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(Top) 1 Reasons for by-elections 2 Results 2.1 Seat control 2.2 Changwon Seongsan 2.3 Tongyeong-Goseong 3 References

2019 South Korean by-elections

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The 2019 South Korean by-elections was held in South Korea on 3 April 2019. 2 seats to the National Assembly of South Korea were contested.^[1]^[2]

Reasons for by-elections[edit]

The following Members of National Assembly lost or resigned from their seats:

South Gyeongsang Changwon Seongsan District: Roh Hoe-chan (Justice), due to Roh's death.
South Gyeongsang Tongyeong-Goseong District: Lee Gun-hyeon (Liberty Korea), due to Lee's violation of the Political Funds Act.^[3]

Results[edit]

Seat control[edit]

Seat	Previous member	Party		Elected member	Party
Changwon Seongsan	Roh Hoe-chan		Justice	Yeo Yeong-gug		Justice
Tongyeong-Goseong	Lee Gun-hyeon		Liberty Korea	Jeong Jeom-sik		Liberty Korea

Changwon Seongsan[edit]


Candidate		Party	Votes	%	+/–
	Yeo Yeong-gug	Justice Party	42,663	45.76	–3.75
	Kang Gi-yun	Liberty Korea Party	42,159	45.22	+5.00
	Son Seok-hyung	Minjung Party	3,540	3.80	New
	Lee Jae-hwan	Bareunmirae Party	3,334	3.58	–4.71
	Jin Soon-jung	Korean Patriots' Party	838	0.90	New
	Kim Jong-seo	Independent	706	0.76	New
Total			93,240	100.00	–

Valid votes			93,240	99.07
Invalid/blank votes			873	0.93
Total votes			94,113	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			183,934	51.17	–14.64
	Justice Party hold

Tongyeong-Goseong[edit]


Candidate		Party	Votes	%	+/–
	Jeong Jeom-sik	Liberty Korea Party	47,082	59.48	–40.53
	Yang Moon-seok	Democratic Party of Korea	28,490	35.99	+35.99
	Park Chung-jung	Korean Patriots' Party	3,588	4.53	New
Total			79,160	100.00	–

Valid votes			79,160	99.31
Invalid/blank votes			551	0.69
Total votes			79,711	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			155,741	51.18
	Liberty Korea Party hold

References[edit]

^ "[6·13 선거] 다음 승부는 내년 4·3 재보선…최다10석 예상". Naver. Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 24 October 2018.

^ "보선 D-1…지지층 결집 사활건 창원성산 후보들 "한표라도 더"". Yonhap (in Korean). 2 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

^ "'불법 정치자금' 한국당 이군현 집유 확정···의원직 상실". Kyunghyang Shinmun. Retrieved 27 December 2018.

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