Dalseong (

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: 달성군) is a constituency of the

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. The constituency consists of

Dalseong County Dalseong County (Dalseong-gun) is a ''gun'' occupying much of south and western Daegu, South Korea. A largely rural district lying along the Nakdong River, it makes up nearly half of Daegu's total area. It is divided in half by a narrow piece o ...

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

. As of 2024, 214,642 eligible voters were registered in the constituency. The constituency was created in 1996 from the Dalseong–Goryeong constituency.

History

Dalseong, like all other constituencies located in the Daegu–Gyeongbuk region is widely considered a stronghold for the conservative People Power Party. Accordingly, Dalseong has always elected members of conservative political parties to represent the constituency in the National Assembly. The constituency has been represented by floor leader of People Power Party Choo Kyung-ho since 2016. Former SsangYong Group CEO Kim Suk-won of the conservative

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was the first member to represent the constituency having won with 62.71% of the vote in the 1996 legislative election. However Kim resigned two years later in 1998 in order to return to the SsangYong Group as CEO. A by-election was held in 1998 between

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of the conservative Grand National Party and Eom Sam-tak of the centrist-liberal National Congress for New Politics, which saw Park win with 62.5% of the vote. Park won re-election in

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with 61.39% of the vote, once again defeating Eom Sam-tak of the Millennium Democratic Party. In the following election, Park won in a landslide with 70.03% of the vote. Park won re-election with a record 88.57% of the vote in

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, receiving the second highest share of votes in the election. Park did not run for re-election in

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, having previously taken over as acting leader of the Grand National Party in December 2011 via a party emergency committee. Former Dalseong County Mayor Lee Jong-jin succeeded Park, having garnered 55.63% of the vote. Ahead of the 2016 election, Lee announced that he would not stand for re-election. He was succeeded by Choo Kyung-ho, who had served as Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance and the Chairman of the Office for Government Policy Coordination under President Park Geun-hye. Choo won re-election to the seat in

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and

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, with 67.33% and 75.31% of the vote respectively. Choo was the only member of the ruling People Power Party to receive more than 100,000 votes in the 2024 legislative election.

Boundaries

The constituency encompass the entirety of

which includes the towns of

Hwawon-eup Hwawon is a town, or '' eup'' in Dalseong County, Daegu, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea alo ...

, Nongong-eup,

Dasa-eup Dasa is a town, or '' eup'' in Dalseong County, Daegu, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea alon ...

, Yuga-eup, Okpo-eup, Hyeonpung-eup, and the townships of

Gachang-myeon Gachang-myeon is a ''myeon'', or township in rural southeastern Daegu, South Korea. Part of Dalseong County, is separated from the urban center of Daegu by the ridgelines of Yongjibong and Apsan. These two mountains are separated by the nar ...

, Habin-myeon, and Guji-myeon. It borders the constituencies of Dalseo B, Jung–Nam, and Suseong B to the north, Goryeong–Seongju–Chilgok to the west, Miryang–Uiryeong–Haman–Changnyeong and Yeongcheon–Cheondo to the south, and

Gyeongsan Gyeongsan (; ) is a satellite city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Its western border abuts the metropolitan city of Daegu, and much of Gyeongsan lies within the Daegu metropolitan area. Numerous universities are located in Gyeongsan, ...

to the east.

List of members of the National Assembly

Election results

2024

2020

2016

2012

2008

2004

2000

1998 (by-election)

1996

References

{{Constituencies in Daegu Constituencies of the National Assembly (South Korea) 1996 establishments in South Korea Constituencies established in 1996