The party’s Jeong Kap-deuk was defeated in an electoral district in Ulsan, an industrial city 414 kilometers southeast of Seoul, by the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Yoon Doo-hwan.

Main opposition GNP scores sweeping victory

South Korea’s governing Uri Party again faced a humiliating defeat in Wednesday’s National Assembly by-elections, six months after a crushing defeat in the April by-elections, with the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) taking all four seats up for grabs.

As a result of Wednesday’s elections, the governing Uri Party has 144 seats, followed by the GNP with 127 in the 299-member unicameral legislature. The remaining are shared between the Democratic Party (DP) with 11 seats, the DLP with nine seats, three seats by the United Liberal Democrats (ULD) and five independent lawmakers.

(Yonhap & Korea Times, October 27, 2005)