민주•시민, 21대 총선 180석 확보…'슈퍼여당' 탄생<br /><br />An unprecedented election held at the height of a global pandemic.<br />Perhaps in part to the government's solid response to the COVID-19 outbreak,... the South Korean public came out in droves on Wednesday to cast their votes for the ruling Democratic Party.<br />The party is set for a landslide victory,... grabbing a solid, outright majority of 180 seats in the 300-seat National Assembly.<br />The opposition bloc had a night to forget and will have to go back to the drawing board to figure out what went wrong.<br />Kim Hyo-sun reports.<br />South Korea's ruling Democratic Party clinched a landslide victory in Wednesday's general election.<br />The coronavirus pandemic did not stop South Koreans flooding to polling stations,... as the nation saw one of its highest ever turnouts for a general election.<br />The Democratic Party and its satellite Civil Together Party, have secured well over the milestone 180 National Assembly seats.<br />This includes 163 directly contested seats and around 17 proportional representation slots.<br />The 180 mark,... three-fifths of the total seats,... is crucial as the ruling party will be able to pass most bills by putting them on a parliamentary fast track even if the opposition parties object.<br />The main opposition United Future Party and its satellite Future Korea Party, on the other hand,... took just over 100 seats in the National Assembly.<br />It won 84 constituencies and secured around 19 proportional representation seats.<br />The minor progressive Justice Party took only one district seat while independent candidates won five seats.<br />With the minor parties failing to clinch more seats through the new election system,... Korea is set to witness an intensified two-party political system.<br />This came as the two large parties created so-called satellite parties to snap up those proportional representation seats.<br />With Wednesday's landslide victory,... the Democratic Party has claimed victory in the last four elections in South Korea.<br />Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.<br />
