

Metropolitan mayors and governors

A total of 17 metropolitan mayors and governors were elected.

Candidates

Bold indicates that a candidate won as metropolitan mayor or governor.

Results summary

Bold indicates an incumbent who was re-elected.

Seoul

Incheon

Gyeonggi

Gangwon

Daejeon

Sejong

South Chungcheong

North Chungcheong

Gwangju

South Jeolla

North Jeolla

Busan

Ulsan

South Gyeongsang

Daegu

North Gyeongsang

Jeju

Metropolitan and provincial councillors

A total of 824 metropolitan and provincial councillors were elected.

Municipal mayors

A total of 226 municipal mayors (municipal city, county, autonomous district) were elected.

Municipal councillors

A total of 2,926 municipal councillors (municipal city, county, autonomous district) were elected.

See also

• 2018 South Korean by-elections

External links

• National Election Commission Archived 2020-03-26 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. "<막 오른 지방선거 레이스>재보선 10곳 이상 내년 지방선거는 거물급'미니총선'". Munhwa Ilbo. Naver. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
2. Jung, Kwangho; Kang, Youngju (2020). "A report of the 2018 regional election in South Korea". Regional & Federal Studies. 30 (3): 493–509. doi:10.1080/13597566.2020.1761341. ISSN 1359-7566. S2CID 219447359.

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