1971 South Korean presidential election

1971 South Korean presidential election

← 1967 27 April 1971 1972 →

Nominee Park Chung-hee Kim Dae-jung Party Democratic Republican New Democratic Popular vote 6,342,828 5,395,900 Percentage 53.20% 45.26%

Results by municipal-level division Results by provincial-level division

President before election Park Chung-hee Democratic Republican Elected President Park Chung-hee Democratic Republican

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 27 April 1971.^[1] The result was a victory for incumbent president Park Chung-hee, who received 53% of the vote. Voter turnout was 80%.^[2] Within a year of his re-election, Park declared martial law and introduced the Yushin Constitution, which vested him with sweeping and near-dictatorial powers.

These would be the last contested presidential elections in South Korea until 1981, the last direct presidential election until 1987, and last presidential election in which the victor received an absolute majority of the popular vote until Park's daughter, Park Geun-hye, did so in 2012.