2003 North Korean parliamentary election

2003 North Korean parliamentary election

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All 687 seats in the Supreme People's Assembly
  First party
 
Leader Kim Jong-il
Party Fatherland Front
Seats won 687

NDC Chairman before election

Kim Jong-il
Workers' Party

Elected NDC Chairman

Kim Jong-il
Workers' Party

Parliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 3 August 2003. Representatives were elected for five-year terms to all 687 seats of the Supreme People's Assembly, and also to 26,650 positions in city, county, and provincial People's Assemblies.[1] All candidates were members of the three parties constituting the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland.

Most polling booths featured posters saying: "Let's participate in the voting for deputies to the People's Assembly and give our support to them!".[2]

There was a 99.9% turnout for the election with each candidate receiving 100% of the vote unopposed.[3]

In its first session, on 3 September, the newly elected parliament re-elected Kim Jong-il as the Chairman of the National Defence Commission.[2]

  1. ^ "DPRK Holds Election of Local and National Assemblies". People's Korea. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  2. ^ a b "IPU PARLINE database: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (Choe Go In Min Hoe Ui), Elections in 2003". IPU. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  3. ^ "N Korea holds parliamentary poll". BBC. 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-03-08.

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