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Latest Bi-Election Results–Another Uri Beating: Uri has lost all 4 seats that were up for grabs, 2 of which changed hands from Uri to GNP. In a likely upset, the far-left Democratic Labor Party appears to have lost a seat in a working-class area of Ulsan to the GNP.

The results almost certainly marked the second successive lockout for President Roh Moo-hyun’s Uri Party in by-elections. In April, six vacant seats were contested; the Grand National Party won five, stripping Uri of its legislative majority. An independent was elected to the sixth seat.

This, in spite of the fact that new rule changes allowed 19 year olds to vote for the first time. Younger voters have generally voted for left-of-center candidates in Korea recently.