2018 South Korean local elections

2018 South Korean local elections

13 June 2018

All 17 metropolitan mayors and governors
(All 3,977 seats of provincial and municipal leaders and councillors)
Turnout60.2% 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

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.